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Engineer (Formula SAE Track)

120k – 160kEl Segundo, CAHardware EngineeringOnsiteEntry level
Summary

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.

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

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
Skills
Mechanical EngineeringCADFEAMachiningAvionicsEmbedded SystemsGNCPower ElectronicsBattery SystemsHardware Testing
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