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
Production processes that are designed, documented, and stable enough for the floor to run without the design engineer standing next to them DFM feedback delivered early and often, so manufacturability is settled before a design hardens — and design changes that reach the floor without breaking it
What they're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Mechatronics, or a related engineering field
- 3+ years in manufacturing engineering, with a track record of launching assembly line processes, equipment, and/or new products
- Demonstrated process development experience — processes you designed, documented, and put into production
- Strong DFM fundamentals, applied in direct partnership with design engineering
- Experience taking electromechanical or mechatronic products from prototype into production, including electronics assembly and functional test
- Experience designing functional test fixtures and test protocols
More about this role
WindBorne is an atypical hardware company: we sell the data our balloons produce, not the balloons. Our customer is our own operations team, which puts engineering and the field about as close together as they can get. We push design changes to flying hardware roughly once a week while scaling production at the same time.
Today every part of that loop is owned by full-stack engineers who each design a part, own its tooling, and tweak it based on field performance. That has worked so far, but manufacturing throughput and tooling maintenance have grown into a full-time load that can no longer share a desk with design iteration. This role exists to take that load.
Manufacturing and Production turns engineering designs into repeatable, high-quality production. We build mechatronic hardware assemblies — PCBA, electronic sensors, ballast, and an adjustable inflatable balloon.
Boards arrive populated from our suppliers. On our floor, we assemble the PCBAs into the electronics assembly, test it, and then build up the mechanical hardware, ballast, and balloon around it. The work is manual to semi-automated, and it has to hold together while the designs underneath it keep changing.
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