Production Engineer, Near Space Labs
Stratospheric Robots
5 days a week in office
Aerial imagery and earth observation
Job no longer available
Aerial imagery and earth observation
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To democratize high-quality geospatial intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in a hardware production environment
- Hands-on experience with design, manufacturing or test processes in Robotics, Aeronautics, Drones, Auto, IoT, or a similar field containing hardware and embedded software
- Degree in engineering; industrial, production, mechanical, electronics or similar
- Hands-on experience with fast prototyping and manufacturing desirable (3D printers, CNC routers)
- Mission-oriented and focused on accomplishing goals autonomously
- Not afraid of using a screwdriver yourself when necessary
What the job involves
- We are looking for a proactive and resourceful Production Engineer to help ramp up our manufacturing floor in Barcelona, Spain
- His position reports directly to the Head of Manufacturing and works closely with our Fleet Performance and R&D teams
- Design our manufacturing space for optimal workflows
- Improve manufacturing manuals and setup quality processes
- Support the training and development of the assembly technicians in charge of building our aerial robots
- Analyze performance bottlenecks and sourcing strategies to maximize manufacturing output
- Select and help set up machinery and equipment
- Collaborate closely with the other engineering teams to identify areas with the potential to improve manufacturing processes and/or reliability
- You will be part of an enthusiastic, international and motivated team of professionals who are committed to building unique technologies, being rigorous, and finding novel solutions to interesting problems
Our take
Near Space Labs provides customers with high-res imagery of the earth. The twist is, this isn’t satellite imagery, but imagery collected by a zero-emission fleet of wind-powered weather balloons, each one able to capture up to 1,000 square kilometres of imagery on each flight. This makes for an eco-friendly, low-cost alternative to satellite imagery and results in images up to 50 times clearer than those collected by satellite.
The company just raised $20M to expand its helium balloon-powered Swift aircraft. This funding will help it grow its coverage across the US and support industries like insurance and agriculture with clearer, cheaper aerial imagery.
This puts Near Space in an exciting position to offer wide-scale, high-res coverage while staying eco-friendly. Its zero-emission tech and simple design make it a smart, sustainable alternative to drones and satellites, showing how clean innovation can scale and make a real-world impact.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2025
$20m
SERIES B
Sep 2021
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33m
Company HQ
Brooklyn Navy Yard, NY
Leadership
Rema Matevosyan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Software Developer with InnoRise, then at the Institute for System Programming of Russian Academy of Sciences. Subsequently held a junior research fellowship at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
Ignasi Lluch
(Co-Founder & CTO)Worked on the Galileo Evolutions Team at the European Space Agency, and then as a Space Systems Engineering Researcher at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology.
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