Mechanical Engineer, Aquabyte

• 4+ years of mechanical engineering experience bringing products from CAD ideas to market
• 2+ years experience interfacing with contract manufacturers
• 2+ years experience with injection molding
• Bachelor’s Mechanical Engineering degree

Desirable

• Aquabyte is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to drive the development, testing, and delivery of quality hardware products enabling cutting-edge analytics and automation of fish farms around the world
• We are currently focused on helping Norwegian salmon farmers better understand their fish populations and make environmentally-sound decisions
• Through custom underwater cameras, computer vision, and machine learning we are able to quantify fish weights, detect sea lice infestations, and generate optimal feeding plans in real time
• Our product operates at three levels: on-site hardware for image capture, cloud pipelines for data processing, and a user-facing web application
• As a result, there are hundreds of moving pieces and no shortage of fascinating challenges across all levels of the stack. Above all, Aquabyte is a customer-driven company
• Our product development is dictated by the needs of fish farmers and we prioritize customer delight in everything we do. We are committed to build a global, collaborative team that creates value far beyond Silicon Valley
• Aquabyte is producing industry-leading hardware products to enable analytics from optical and real-world sensors deployed underwater in industrial fish farms and additionally enabling robotic automation of farm tasks
• This hardware is deployed in some of the most harsh operating conditions on earth for electronics and sensors and is difficult to access once deployed
• Your role is to produce quality hardware on-schedule and within budget to meet customer needs
• You will involve and manage contract mechanical designers, iterate on existing designs, and develop new concepts for research, manufacturing automation, and enterprise product lines
• You will challenge mechanical engineering decisions to enhance the quality, manufacturability, and cost of hardware
• You will work with the product team to ensure hardware meets customer expectations
• You will be part of the Hardware Engineering org working closely with the embedded system team
• This role is particularly ambitious within an already ambitious company; we hope you enjoy challenges
• New product mechanical design of underwater enclosure
• Enhancements and cost reduction alternatives for hardware products
• Management of mechanical design consultants
• Design review of critical components
• Lead selection of 3rd party manufacturer of hardware components
• On-time and within-budget delivery of hardware products
• Ensure regulatory compliance for hardware is met in various geographies
• Improve quality control processes and hardware testability
• Stabilize prototype to production development of new hardware products
• Improve lifetime of products through failure analysis and evolving environmental testing procedures
• Improve manufacturability and simplicity of hardware products
• Ensure quality, documented, and correctly-attended meetings between research, design, software, and manufacturing stakeholders
• Design for fail-safe operation