Engineer (Formula SAE Track)
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.
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
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $120,000 - $160,000 USD
- Meaningful equity
- Top market salary and bonuses
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily lunch
- Unlimited Celsius
- Dream desk setup
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