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Composite Manufacturing Technician - Fiberglass and Carbon Fiber
We're looking for a hands-on Composite Manufacturing Technician to build the fiberglass and carbon-fiber structures that go on WingXpand's aircraft and ground and maritime robots. Composites are your focus — prepping and releasing tooling, laying up and bagging parts, and finishing them to a Class A, production-ready state. The parts you pull have to repeat, so we care as much about consistency and root-cause thinking as we do about craftsmanship. We're also looking for someone who wants to be useful across the whole shop. At our size, the best technicians don't stay in one lane. You'll receive training to support robotic assembly tasks — building up airframes, integrating subassemblies, and helping get finished systems out the door — and you'll pick up whatever else manufacturing needs as we scale. If you'd rather do one job forever, this isn't the right fit. If you want to keep adding skills, it's a good one. That breadth is also the growth path. We're building out our manufacturing operation now, and there's real room here to move up — into owning the composites process, setting the finish standard, writing the work instructions the next techs follow, or leading a production area. We'd rather promote someone who already knows how we build than hire over them. If you take pride in a surface that's actually right and want to see your work fly, this role is for you.
Staff Robotics Software Engineer
Three robots, one autonomy stack. Our backpackable smart plane drone, unmanned ground vehicle, and unmanned surface vessel all run the same xPAIR robotic core, which means the autonomy you write has to hold up in the air, on the ground, and on the water — with payloads and detections moving between vehicles rather than being re-integrated for each one. Most autonomy roles are one airframe in one domain. This isn't. We're looking for a Staff Robotics Software Engineer to own significant parts of that core. Hands-on individual contributor with an architecture mandate: you'll decide what belongs in the shared core and what stays vehicle-specific, where the open-source flight stack ends and our own code begins, and how the interfaces hold as we add systems. Then you'll write the hard parts yourself. Code you write today is on a vehicle testing in the field tomorrow. Small team, no layer between you and the founders, no queue to get a decision made. If you've built autonomy for vehicles that actually fly or drive, you'll be at home here. We're also happy to talk to a strong engineer from an adjacent field that's excited to build robotics. If you've spent your career writing C++ for physical machines, whether that's industrial control, automotive, medical devices, or real-time embedded, let's connect.
Lead UAS Pilot and Trainer
We're hiring our Lead UAS Pilot and Trainer — the person who owns how our robots get operated, how everyone else learns to operate them, and how we show up in front of customers. You'll be the senior operator in the company across all three domains. Most of your time is on the aircraft, but our ground vehicle and surface vessel run the same core, and you'll be operating and teaching those too. That means being in the field: flying and driving demonstrations at military installations, standing up training for Army, SOF, and public safety operators, and running our own test sorties. It also means owning the program behind the flying — standardization, currency, the training syllabus, the operations manual, and the qualification standards every operator we field is held to. When a customer asks who certifies that our crews are ready, that's you. The other half of this job is customer-facing, and we want to be straight about what that means. You'll be in front of program offices and units at industry events, capability demonstrations, exercises, and operational experimentation venues — some of those are a conference hall, some are a range in the middle of nowhere. You'll brief capability and help write the proposals that turn a good demonstration into a contract. If the word "sales" makes you wince, we understand — and the reason we want an operator in this seat rather than a salesperson is that the best person to explain these systems to a squad leader is someone who has run them in bad weather at four in the morning. You won't be pitching a product you don't understand. You'll be telling other operators the truth about systems you use yourself, including what they don't do yet. This role is based at our Schaumburg facility, twenty minutes from O'Hare — which for a job with this much travel beats being near almost any installation. You'll also work in the same building as the engineers who design and build the aircraft. That's rare in this industry, where the operators are usually in one place and the product team is somewhere else, and it's the difference between filing feedback and walking it over to the person who can act on it. Add Midwest cost of living and the offer goes considerably further here than the same number does in San Diego, Dallas, or Northern Virginia. If you've spent a career moving every few years, this is somewhere you can buy a house and stay. The person who does well here is still curious. You'll sit next to the engineers who design and build these aircraft, and the ones who thrive in this role spend as much time asking why the autopilot did that as they do running the syllabus. If you care more about whether an operator can actually use the thing at 0300 with cold hands than about whether the demo looked clean, and you want a hand in fixing what doesn't work rather than explaining it away, this is the right seat. If you've come out of a UAS operator, standardization, or instructor billet, you'll be at home here. This is a role with ownership rather than another seat on someone else's training contract — if you've spent years running a syllabus you didn't write and wanted to write your own, this is that job.
Electrical Engineer - Robotics
An early career electrical engineer with experience in PCB (Printed Circuit Board) development, prototyping, electrical design, and system troubleshooting. The successful candidate will support efforts to design, develop, and refine electronic systems that meet our rigorous standards for quality and innovation. This position will work closely with WingXpand's senior engineers.
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