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# Inspection Data Review (Contractor) at voltairlabs.com

- **Company:** voltairlabs.com
- **Location:** Pacific Northwest
- **Compensation:** $25–$65/hr
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-12-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/voltairlabs-com/am9icG9zdDrUbtT-FquxPGuu0cT0bFWq

## Job description

Inspection Data Review Contractor (Deep Utility Infrastructure Experience Required)

Company Overview Voltair builds drones that recharge directly off power lines. We are a YC-funded (W26) technology company focused on preventing wildfires by enabling continuous inspection of electric infrastructure.

Our drones collect large volumes of visual and sensor data from live power lines. That data must be reviewed by people who know the grid from firsthand experience.

Job Summary Voltair is hiring an Inspection Data Review Contractor to support utility inspection programs across the United States. This role is focused exclusively on reviewing drone-collected inspection data and identifying infrastructure conditions that matter to utilities.

This is a fully remote, desk-based role. It does not involve flying drones, field deployment, or crew management. This role requires deep, hands-on experience maintaining and repairing power utility infrastructure. Candidates without direct field experience working on distribution or transmission systems should not apply.

Location & Work Style

- Location: Fully remote (U.S.-based)
- Schedule: Part-time contractor, flexible hours
- Work Style: Independent, detail-oriented, asynchronous

Compensation: $25–65/hour, depending on experience

## Key Responsibilities

Review and analyze drone imagery and inspection data of electric utility poles to identify maintenance exceptions across distribution assets, including insulators, wooden structures, hardware assemblies, transformers, fuse cutouts, capacitors, tie wires, and related equipment.

Judgment, Documentation, & Collaboration

- Must support good design and organization of data.
- Provide feedback to engineering teams to improve review tools and workflows
- Help refine definitions of defects, risks, and conditions utilities care about

## Minimum Qualifications

Required Experience

- Deep, hands-on experience maintaining, repairing, or inspecting power utility assets.
- Strong familiarity with distribution infrastructure components and failure modes Practical Requirements
- Strong attention to detail and consistency
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Ability to review imagery for extended periods
- Reliable computer and internet access Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with annotation or structured review tools (training provided)

Ideal Candidate Profile This role is best suited for a retired or semi-retired journeyman lineman or utility asset inspector who has spent years identifying, fixing, and prioritizing real asset defects in the field.

## About voltairlabs.com

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Voltair builds and deploys a globally distributed network of autonomous, self-charging drones to provide millimeter-scale inspection data for power utilities and, eventually, other critical infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage startup; backed by Y Combinator)
- **Headquarters**: Pullman, Washington, United States (with an office in Chicago, Illinois)
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Ronan Nopp (CEO), Hayden Gosch (CTO), Avi Gotskind (CGO), Warren Weissbluth (COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Drone-based infrastructure inspection / Energy technology (utility grid monitoring)
- **Target customers**: B2B – electric utilities, cooperatives, and energy companies (e.g., Avangrid, Fairfield Electric Cooperative); future expansion into road, rail, telecom, forestry, construction, search & rescue, and insurance.
- **Mission or purpose**: To enable linemen and grid operators with “eyes in the sky” by delivering drone inspection data in minutes, not days, and to build the world's first globally distributed network of autonomous drones for Earth observation.

## Products & Services
- **Faraday-1 (Drone)**: Autonomous, long-range hybrid fixed-wing drone with 85-mile flight range, 135-minute flight time, and 12-minute average response time. Equipped with RGB, radiometric thermal, and LiDAR sensors. Capable of live video streaming (<500 ms latency) and continuous proactive missions (asset inspection at 35-60 mph, LiDAR mapping) as well as rapid reactive missions (post-storm damage assessment, fault localization).
- **Lighthouse-1 (Ground Infrastructure)**: Charging pads installed on utility poles that enable Faraday-1 to recharge in the field while providing GNSS RTK corrections and data uplink. Each pad unlocks ~1,000 square miles of coverage.
- **Inspection Services**: Full-stack service offering including asset inspection, LiDAR mapping, post-storm damage assessment, and rapid fault localization. Data is delivered through a platform with high-priority alerts (e.g., emergency notifications for frayed conductors).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – conflicting reports: $125K per LinkedIn (Pre-Seed led by Y Combinator + Seed round of $125K from 1 investor + Grant from Toloka.vc) **or** $500K per Tracxn. Both sources agree on at least two funding rounds (Pre-Seed and Seed).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (lead investor in Pre-Seed), Toloka.vc (Grant). Pilot customer: Avangrid (a leading energy company serving 3.4M customers, part of Iberdrola Group). Also working with Fairfield Electric Cooperative.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 7 employees as of mid-2026, with +12.5% monthly headcount growth.
  - 1,526 LinkedIn followers (+4.2% monthly).
  - Landed a pilot with Avangrid (announced July 2026).
  - Demonstrated real-world impact: detected a frayed neutral conductor for Fairfield Electric Cooperative, preventing an outage.
  - Y Combinator batch company (Launch YC in 2026).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack approach**: Voltair owns both the drone hardware (Faraday-1) and the ground charging infrastructure (Lighthouse-1), delivering a turnkey service rather than just selling drones.
- **Long-range, weatherized drones**: Hybrid fixed-wing design with 85-mile range and 135-minute endurance, capable of inspecting 35-60 mph along power lines.
- **Charging network on utility poles**: By installing charging pads directly on the grid, Voltair achieves persistent coverage without human intervention – each pad unlocks 1,000 sq miles.
- **YC backing & early utility traction**: Pilots with major utilities (Avangrid, Fairfield) provide credibility and a path to scale.
- **Multi-sensor payload**: RGB, thermal, and LiDAR in a single platform, enabling both visual and quantitative inspection data.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale utility inspection**: Expand pilot deployments with more utilities, targeting the $10B+ annual utility inspection market.
- **Network effect**: As more charging pads are deployed, coverage area grows, lowering cost per square mile and enabling new use cases.
- **Horizontal expansion**: Use the same distributed drone network to serve adjacent markets: road, rail, telecom inspection, hyperlocal weather monitoring, forestry, construction, search & rescue, and insurance – all at 10x lower prices than current methods.
- **On-demand drone instances**: Build a platform where customers can request drone “instances” on-demand without operating hardware.

## Why Work Here
- **Early-stage impact**: Join a 7-person team (as of 2026) where every hire has outsized influence on product, culture, and strategy.
- **Cutting-edge hardware + software**: Work on autonomous flight, computer vision, power electronics, and distributed systems – all in one company.
- **YC-backed startup**: Access to Y Combinator’s network and resources, with a clear path to Series A.
- **Mission-driven**: Directly contribute to grid resilience, preventing outages, and enabling cleaner energy infrastructure.
- **Culture**: High-agility environment; founders are hands-on and come from engineering backgrounds (controls systems, power electronics, operations research). Recent LinkedIn posts show a customer-obsessed, problem-solving ethos.
- **Location**: HQ in Pullman, WA (with Chicago office) – offers a mix of rural/hardware-friendly environment and urban presence. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated, but likely flexible given small team.

## Sources
1. [voltairlabs.com](https://www.voltairlabs.com/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/voltair-labs](https://linkedin.com/company/voltair-labs)
3. [ycombinator.com/companies/voltair](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/voltair)
4. [tracxn.com/d/companies/voltair](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/voltair/__kYVMaFVNOo8jvbI1bCUZszm48O14NFSPzFsVNOdU9oE)
5. [ycombinator.com/launches/PhE-voltair](https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PhE-voltair-network-of-distributed-autonomous-drones-for-earth-observation)
6. [jobs.gem.com/voltairlabs-com](https://jobs.gem.com/voltairlabs-com)

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