Offshore Field Ops Engineer

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.

This role is full time, in person at our facility in Bidarahalli, Bangalore.