Forward Deployed Operator

Job summary

apply now Win*** is supercharging weather forecasts with a unique proprietary data source: a global constellation of next-generation smart weather balloons targeting the most critical atmospheric data. We design, manufacture, and operate our own balloons, using the data they collect to generate otherwise unattainable weather intelligence.

Benefits

Qualifications

• When a procedure doesn't exist, you write it instead of waiting to be told it's your job.
• Youlike keeping a lot of balls in the air, and you’re ready to dive into anything that needs to bedone.
• Genuine curiosity about how the world works.
• The job involves balloons, atmosphericscience, radio, airspace, and defense tech — you don't need a background in any ofthese, but you should find them interesting enough to want to learn.
• You can sit across from a customer who's never encountered our tech, and help themunderstand and trust the operations you’ve carried out.
• The constellation team is thepart of ops that is in itself a product, and it matters how we present ourselves andcommunicate with external collaborators.
• Comfort with uncertainty and shifting priorities.
• Procedures evolve, hardware changes,customers reprioritize.
• You're someone who finds this energizing rather than exhausting.

Responsibilities

• You'll own end-to-end operational performance across a rotating set of projects.
• In a givenmonth, you might:
• Coordinate the operational rollout of new hardware, like ocean sensing buoys or radioground stations
• Identify recurring bugs that affect performance constellation-wide
• Travel all over the world to carry out unusual operations – whether that’s sloggingthrough a swamp in Alabama to recover a balloon, or setting up a temporary launch siteon an island in rural Scotland
• The work varies widely.
• Some weeks you're heads-down on documentation and tooling; otherweeks you're trying to shepherd a cluster of twenty balloons across the Pacific.
• Most weeks aresomewhere in between.

Work schedule

Travel

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