Offshore Field Ops Engineer
Website Alteon Energy
Building airplanes that fly for ~417 days.
About Alteon
The Wright Brothers gave humanity flight, Alteon exists to give humanity (almost) perpetual
flight. Our mission is to build the world’s highest endurance aircrafts – ones that can fly for
up to ~417 days at a time.
We are a small, young team driven by pushing the limits of what’s possible – we don’t like
settling for good enough. We are here to build the best technology possible, the best
airplane possible, to do the best engineering possible. Limited only by the laws of physics.
About the role
As an Offshore Field Ops Engineer at Alteon, you will be a part of the team that makes it
possible for our aircraft to fly offshore. You’ll spend your time between a boat out at sea and
the office solving a variety of problems from weather prediction to building the infra to land
the aircraft on a boat to measuring and predicting wave heights. You will be expected to
develop domain expertise on the fly depending on what the week demands. This is the role
for you if you are excited by the idea of spending days at sea, and solving truly complex
problems for which there is no guidebook.
What you’ll do
– Design and build the infrastructure to launch and recover aircraft from a boat.
– Build the systems and processes to forecast weather and predict wave heights, and
turn that data into go/no-go calls for flight ops.
– Run offshore flight test campaigns end-to-end – plan the mission, deploy to sea,
execute, and bring the data back.
– Take what breaks at sea back to the team and communicate failure modes so the
next deployment goes further.
Skills & competencies
– You have gotten your hands dirty building airplanes, cars, robots or anything else that
has had to survive the real world.
– You have a first-principles understanding of how aircrafts work.
– You are proficient in CAD (Fusion 360, Solidworks, etc) and comfortable taking a part
from sketch to build.
– You are comfortable operating in unforgiving field conditions – at sea, in bad weather,
with limited tools, on tight timelines.
– Bonus: you know how to fly fixed-wing aircrafts.
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