▸ West End, Brisbane

Come and sell rocket fast drones

We build high-speed autonomous aircraft that take off vertically, fly a mission at speed, and land softly on the spot they were asked to. They work. We fly them most weeks.

What we do not have is anyone whose job is to sell them. That is the role we are hiring for now, it is budgeted, and the salary band is published.

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▸ 01 / What we do

Aircraft that are actually fast

Rocket Fast Drones designs, builds and flies uncrewed aircraft in Brisbane. No runway, no launcher, no assembly on site, and no recovery crew walking into a paddock to collect it. It goes straight up, tips over onto a wing, gets there, and comes back.

The mission we lead with is medical logistics: blood, plasma and pharmaceuticals delivered inside the window where speed still changes the outcome. Road transport takes as long as the road takes. Around that sit survey and inspection, emergency response, mining, and allied defence.

We are a small team with deep engineering behind it. The founder spent two decades in aerospace before this, from the US Air Force Research Laboratory through hypersonics to launching rockets in Australia.

Hover to forward flightTipping over onto the wing under thrust vectoring. The hard part.

Coming back downSoft vertical landing, on the spot, no recovery crew.

Payload out, turn it aroundUnloaded and flown again. Reusable is the whole point.

Flying faster than the windA small, high-speed wing holding station in air moving faster than most drones can fly. Big file, so tap to play.

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.
Longest flight: 12.2km, and it landed with 40% of the battery still in it.
Autonomous missions: 15across four days. 12 of them completely hands off, zero intervention.

▸ Every figure above is a demonstrated flight result, not a target. We hold ourselves to that in sales conversations too.

▸ 02 / Working here

What you would actually get

A short line to the decision

You would report to the founder. Pricing, terms, product direction: one conversation, not one quarter. If what you learn in the market contradicts the plan, the plan can change that week.

Paid properly, in the open

The band is on the listing, along with why it is a wide one. We are not going to make you guess or negotiate blind. Commission is paid on cash collected rather than contracts signed, because a signed contract that has not paid does not help either of us.

Work that is genuinely interesting

Autonomous aircraft, medical logistics, airspace regulation, defence, manufacturing. You would learn a sector rather than a product, and you would be in a workshop with the aircraft in it.

Honesty as a working method

Every performance number we publish is a demonstrated one. We label targets as targets and simulations as simulations. It constrains what you can say in a sales conversation, and it is also why people believe us.

A small company, with what that means

No marketing team generating your leads. No sales engineer. Some weeks you are helping carry gear at a flight test. The infrastructure you are used to may not exist yet, and you might have to build it.

On site, in West End

On the river, a few minutes from the city. These are not remote roles: being near the aircraft and the engineers is what makes you credible in front of a customer.

An engineer assembling an aircraft on the build floor — ▸ The build floor

The print farm producing airframe components — ▸ Airframes come off these

Two people assembling aircraft components at the bench — ▸ The bench, on a normal day

▸ 03 / What is open

2 roles, and a standing invitation

The pay is published on every listing. What is behind the gate is which roles they are and what the work actually involves, because we would like to know who is looking, including the people who read a role and decide against it.

Full time: $110,000 to $155,000 base plus super, depending on experience, plus commissionOn site in West End, Brisbane, with travel to customers
Casual, per flight day or per engagement: $650 to $900 a flight day depending on ratings and role, plus travelBrisbane, plus range days outside the city
Not open yet: Engineering talent poolSix capabilities we know we will need, in the order we need them. Not a vacancy, and we say so. Worth a hello if one of them is yours.

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▸ 04 / How this works

Three steps, no recruiters

1. Tell us who you are

Name, email, what you do now. You are through immediately, no approval queue. We ask because we would like to know who is looking, including the people who read the role and decide it is not for them. That is useful information.

2. Read the listing properly

It is long, it says what we measure, what we pay, and what is genuinely hard about the job. We would rather you self-selected out than discovered it in month two.

3. Apply, with your CV

A short form, three real questions and a PDF. It goes straight to the founder, who reads them herself. No applicant tracking system, no keyword filter, and nobody between you and the decision.

Then we talk

If it looks like a fit you will hear back. Expect a reply either way rather than silence, though it may take a few days.

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