Engineering Technician

Aquabyte is seeking an Engineering Technician to help develop and deploy new products to fish farms across the world. The role will be based out of our office in Puerto Varas, Chile.

Our mission
Aquabyte is on a mission to revolutionize the sustainability and efficiency of aquaculture. It is an audacious, and incredibly rewarding mission. By making fish farming cheaper and more viable than livestock production, we aim to mitigate one of the biggest causes of climate change and help prepare our planet for impending population growth. Aquaculture is the single fastest growing food-production sector in the world, and now is the time to define how technology is used to harvest the sea and preserve it for generations to come.

We are a diverse, mission-driven team that is eager to work alongside kindred spirits. If this vision makes you smile, gives you goosebumps, or otherwise inspires you please get in touch.

Our product
We are currently focused on helping 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 the health status, 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.

The Role
Aquabyte is developing world-leading systems to transform the aquaculture industry and you will play an important part to help advance our products. You work with a team to support research and deployment activities of aquaculture monitoring systems. The role will involve travel to different sites to interact with equipment and execute product evaluation trials.

Responsibilities:
• Support various aquaculture product development initiatives
• Travel to different aquaculture sites
• Service, test, troubleshoot, and deploy cabinets, cameras, sensors and networking equipment
• Collect and curate data from Aquabyte and 3rd party systems
• Design and execute product trials with customers
• Analysis and presentation of results
• Provide product development feedback to help define/refine product requirements

Qualification Required:
• Relevant technical degree
• Data collection & management experience
• Strong product testing / trial design & execution skills
• Familiarity with computers & software configuration
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP
• Familiarity with proxies, switches/routers, DHCP, HTTP, DNS, TLS, NTP, SSH and NAT
• Ability to travel occasionally for 2-4 days at a time away from Puerto Varas
• Fluency in Spanish and English, in both writing and speech
• Physically able to lift 25kg.
• A valid driver's license and able to drive.

Qualification Bonus:
• 2+ years of experience within aquaculture or similar industry
• Familiarity with camera or other sensor technology used in aquaculture
• Experience deploying software to off-site hardware
• Experience with linux OS, python, basic scripting, and software configuration

Benefits:
• Competitive salary and stock options
• Centrally located office in Puerto Varas
• Free lunch and snacks
• Opportunities for personal and professional development in a dynamic environment
• Flexible working hours and a positive team culture
• The chance to contribute to sustainable innovation in the global seafood industry
• The opportunity to assist the world’s largest fish farmers in reducing fish handling, improving fish welfare, and optimizing sustainable food production
• Travel to USA and Norway

At Aquabyte, we admire interesting people with a unique background.
We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t satisfy all the requirements, and we will get back to you as soon as possible!