▸ West End, Brisbane
Come and build rocket fast drones
We design, print, wire and fly high-speed autonomous aircraft. Not models of them. Not simulations of them. The actual aircraft, in a workshop you can walk into, flown in paddocks outside Brisbane most weeks.
We are looking for engineering students who want to work on them.
▸ 01 / What we build
A tube goes up. A wing comes out. It goes fast.
Our aircraft take off vertically from a standing start, tip over into forward flight, fly a mission at speed, then come back and land softly on the spot they were asked to. No runway, no launcher, no assembly, no recovery crew walking into a paddock to collect it.
The lead mission is medical logistics: getting blood, plasma and pharmaceuticals to someone who needs them inside the window where it still changes the outcome. Road transport takes as long as the road takes. We are trying to make that a flight instead, and the reason the aircraft is fast is that in that mission speed is the whole point.
Around that sit the other things a small, deep engineering company has to be good at: autonomy and guidance, simulation at scale, airspace and regulation, manufacturing that holds tolerance, and enough AI in the loop that a team this size can behave like a much larger one.
- Demonstrated top speed
- 176km/h in flight. Among the fastest reusable electric VTOL aircraft in the 1 to 10 kg class.
- Demonstrated cruise
- 143km/h, sustained, carrying a payload.
- A 30 km delivery
- ~13minutes of flight, door to door.
- Hard landings survived
- LotsWe break things so our customers do not have to. The crash reel is a point of pride, not something we hide.
▸ 02 / What it is actually like
You will touch the aircraft
This is a small company. There is no graduate programme, no rotation, no team of twelve where your work disappears into somebody's backlog. You get a bounded piece of a real programme, a named person who owns it with you, and a review that is honest.
You will pull parts off a print bed, wire them up, put them on a bench, break them, and work out why. You will be on flight-test days as crew. You will also write things down properly, because a result nobody can reproduce is not a result here, and that discipline is most of what separates an engineer from an enthusiast.
We expect you to use AI, heavily and openly. Everyone here does. What we care about is whether you can tell when it is wrong.
You need to be on site. Our workshop is in West End, on the river, a few minutes from the city. If you want to build aircraft you have to be able to touch them, and talk to the people touching them. Fully remote does not work for this and we will not pretend it does. We will send you the address when we arrange a time to meet.
▸ 03 / Which one are you
Pick your kind of engineering
Every discipline below has real projects behind it, written up properly: what the work is, what you would learn, what you would hand back, and what we are not promising. Choose the one that fits and you will see the projects filtered to it. You can look at all of them either way.
Electrical / electronics
6 projects
Aircraft power, switching, sensing and protection. Schematic to layout to a board you bring up on the bench yourself.
Electrical, Electrical & Computer, Mechatronic
Embedded / firmware
5 projects
The computers that fly the aircraft. STM32-class avionics, motor-control firmware, PX4 board support and hardware-in-the-loop.
Computer, Electrical, Mechatronic, Software
Software / computer science
9 projects
Run thousands of flights before breakfast. Simulation orchestration, flight-log analytics, tooling that turns a change into evidence.
Software, Computer Science, Computer, Mechatronic
AI / perception / navigation
4 projects
Navigate when GNSS is gone. Visual-inertial odometry, estimator integrity, and the AI infrastructure the engineering team runs on.
Software, Computer Science, Mechatronic, Aerospace
Aerospace / performance
6 projects
Decide what the next aircraft can actually do. Sizing, aerodynamics, propeller and motor matching, then correlate it against real flight data.
Aerospace, Mechanical, Mechatronic
Mechanical / CAD / structures
7 projects
Turn intent into an airframe with known mass, balance and stiffness, then build it and weigh it to find out how wrong the model was.
Mechanical, Mechatronic, Aerospace, Materials
Manufacturing / production
5 projects
Make one aircraft, then make the tenth one identical. Print farm, fixtures, travellers, inspection and the processes that hold tolerance.
Mechanical, Mechatronic, Manufacturing, Materials
Test / flight operations
15 projects
Instrument it, run it to the edge, and come back with data nobody can argue with. Bench, dynamometer and flight-test campaigns.
Aerospace, Mechanical, Mechatronic, Electrical
▸ 04 / How this works
Four steps, no recruiters
1. Unlock the catalogue
Tell us who you are and you are through immediately. No waiting on a human, no approval queue. If somebody gave you a passcode, that works too.
2. Read the projects properly
They are long on purpose. We would much rather you self-select out of something than arrive in week three and discover it involves batteries that can catch fire.
3. Send us a plan
Pick one project and write a plan for the time you actually have. Tell us the exact days and hours you can be on site. Use AI to write it and tell us how you used it. We read every one.
4. Talk to Joni
If the plan shows you understood the problem, you will hear back from the founder directly, because there is nobody in between.