Job Description
WindBorne is an atypical hardware company insomuch as we sell the data produced by our balloons rather than the balloons ourselves. Because of this, we have a very tight loop between engineering and our customers (our own internal operations), and so can push design changes to the field on the order of once per week while simultaneously scaling production. Right now, every part of that process is owned by a team of full-stack engineers, each of whom designs a part, owns its tooling, and makes tweaks to improve performance in the field. This has worked thus far but won’t scale because the load of caring about manufacturing throughput and tooling maintenance has grown large enough that it cannot coexist with design iterations. We’re hiring our first manufacturing engineer (you) to change that.
WindBorne’s manufacturing is a manual-to-semi-automated environment built around delicate hand assembly (soft goods, heat-sealed plastics, and light soldering). You will enter WindBorn...