About the role
We’re looking for a hands-on RC aircraft builder/pilot to help us get a custom shaped blimp inflatable (LTA + tilt-rotor VTOL) flying outdoors.
This is a 2-4 week, full-time, on-site contract focused on real flight and simulation. You’ll be working directly on a non-standard aircraft with custom control mixing, thrust vectoring, and field testing.
What you’ll be doing
- ArduPilot Plane on Pixhawk Cube Orange
- Custom mixer logic, and programming (tilt rotors, nonstandard geometry)
- Full avionics integration (GPS, telemetry, power, ESCs, servos)
- Failsafes (RC/GPS/telemetry loss, etc.)
- Hands-on wiring (crimping, soldering, looms)
- Managing physics simulations to tune with hardware in the loop
- Outdoor flight testing + piloting
You should have
- Built, wired, programmed, and flown your own RC aircraft
- Strong ArduPilot / Pixhawk experience
- Experience with unusual configs (VTOL, vectored thrust, etc.)
- Comfort debugging hardware + control issues in the field
To apply
Send links/photos of 3+ aircraft you’ve personally built and flown
About Buoyant Aero
Bringing back blimps
Required skills
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Job details
Salary
$20 - $50
Location
New York, NY
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Total raised
$125K
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Joseph Figura
Founder
Benjamin Claman
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.