Flight Test Engineer
About the role
Voltair is building the world’s first distributed network of drones for earth observation. The Flight Test Engineer role combines hands-on hardware work with field operations to build, validate, and deploy flight hardware for customer missions, traveling roughly one week per month.
Responsibilities
- Build and validate test fixtures and hardware for flying drones.
- Operate a 54lb fixed-wing aircraft in the field.
- Deploy drones for customer contracts and large enterprise deployments.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, and operations teams; represent Voltair in the field.
Qualifications
- Has built drones in hobby or professional setting and understands electrical systems on drones
- Experience with autopilot firmware (ArduPilot, PX4, or similar)
- 1+ years of related professional experience
- Good instincts for airmanship and risk management
Skills
About Voltair
Autonomous Drones for Earth Observation
Voltair is building the world's first globally distributed network of autonomous drones for Earth observation. Power utilities are the perfect first customer. Aging infrastructure and extreme weather drive the need for millimeter-scale inspection data on the power grid. Utilities spend tens of billions of dollars every year just looking at their own equipment. Autonomous drone fleets will enable utilities to inspect 7 million miles of infrastructure more frequently, quickly, and accurately. Our long-range, weatherized flying robots work with charging pads installed directly on utility poles. Each new pad unlocks 1000 square miles of coverage. With a charging network deployed on the power grid, we can serve existing multi-billion dollar data markets in road, rail and telecom inspection at 10x lower prices while enabling entirely new applications in hyperlocal weather monitoring, forestry, construction, search & rescue, and insurance. We envision a future in which drone "instances" are requested on-demand through our platform, enabling any application builder to serve these critical markets without ever operating their own hardware.
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