We build drones with unlimited range (by recharging on power lines). The grid is the world’s largest machine. Thus, we can collect data anywhere, anytime. We're selling a full-stack inspection service to power utilities by delivering reports with annotated photos of equipment that is broken or at risk. Our mission is to find faults and other maintenance concerns before they spark wildfires. Today power utilities are our customer, but tomorrow they'll be our deployment partner. At scale we are a new infrastructure layer for data on the physical world.

Please do not use AI to apply to this role.

Marketing Intern

Location: Mission District, SF
Duration: 3 months
Compensation: see below + $2,500 relocation bonus (for outside Bay Area)
Start: ASAP

Role Overview

Internship designed to convert to a full time Founding Marketing Associate role.

We’re looking for a talented marketer who has can help build Voltair’s brand. This is a ‘full-stack’ position, from strategy to copy to design to implementation and marketing operations. We’re looking for someone with extremely strong communication, writing and analysis skills.

Representative & Real Projects Anticipated 

This is just a snapshot in time. Projects will shift rapidly.

1. Demo Day Video: Develop the narrative, structure, and coordinate the scripting, storyboarding, and editing for the company's Demo Day Video.
2. Cost-Benefit Analysis Brochure / White Paper: Produce an analytical, customer-facing brochure quantifying the economic value of drone-based inspections for utilities.
3. Website: Own and maintain the Voltair website end-to-end, continuously updating all copy, structure, and visuals.
4. Conference Collateral: Build all marketing deliverables—including one-pagers, banners, decks, and swag copy.
5. LinkedIn: Build and maintain Voltair’s professional presence on LinkedIn, executing founder ghostwriting and company posts.
6. Risk & Safety Brochure: Develop a customer-facing brochure that explains system design, mitigations, and operational safeguards for the self-charging technology.

This is the type of work expected in this role.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Extreme Ownership
• Marketing experience + worked for a YC startup or MBB or FAANG
• Experience / interest in heavy industries (the closer you are to our space, the better)

Work Style

• In-person work is strongly preferred / required. We have an office in the Mission.
• Minimal management; you should be comfortable with ambiguity

Application

Please submit:

• Resume

Optional

• Writing sample (e.g., brochure, one-pager, or similar asset)
• Portfolio or links 
• Loom video introduction

Our drones recharge inductively from power lines by harvesting the magnetic field with a current transformer. We build custom drones with COTS parts. We collect visual and thermal data. Soon we'll fly our drones BVLOS over LTE, but today our field technicians collect data on-site. We run this data through a MV pipelines and then deliver the GIS and PDF reports to our customers.

Our Hardest Challenges

• Performant recharging on distribution lines
• Drone weather hardening & reliability
• Tele-operations & autonomy
• Mission planning with (1) range / recharge locations (stochastic!) (2) weather (3) FAA and other compliance constraints + traveling inspector problem
• Cost effective uplink & data management / MV on the edge