Flight Operator at World View (Tucson, AZ)

World View· Tucson, AZ· $60k–$65k·1h ago

Role details

Salary

$60k–$65k

Work type

Onsite

Employment

Full-Time

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One-liner: World View is a stratospheric aerospace company that designs, manufactures, and operates high-altitude balloon platforms for remote sensing, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) missions.
Entity Type: Public-company division — acquired by Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONDS) in April 2026 and now operating as Ondas Sentinel (formerly a private company with 11 funding rounds totaling $92.9M).
Headquarters: Tucson, Arizona, United States
Founded: 2012 (incorporated August 2012 as World View Enterprises, Inc.)
Founders: Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum (per public record — en.wikipedia.org)

Primary industries: Aerospace, defense/ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance), stratospheric remote sensing, and high-altitude platform (HAP) services.
Target customers: B2G and B2B — U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, NOAA, U.S. Air Force, allied governments, and commercial/enterprise customers (agriculture, energy, environmental monitoring).
Mission: "To inspire, create, and explore new perspectives for a radically improved future" — with a operating ethos of going "to the stratosphere, for the Earth" (worldview.space).

Stratollite®: A remotely operated, navigable, uncrewed stratospheric flight vehicle engineered to station-keep over customer-specified areas of interest for days, weeks, or months using proprietary altitude-control technology (en.wikipedia.org, worldview.space).
Stratospheric ISR Solutions: Multi-domain collection and multi-modal sensing (electro-optical, infrared, radar, hyperspectral, radio relay) integrated into a unified intelligence workflow for defense, government, and commercial missions (worldview.space).
Balloon Manufacturing / Stratocraft: In-house manufacturing of stratospheric balloons and flight vehicles at its Tucson "Balloon Farm" facility, including a Mission Control center and avionics High Bay (worldview.space).
Future Offerings: Space tourism, research, and education programs built on its stratospheric flight platform (linkedin.com).

Valuation/Market Cap: Not disclosed as a standalone entity — World View is now a division of publicly traded Ondas Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONDS) following the April 2026 acquisition (worldview.space).
Key Metric: Estimated annual revenue of $16.3M; $92.9M in total funding raised across 11 prior rounds