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Founding Mechanical Engineer

Voltair
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/29/2026
Build the exoskeleton for a drone that routinely lands on 500kV.

We build drones that recharge on power lines. The grid is everywhere. This allows our drones to collect spatial data anywhere. Think: unlimited range drones.

Today, Voltair operates as a full-stack inspection service for power utilities.

  • Half the team runs field operations: driving trucks, flying drones, coordinating inspections, and selling the service.
  • The other half builds the drone hardware and autonomy software that make this possible.

Role

  • Faraday Cage Design machined aluminum components to shield avionics from 20kV/m electric fields.
  • Dynamics Integrate the aluminum faraday cage with CF components and perform resonant analysis of the structure.
  • Landing Mechanism Contribute to the development the clamping mechanism that enables Voltair’s drones to reliably perch and charge on on power lines. Test for reliability.
  • Destructive Testing Crash drones and quantify battery puncture hazards. Expose drones 1M volts.

Skills

  • Design for Manufacturing
  • FEA
  • CAD (Solidworks/Oneshape)
  • Reliability Testing

Salary : $100,000 - $200,000

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