Formula SAE builder role designing, building, and flying lightweight mechanical subsystems for solar-powered stratospheric aircraft. Requires hands-on hardware experience, grit, and willingness to own subsystems end-to-end from concept to flight.
120k – 160k/yr
On-siteEntry levelHardware Engineering
About the role
What you’ll do
Design and fly lightweight, high-reliability structures for stratospheric aircraft
Own mechanical subsystems from concept to flight
Perform first-principles sizing, trade studies, and rapid iteration
Build, test, break, and refine flight hardware
Support integration, production, and flight operations
Work closely with avionics, GNC, power, RF, and software teams
What we’re looking for
Formula SAE experience
Recent grad, soon-to-graduate student, or exceptional student willing to take a break from school to join a startup
Evidence that you have built real hardware, not just worked on presentations
High grit, high urgency, high ownership
Strong mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, or systems instincts
Willingness to learn anything required to get the aircraft flying
Comfortable working hands-on in a factory, lab, desert, field environment, or wherever the mission requires
Able to take feedback, improve quickly, and keep pushing
No ego about doing dirty work
Obsessed with building, testing, learning, and getting better
Bonus points
You owned a subsystem on a Formula SAE car
You manufactured parts yourself
You stayed late to debug problems before competition
You wired harnesses, machined parts, tuned systems, ran tests, or fixed failures in the field
You have CAD, FEA, machining, avionics, embedded systems, GNC, power electronics, batteries, or test experience
You have a story about something breaking and how you fixed it
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