Temporary Radio Meteorologist Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
WindBorne Systems is supercharging weather forecasts with a unique proprietary data source: a global constellation of next-generation smart weather balloons. The Mission Operations Specialist will own end-to-end operational performance across various projects, coordinating with engineering, manufacturing, and customers to ensure successful operations and data collection.
Responsibilities:
• Run point on a military exercise — coordinating with engineering on tech readiness, manufacturing on hardware volume, and the Flight Control team on in-flight priorities ,then closing the loop with the customer on results
• Coordinate the operational rollout of new hardware, like ocean sensing buoys or radio ground stations
• Identify recurring bugs that affect performance constellation-wide
• Oversee our constellation’s response to a newly-appeared tropical storm – gathering the most interesting data while ensuring avoidance of other meteorological aircraft in the region, creating visualizations of our findings and communicating them to others
• Travel all over the world to carry out unusual operations – whether that’s slogging through a swamp in Alabama to recover a balloon, or setting up a temporary launch site on an island in rural Scotland
Qualifications:
Required:
• When a procedure doesn't exist, you write it instead of waiting to be told it's your job.
• You like keeping a lot of balls in the air, and you’re ready to dive into anything that needs to be done.
• Genuine curiosity about how the world works.
• The job involves balloons, atmospheric science, radio, airspace, and defense tech — you don't need a background in any of these, 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 them understand and trust the operations you’ve carried out.
• Comfort with uncertainty and shifting priorities.
• Procedures evolve, hardware changes, customers reprioritize.
• You're someone who finds this energizing rather than exhausting.
Company:
WindBorne collects atmospheric data using smart weather balloons for weather forecasting, climate research, and environmental monitoring. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Stanford, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.