Project Overview
Project Description
Balloon Tech Co. (BTC) utilizes a high-altitude platform to capture earth observation data, with a current focus on serving as an early warning system for wildfire detection. There are two possibilities to support this project:
- Option 1: Candidates located outside of San Francisco, working remotely (software engineering focus): work on improving aspects of the data pipeline or services, in improving post-processing or improving the relay of data to customers. The fellow would support the systems for receiving information captured by the balloon payload, relaying it to BTC and clients, and improving usability for clients.
- Option 2: Candidates located in San Francisco and available to work in-person (mechanical engineering focus): work on testing and improving the components of a sensor suite for the balloon payload. The fellow would help to increase payload efficiency to stay under project costs.
Impact
The UN Report “Spreading like Wildfire.” projects a 14 percent increase in wildfires over the next eight years, and a 30 percent increase by 2050. Balloon Tech Co. prevents the human and ecological destruction associated with uncontained burning of agriculture and forests through High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) and precision data capture. Through early detection and real time alerts, BTC helps put an end to megafires which protects wildlife biodiversity, vulnerable global communities, and public health.
Eligibility Criteria
Skills / Experience
- Required:
- CAD Modeling
- CAD Rendering
- Control Systems + Systems Design / Analysis
- Electronics Design, Prototyping, and Testing
- Prototyping / Fast Prototyping
- Desired:
- Programming experience, image processing (or processing of high resolution and high volumes of data).
Discipline:
- Electro-mechanical engineering for project option 1. Software engineering / computer science for project option 2.
Preferred fellow location (all projects can be completed remotely):
- Any, but San Francisco-based preferred
Time zone compatibility (when the Fellow should be available for meetings):
- PDT (UTC-7)
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