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title: 'Production Operator Assembly at Wingtra AG'
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# Production Operator Assembly at Wingtra AG

- **Company:** Wingtra AG
- **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wingtra-2/2afba0e7-2b1c-40a5-b3de-2a634550aae4

## Job description

Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 120+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 9 years ago at ETH Zurich, Europe’s leading robotics university, our goal is to build the best aerial robots to digitize the world at the push of a button and set the basis for faster and better decisions. Wingtra provides efficient and reliable data solutions to a variety of industries ranging from mining, construction and agriculture to humanitarian organizations, environmentalists and wildlife monitoring groups.

## Responsibilities

- Assembly of Wingtra drones for customers
- Hands-on work including gluing, sanding, drilling, and custom labeling of parts
- Mounting and wiring of electronics
- Calibration and quality control / testing of the Wingtra drones
- Assist with basic inventory tracking and contribute ideas to refine production workflows, Lean process improvements, and product design

## Requirements

- Basic technical training (e.g. EFZ Elektroniker/in, Automatiker/in, Polymechaniker/in) or several years’ experience in a similar assembly role
- Manual dexterity and a flair for precise work
- Interest in working with an innovative team and rapidly changing processes, and helping to shape them
- Very good communication skills in English

Plus

- 3+ years of assembly experience with electromechanical devices
- Proven track record of precise work / series production
- Experience soldering cables, connectors and components
- Background in Lean / 5S

## We offer

- Young and dynamic team
- Flexible working hours, no shift work
- Gaining experience and personal development in an innovative and fast-growing company
- Free snacks, a ping-pong table and lots of enthusiastic Wingtranauts ;-)

If you enjoy teamwork more than being the individual superhero, and if you thrive in a feedback-driven culture and an exciting, unconventional yet structured and progressive start-up environment, we would love to hear from you.

## About Wingtra AG

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Wingtra designs and manufactures professional VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) fixed-wing drones for aerial surveying and mapping, tightly integrating a purpose-built drone, high-end sensors, high-precision GNSS positioning, and dedicated software into one connected workflow.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed; Series B1 stage)
- **Headquarters**: Zurich, Switzerland (Giesshübelstrasse 40, 8045 Zurich; additional offices in Fort Lauderdale, USA, and Zagreb, Croatia)
- **Founded**: 2016 (spun out of the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich; incubated at the Wyss Zurich accelerator)
- **Founders**: Maximilian Boosfeld (Founder & CEO), Elias Kleimann (Founder, Strategy & Investor Relations); Armin Ambühl serves as CTO

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Drone/aerospace manufacturing, geospatial data collection, aerial surveying and mapping, construction, mining, infrastructure, and government services
- **Target customers**: B2B / Enterprise — professional land surveyors, mining engineers, construction managers, civil engineers, GIS specialists, drone service providers, universities, and government agencies (e.g., US state transportation departments, US Army Corps of Engineers)
- **Mission**: "To make professional-grade geospatial deliverables and aerial insights more accessible to teams with mixed levels of drone and surveying expertise, so that organizations can manage resources, infrastructure, and assets more effectively."

## Products & Services
- **WingtraOne PPK (Flagship)**: VTOL fixed-wing mapping drone with sub-centimetre absolute accuracy; the platform of choice for construction, infrastructure, mining, and land management surveying. Type: Hardware (drone) + Software.
- **WingtraRAY**: NDAA-compliant fixed-wing drone variant, added to the AUVSI Green UAS Cleared List in 2025, enabling US federal and defense-adjacent procurement. Type: Hardware.
- **Wingtra LIDAR**: LiDAR payload system launched in February 2024, bringing "a new level of ease and efficiency" to aerial surveying. Type: Hardware payload.
- **GNSS Ground Kit**: High-precision ground positioning component that complements the drone's PPK (Post-Processed Kinematic) workflow. Type: Hardware accessory.
- **Sensor Payloads**: Interchangeable RGB, LiDAR, and multispectral sensors for different survey missions. Type: Hardware.
- **Wingtra Software**: Connected toolchain for flight planning and delivery of CAD/GIS-ready outputs (orthomosaics, digital elevation models, point clouds). Type: Software (SaaS/desktop).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue estimated at ~$40M (per LinkedIn company data); Total funding includes a $22M Series B and a €23M (~$25M) Series B1 extension closed in August 2024
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: DiamondStream Partners, EquityPitcher Ventures, Verve Ventures, EIC Fund, ACE & Company; European Innovation Council (€2.9M grant); VentureOut; AgEagle Aerial Systems (camera supplier); reseller partners include Drone Nerds
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 2,000+ customers globally; 100,000+ flights flown every year; 100+ resellers worldwide
  - Marquee enterprise customers: PCL Construction, Bechtel, CEMEX, Balfour Beatty, Kiewit, Rio Tinto, Barrick, Glencore, Newmont
  - US Army Corps of Engineers repeatedly contracts sensitive projects to Wingtra customers
  - 2025: WingtraRAY added to AUVSI Green UAS Cleared List; Drone Nerds debuts NDAA-compliant WingtraRAY
  - 2025: AgEagle Aerial Systems announces multi-unit camera sale to Wingtra
  - Employee count reported variously: 125+ (official site), 104 (LinkedIn, -3.8% YoY), ~200 (Drone Intelligence) — conflicting reports

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary VTOL tailsitter technology** developed at ETH Zurich's Autonomous Systems Lab, solving traditional surveying workflow inefficiencies while reducing points of failure
- **Fully integrated workflow** (drone + sensors + GNSS + software) that shortens the path from flight planning to validated geospatial deliverables, lowering cost per survey area and reducing rework
- **Sub-centimetre accuracy** that makes output defensible for engineering, mining, and government use
- **NDAA compliance** for WingtraRAY, opening the US federal and public-sector market to a Swiss-made platform
- **Swiss engineering ecosystem**: hardware designed and assembled in Zurich alongside Leica Geosystems, Pix4D, Flyability, and Auterion
- **Category leadership**: ranked second overall and first in the drone category among Swiss start-ups (2020)

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding LiDAR and multispectral capabilities to capture more of the surveying payload market
- Deepening US market penetration via NDAA-compliant hardware (WingtraRAY) and federal procurement channels
- Scaling the global reseller network (100+ resellers across US, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC)
- Making professional-grade aerial data collection accessible to teams with mixed drone/surveying expertise, reducing reliance on specialized pilots

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Employees ("Wingtranauts") describe a transparent, data-driven environment where "arguments trump opinions, and data and statistics trump arguments"; by default, every employee has access to everything. The company emphasizes curiosity, continuous improvement, and a "bias for action."
- **Recognition**: Ranked among the best start-ups in Switzerland (2nd overall, 1st in the drone category, 2020).
- **Work model**: Mix of on-site roles (engineering and manufacturing in Zurich) and remote roles (e.g., Head of Sales US West is remote, US-based). Open roles include Quality and Incoming Technician, Working Student Quality, and Regional Sales Manager Canada.
- **Team**: ~125–200 employees across 24 countries; 30+ in R&D; a flat, human-first environment that "works for humans."
- **Employer ratings (per LinkedIn, 55 reviews)**: Overall 3.4/5; Work-Life Balance 3.7, Culture 3.5, Compensation 3.1, Career 3.0 — candid feedback suggesting strong culture but room for improvement in pay and career progression.
- **Note**: Wingtra does not accept agency resumes or unsolicited referral fees.

## Sources
1. [wingtra.com](https://wingtra.com/company/)
2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/wingtra-2)
3. [wingtra.com](https://wingtra.com/company/career/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/wingtra)
5. [droneintelligence.ai](https://droneintelligence.ai/companies/wingtra)

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