What you will be doingDrone racing and FPV heritage is an integral part of our company's DNA. As an FPV Evangelist at Neros, you will enhance the company's proficiency in FPV. You will build and maintain the company's program for the FPV fly-through course and host FPV workshops. This program is geared for employees and may be used to also educate customers/VIP's onsite. You will be in charge of your dream FPV lab, and will have the resources to build hobby FPV drones at an enterprise scale.
Responsibilities- Build and maintain a fleet of drones and support equipment
- Work with leadership to maintain a regular schedule of hosting "open FPV course" sessions and special events (races, demos, etc.)
- Create FPV curriculum courses i.e. repair workshops, soldering, Betaflight how-to setup
- Record keeping of employees' progress
- Will work with leadership on approved sign-up sheets for "open practice" times, special events, and course enrollments
- Design and maintain the actual FPV track which users will fly
- Gates/flags/led FPV course
- Timing system: rotorhazard, immersion/livetime experience warranted
- Maintain FPV sim setup - design virtual track that mimics live track for practice
- This role may be asked to assist in other tasks in the factory
You should have the following- 4+ years of experience in building and racing FPV drones
- Mentorship or teaching experience, excellent communicator- must have the ability to create presentations and the ability to teach
- FPV race experience - track design and race ops experience to build a race course and host race events with timing system
- Part 107
- FPV acro piloting skills - FPV/LOS - live demo and Velocidrone demo
- Soldering - skills required to build consumer FPV drone
- Betaflight programming knowledge
- Assembly skills- ability to put together FPV drone parts without instructions
Nice to have- CAD/3D printing
- Blackbox tuning
- Advanced solder skills: hot-air rework
US Salary Range$73,000 - $120,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Neros' total compensation package.
