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title: 'Crew Chief (UAV) at Precision AI'
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# Crew Chief (UAV) at Precision AI

- **Company:** Precision AI
- **Location:** Calgary, Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/precision-ai/am9icG9zdDqvITgW1vu_6m0wYug1pufg

## Job description

## About Precision AI

Precision AI is on a mission to transform agriculture with cutting-edge drone technology. Our aerial spraying systems help farmers target weeds with surgical precision, reducing chemical use and increasing yields. We’re a fast-moving, impact-driven team looking for people who want to help build the future of farming.

## Role Overview

The Crew Chief is a critical operator on the front lines of deploying one of Canada’s most complex large-scale UAV systems, and the world’s first autonomous parafoil. You’ll be responsible for executing in-field operations with precision, ensuring every mission runs safely, efficiently, and without compromise. Based in Calgary, this role puts you at the center of flight operations across Alberta, Canada, and the United States.

In the field, you play a key role in keeping missions running smoothly. You’ll lead site setup, oversee AirSprayer (UAV) readiness, conduct rigorous pre-flight inspections, and ensure all equipment and personnel are prepared for execution. During agricultural spray operations, you’ll serve as the on-site point of coordination, solving problems in real time, maintaining operational tempo, and supporting consistent, high-quality execution.

This role is built for someone who thrives in high-responsibility, hands-on environments; someone who takes pride in disciplined execution, technical systems, and making complex operations look seamless.

You should expect to spend 50–75% of your time in the field, with deployments typically lasting 2 weeks at a time. Field schedules are intensive, often requiring 12+ hour days and weekend work, following a 2-weeks-on, 1-week-off rotation.

## Key Responsibilities

- Field Deployment & Gear Management- Coordinate drone setup, fueling, maintenance, and teardown at spray locations
- Conduct thorough pre-flight inspections and troubleshoot issues on-site
- Maintain drone and ground support equipment, ensuring operational readiness
- Crew Support- Support ground crew and communicate clearly across flight teams
- Manage on-the-ground logistics and keep mission timelines on track
- Support new operator onboarding and informal field training
- Operational Execution- Log and document daily flights, inspections, and performance data
- Collaborate with engineering and ops teams to improve field protocols
- Ensure safety standards are followed and report incidents as needed

Relevant Experience (Ideal Candidate Background)

- Served as Crew Chief or UAV operator for drone-based field operations
- Conducted pre-flight inspections and equipment checks in a regulated or safety-critical environment
- Managed logistics and transportation of aerial systems or sensitive gear
- Hands-on experience with UAVs, electronics, or field service equipment
- Supported multi-person crews in agricultural, industrial, or logistics-based settings

## What You Bring

- 2+ years of experience with hands-on UAV operations or technical support
- Background in drone maintenance, repair, or pre-flight inspections
- Strong work ethic, adaptability, and comfort working outdoors in rural/agricultural environments
- Familiarity with tools, warehouse logistics, and equipment handling
- Active passport, driver's license, and any other applicable drone licenses

Bonus Points

- Soldering, CAD/CAM, or technical service experience a plus
- Part 137 or 135 certified

## About Precision AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Precision AI develops autonomous drone systems powered by artificial intelligence to enable plant-level precision spraying and crop protection for agriculture.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Daniel McCann

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Agricultural Technology (AgTech), Drone Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
- **Target customers**: Small to large farms, farm machinery manufacturers (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To accelerate artificial intelligence based farming practices to create healthier, happier, and more profitable farms” [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/precision-ai)

## Products & Services
- **Stratus AirSprayer™**: The world’s first fully autonomous aerial sprayer with advanced AI, designed for broad-acre crop protection.
- **SOLV™ Intelligence**: AI-driven software platform that processes visual data from drones to identify individual weeds and enable surgical chemical application.
- **Drone Swarm System**: A fleet of AI-powered drones that work collaboratively to cover large fields with precision spraying.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric – Total Funding**: $21.5 million across 6 rounds (Pre-Seed, Grant, Seed, and two Series A rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: At One Ventures, BDC Capital (Business Development Bank of Canada), Sustainable Development Technology Canada, Protein Industries Canada, Cooperative Ventures, John Deere (2023 collaborator) [dealroom.co](https://app.dealroom.co/companies/precision_1)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 60.7% year-over-year (28 employees as of latest data); expanding presence across 5 countries (Canada, United States, Egypt, Chile, Portugal); won the ‘Innovation Award in Environmental Sustainability’ at Ag in Motion 2022

## Competitive Advantages
- **Patented AI**: Proprietary computer vision models that can distinguish individual weeds from crops in real-time, enabling chemical use reduction of up to 90%.
- **Full-stack autonomy**: Precision AI controls the entire stack — hardware (drones), software (AI/ML), and spraying mechanics — creating a vertically integrated moat.
- **First-mover in aerial precision agriculture**: Unlike ground-based sprayers, their aerial platform can operate in wet field conditions and cover terrain more quickly without crop damage.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling deployment of the Stratus AirSprayer™ to commercial farms in North America.
- Deepening AI capabilities in multimodal models (LLMs, VLMs, vision transformers) to improve weed detection and crop health analysis.
- Expanding partnerships with major agricultural OEMs and farm machinery manufacturers.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-moving, impact-driven team focused on solving real-world environmental and food production challenges.
- **Location**: Onsite role based in Calgary (near Glenmore Trail), with a growing global team spanning Canada, the US, Egypt, Chile, and Portugal.
- **Engineering culture**: Research-driven environment that encourages experimentation with cutting-edge ML techniques (transfer learning, RAG, diffusion models) and staying current with academic papers.
- **Perks & growth**: Opportunity to work on AI models that go from experimentation to production in a hardware-software integrated product; small but rapidly scaling team (60%+ headcount growth YoY) offers high ownership and visibility.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/precision-ai)
2. [jobs.gem.com](https://jobs.gem.com/precision-ai/am9icG9zdDrwQu4_YANLg9uerGNonPDJ)
3. [dealroom.co](https://app.dealroom.co/companies/precision_1)
4. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/precision-ai)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/precision-ai)

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