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WindBorne Systems
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Builder Fellowship

Brief overview

Redwood City, CAIn-person
$40k/yrStated minimum
Sponsors visasStated in posting
4 H-1B approvalsDept. of Labor
Turning ideas into realityBias towards action and shipping quicklyCommunication with peopleDesign sketching and prototypingWriting and pushing codeProblem-solving across different scopes and domainsFast iteration and high-impact deliveryIn-person collaboration and teamwork

About the company

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WindBorne Systemswindbornesystems.com

WindBorne collects atmospheric data using smart weather balloons for weather forecasting, climate research, and environmental monitoring.

Visa sponsorship history

2 years sponsoring, last filed FY2025

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4H-1B approved
100%approval rate
4new H-1B hires
H-1B Petition ApprovalsVisas USCIS actually granted: the strongest sign the company sponsors.
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Job description

Summary

WindBorne Systems is offering a 6-month Builder Fellowship program designed for multidisciplinary builders eager to leave a mark on innovative technology. Participants will rotate through various roles in a rapidly growing startup, gaining hands-on experience and building a substantial portfolio of work from day one.

Responsibilities

  • Will do anything and everything to turn ideas into reality
  • Has a bias towards action and ships on Day 1
  • Is not precious about ideas, but has a lot of them
  • Is willing to talk to people, draw out designs, and push code
  • You will ship things on day one, and your work will have an immediate and trackable impact
  • You will have rotated around the innards of our rapidly growing startup, solving different scopes of problems with different types of execution
  • You will act with high amounts of agency and rarely ask for permission
  • You will exit having rotated around the innards of a rapidly growing startup. You will not be a country bumpkin, you will understand how companies work and how work gets done
  • You will exit with real work experience and well-calibrated intuitions and taste
  • You will exit having gotten experience with a wide variety of work. Different scopes of problems and also different types of execution. You will have a clear thesis of what work exists and what you enjoy
  • You will exit with a huge portfolio of work. You will ship things on day one, and your work will have clear, immediate, and trackable impact

Skills

  • Desire to leave a mark on the world's first planetary nervous system
  • Ability to turn ideas into reality
  • Bias towards action and ships on Day 1
  • Willingness to talk to people, draw out designs, and push code
  • Driven by speed, impact, and pace of growth
  • Excited to find out what work looks like in the future
  • Ability to rotate around the company, solving real problems both internal and customer facing
  • Experience with a wide variety of work and different scopes of problems
  • Ability to ship things on day one with clear, immediate, and trackable impact
  • Willingness to come in 5 days a week, in-person in Redwood City

Qualifications

Must Haves

  • Desire to leave a mark on the world's first planetary nervous system
  • Ability to turn ideas into reality
  • Bias towards action and ships on Day 1
  • Willingness to talk to people, draw out designs, and push code
  • Driven by speed, impact, and pace of growth
  • Excited to find out what work looks like in the future
  • Ability to rotate around the company, solving real problems both internal and customer facing
  • Experience with a wide variety of work and different scopes of problems
  • Ability to ship things on day one with clear, immediate, and trackable impact
  • Willingness to come in 5 days a week, in-person in Redwood City

Benefits

  • WindBorne will provide immigration and sponsorship support based on an individual’s unique circumstances.
  • Office food and beverages (minimum 2x catered lunches & dinners a week)
  • Potential to convert to full-time, with all associated benefits
  • WindBorne will provide immigration and sponsorship support based on an individual’s unique circumstances

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