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title: 'Senior Systems Engineer, UAV Open Architecture at World View'
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# Senior Systems Engineer, UAV Open Architecture at World View

- **Company:** World View
- **Location:** Irvine, CA
- **Compensation:** $140k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/world-view-enterprises-inc./7db58b8e-4d46-4053-b306-462e589c8b95

## About World View

## Company Overview
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_View_Enterprises))

## Core Business
- **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](https://www.worldview.space/careers)).

## Products & Services
- **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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_View_Enterprises), [worldview.space](https://www.worldview.space/about)).
- **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](https://www.worldview.space/careers)).
- **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](https://www.worldview.space/careers)).
- **Future Offerings**: Space tourism, research, and education programs built on its stratospheric flight platform ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/world-view-enterprises)).

## Market Standing
- **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](https://www.worldview.space/about)).
- **Key Metric**: Estimated annual revenue of **$16.3M**; **$92.9M in total funding** raised across 11 prior rounds

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