# Mechanical Sustaining & Industrialization Engineer

Fotokite builds autonomous, actively tethered drones that give firefighters, police and other first responders an aerial view of an incident at the push of a button. More than 1,000 systems are in service worldwide. Our goal now is to make every next generation more robust, easier to build, and cheaper to produce, while it keeps working in rain, snow, wind and on the roof of a moving vehicle. Keeping the fleet reliable and the product buildable is a job in its own right. We are looking for a mechanical engineer who enjoys making existing products better: finding why parts fail, fixing processes that cause defects, replacing components before they disappear from the market, and keeping production running smoothly. You will join our engineering team in Zurich and work at the line between engineering, production and our suppliers, across the whole Fotokite system: the kite, the tether, and the ground station, including our vehicle-mounted Rooftop Box and Transport Case. Your daily mission: Analyze failures from production, returns and the field, find the root cause and drive the fix through design, process or supplier changes Improve reliability of products in the field, using repair

- **Id**: 4070755
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/fotokite-mechanical-sustaining-industrialization-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Zurich, Switzerland
- **Countries**: CH
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T13:22:15Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T13:22:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3384
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drones & UAVs, Domestic & Household Robotics

## Company

- **Id**: 2347701
- **Name**: fotokite
- **Domain**: fotokite.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/fotokite>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: BambooHR

## Technologies

- **FMEA** — Optional: no
- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Advanced (C1); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T13:22:15Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T15:53:31Z

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