--- title: 'Senior Mechanical Engineer at Wingtra AG' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-mechanical-engineer-wingtra-ag-zurich-5qrrdg51xrsy' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # Senior Mechanical Engineer at Wingtra AG - **Company:** Wingtra AG - **Location:** Zurich, Switzerland - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-11-02 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/wingtra-2/0837e981-8589-4600-9c81-2503f8e056cb ## Job description Join the Wingtra team and become part of this venture-backed robotics scaleup with a global and international team of 125+ dedicated Wingtranauts who want to see their actions have a positive and lasting impact on the world. Founded more than 8 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. We are reaching for the stars and together we might just get there. Open communication, asking hard questions and valuing diverse viewpoints are but a few things that will help us achieve our goals. Above all we will never stop learning and striving to help each other reach our maximum potential. ## Responsibilities - Take a new aircraft from concept to series production. You work in a small team with electronics designers and test engineers. You get direct feedback from prototypes, flight tests and production builds. - Design and iterate lightweight parts. You design, build and test parts and assemblies, then improve them until they are ready for production. - Choose materials and processes with care. You balance performance, volumes, unit cost, tooling investment and lead times. - Own DFX. You design for manufacturing, assembly, quality, cost and serviceability, and you settle tolerances, interfaces and process constraints early. - Work hand in hand with suppliers. You partner with sourcing on technical feasibility, tooling and part iterations. - Own qualification. You qualify parts with the intended production materials and processes, and you agree product-specific acceptance criteria with the test engineers. - Deliver the production-ready product file. CAD, 2D drawings, tolerances, BOMs, material and process specifications and acceptance criteria. - Hand over a running line. Once the qualification gates have passed and ramp-up is complete, you hand the line and the product file to Production and Production Engineering. ## Requirements - You have several years of experience taking mechanical products through the full lifecycle: prototype, series production and quality monitoring at the customer. Ideally on structurally critical products at volumes of hundreds to a few thousand units. - You are strong in CAD (Solidworks/PDM preferred), tolerance analysis and material selection. - You have practical experience with injection molding as well as additive manufacturing for functional plastic parts. - You prototype fast and pragmatically, then qualify and document with discipline. - You like hands-on work: builds, testing and working with suppliers. - You use AI for design exploration, qualification planning and data analysis. You check its output, share new workflows and keep raising the team’s bar. - You are curious, flexible and collaborative, with a real drive to build the next great thing. 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. 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