WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in the atmosphere. Backed by Khosla and Pear VC.
About the role
You'll own end-to-end operational performance across a rotating set of projects. In a givenmonth, you might: Run point on a military exercise — coordinating with engineering on tech readiness, manufacturing on hardware volume, and the Flight Control team on in-flight priorities ,then closing the loop with the customer on results
What they're looking for
- When a procedure doesn't exist, you write it instead of waiting to be told it's your job. You like keeping a lot of balls in the air, and you’re ready to dive into anything that needs to be done
- Genuine curiosity about how the world works. The job involves balloons, atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech — you don't need a background in any of these, but you should find them interesting enough to want to learn
- Comfort with uncertainty and shifting priorities. Procedures evolve, hardware changes, customers reprioritize. You're someone who finds this energizing rather than exhausting
More about this role
WindBorne Systems is supercharging weather forecasts with a unique proprietary data source: a global constellation of next-generation smart weather balloons targeting the most critical atmospheric data. We design, manufacture, and operate our own balloons, using the data they collect to generate otherwise unattainable weather intelligence.
Our mission is to eliminate weather uncertainty, and in the process help humanity adapt to climate change, be that predicting hurricanes or speeding the adoption of renewables. We are building a future in which the planet is instrumented by thousands of our microballoons, eliminating gaps in our understanding of the planet and giving people and businesses the information they need to make critical decisions.
The constellation team keeps our fleet flying and decides where it goes. Day to day, most of our work centers on the 1% of edge cases—the novel, the weird, the unpredictable—and serves two functions: it's a testing ground where edge cases surface bugs and validate new capabilities, and it's forward-deployed customer work where new features get demoed to and studied directly with customers in a hands-on way. It's an unusually wide surface...
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