We’re looking for a highly organized, proactive, and resourceful Chief of Staff to support our CEO and leadership team. You will work directly with our CEO, John Dean, to take on the company’s highest leverage strategic and operational challenges. You will act as a force multiplier executing on priorities with high autonomy and a bias for action. The ability to “branch-predict”: align on principles and develop a mental model of John to unblock yourself and anticipate answers to questions.
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If you're a great meteorologist or engineer, or just plain talented, WindBorne wants to hire you.
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We are a small team handling all the software that keeps our entire constellation in the air. Development speed and robustness/security/stability are not mutually exclusive; we value pragmatic decisions, high autonomy, low egos, and a willingness to get your hands muddy in the dirt. This is a 24/7 uptime system and the heartbeat of the company. You will have immediate ownership and the opportunity to proactively drive software solutions with our hardware, operations, and flight control teams.
WindBorne is looking for an Embedded Electrical Engineer to run hardware design, initial bringup, hardware debug, and manufacturing support of a number of key elements of our flight hardware and ground support systems. We're seeking someone who can jump between PCB design in the morning, debugging firmware in the afternoon, and searching DigiKey at night; someone who finds satisfaction in making things work in theory, in practice, and at scale, and in running through those stages as quickly as PCBA turnaround times permit.
WindBorne is looking for an Embedded Electrical Engineer to run hardware design, initial bringup, hardware debug, and manufacturing support of a number of key elements of our flight hardware and ground support systems. We're seeking someone who can jump between PCB design in the morning, debugging firmware in the afternoon, and searching DigiKey at night; someone who finds satisfaction in making things work in theory, in practice, and at scale, and in running through those stages as quickly as PCBA turnaround times permit.
WindBorne is looking for a Firmware Wizard to own our entire firmware stack. As a vertically integrated weather company, we design, calibrate, & integrate our own custom sensors & control mechanisms into our autonomous balloons. This poses some unique challenges: most components are outside their temperature spec, power is extremely limited and it is not easy to update code when the system is many miles in the air. We believe the most interesting work happens at the intersection of hardware and software, where clever code can compensate for physical limitations. In this role, you’ll design and run experiments to understand the behaviors of our system in weird conditions, then cosplay as a 1960s NASA engineer to glean insight from the limited data available. You’ll own firmware strategy, making quick, tactical decisions on whether to vomit some code for a janky test or design a robust solution that will accelerate future development. From maintaining our custom RTOS and hardware abstraction layer to developing the driver interfaces for our suite of atmospheric sensors, you'll be solving fascinating challenges alongside a team of brilliant, passionate engineers who are revolutionizing our understanding of the atmosphere.
Are you someone who: - Enjoys building deep expertise in complex systems - Thrives without a reliable script to follow - Is interested in building real-world-applicable intuitions for wind patterns and forecasts? Then you might be a good fit for WindBorne’s Flight Control Operator role!
We're hiring a Senior Full-Stack / Security Software Engineer to own core, security-forward infrastructure. You will be responsible for building up robust systems that can handle business-critical needs around data delivery, flight tracking, and other operational demands. You must become fluent with working with government-compliant requirements as you will be the core owner ensuring internal systems are able to serve our growing contractual obligations.
In this role, you will also have the unique opportunity to learn how the world really works. Weather deeply impacts a multitude of critical industries, and an even wider range of professions. You will be on the front lines of customer discovery, peeling back the layers of modern society & global infrastructure to identify hidden hair-on-fire problems and scope opportunities for WindBorne.
We are hiring a part-time balloon launch contractor to support our weather forecasting mission. You'll be launching high-altitude weather balloons that collect atmospheric data used to improve forecasts for events like hurricanes and wildfires. The role is hands-on and outdoors, with shifts on weekends, evenings, and occasional weekdays.
We are hiring a part-time balloon launch contractor based in the Virginia Beach, VA area to support our weather forecasting mission. You'll be launching high-altitude weather balloons that collect atmospheric data used to improve forecasts for events like hurricanes and wildfires. The role is hands-on and outdoors, with flexible hours — approximately 10–20 hours per week, depending on the company's launch needs — across evenings, weekdays, and weekends.
We are hiring a part-time balloon launch operator to support our weather forecasting mission. You'll be launching high-altitude weather balloons that collect atmospheric data used to improve forecasts for events like hurricanes and wildfires. The role is hands-on and outdoors, with shifts on weekends, evenings, and occasional weekdays.
We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own government implementations across multiple WindBorne software platforms. You'll be the technical bridge between our core technology and government customers, ensuring our systems meet rigorous compliance standards while delivering exceptional value. This role requires equal parts technical depth, attention to regulatory detail, and customer communication skills.
WindBorne builds AI weather models that run 24/7, producing global forecasts every 20 minutes. Our research team is small and moves fast, but too much of their time goes to operationalization and infra firefighting instead of model development. We need someone to fix that.
We are looking for a broadly capable ML researcher and engineer who is passionate about machine learning and excited to push our models forward. We care more about your ability to identify important problems and make progress on them than whether your previous work fits a particular specialty.
WindBorne builds AI weather models that run 24/7, producing global forecasts every 20 minutes. Our technology creates research opportunities that do not arrive as clean benchmark problems: a customer needs a forecast tailored to a new decision, a government partner poses a difficult technical question, or a new dataset might improve performance in a domain we have never tested. We need someone who can take an underspecified, high-value problem and drive it from first conversation through research prototype and convincing result.
We need someone with excellent scientific taste to determine where our models excel, where they fail, and which results we should trust. You will work at the intersection of machine learning and meteorology, combining fast analyses with robust systems that make future research faster and more reliable.
WindBorne is seeking a Meteorological Scientist to contribute to the improvement of weather forecasting and observational analyses. As a member of the weather team, you’ll incorporate WindBorne’s unique state-of-the-art balloon constellation observations into the most advanced weather prediction systems. You’ll work with our team of scientists, engineers and flight controllers to influence the collection and use of observations from start to finish, beginning with balloon flight and ending with insights to help consumers, businesses and governments adapt to changing weather and climate.
The constellation team keeps our fleet flying and decides where it goes. Day to day, most of our work centers on the 1% of edge cases—the novel, the weird, the unpredictable—and serves two functions: it's a testing ground where edge cases surface bugs and validate new capabilities, and it's forward-deployed customer work where new features get demoed to and studied directly with customers in a hands-on way. It's an unusually wide surface area, and we're hiring someone to own a meaningful slice of it.
WindBorne is looking for a Production Manager to oversee the manufacturing line, ensuring smooth daily operations and meeting production targets. In this role, you will lead the technician team, proactively manage workflow efficiency, and serve as the first point of contact for troubleshooting and resolving production challenges. Your leadership will be essential in maintaining quality, optimizing processes, and driving the team toward achieving monthly production goals.
This is an atypical position: most hardware isn’t at design lock, but we produce it at volume (currently 1,000 units a month, doubling every six months). We need someone to make decisions on which parts of a design are stable enough to tool up and document, and which need to stay flexible, as well as the engineering rigor to build repeatable, sustainable production around a moving target. If that seems exciting, this job might be for you.
WindBorne is looking for a Web Handling/Film Converting Expert who knows exactly what those terms mean and why they matter. We need to scale our balloon manufacturing process to meet demand, and we believe your expertise in handling thin films at industrial scales is exactly what we need. If you've spent years wrestling with web tension control systems, designing nip rollers, or optimizing film handling processes, we want your expertise.
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