About Jaia Robotics, Inc.

Jaia Robotics needs the best and brightest. We welcome interns with the right experience who are rising juniors, seniors, or graduate students at their university, technical college or vocational school who share a passion for our vision and mission and align with our values.

Vision

Democratize Aquatic Data Collection

Mission

Providing the ultimate customer experience, with simplicity at the core of everything we do by creating safe, easy-to-use data collection and data visualization solutions (that keep operators out of harm’s way).

How We Do It – Our Values

Respect: Treating others how they would like to be treated. Believing there is best intent in every action. Disagreeing but don’t being disagreeable. Leaving the planet a better place than you found it.

Integrity: Being honest and fair in all we do. Being accountable and holding others to account. See something unethical, say something. Knowing when to ask for help.

Customer Focus: Being customer experience led. Fostering collaboration. Delivering what you said you would. Communicating often and accurately. Delivering affordable value add products and services.

Innovation: Embracing failure and learning from it. Recognizing no idea is a bad idea. Welcoming the experiences and value people bring from different walks of life, cultures, and genders.

Simplicity: Creating intuitive, easy to use products and services. Making life at work as simple as possible for our team and partners.

What We Do

Jaia Robotics is a multi-use aquatic drone and data solutions company that is aiming to disrupt the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) market by providing very low-cost, ultra-portable, high-speed aquatic drones that can be deployed in multi vehicle pods. The JaiaBot aquatic drones can be used for point or wide area data collection and payload delivery. Their ultraportable design allows them to be launched from virtually anywhere, including surf zones, riverbanks, docks, or watercraft. The JaiaBot System is modular, enabling rapid integration of different sensors and payloads, making it highly adaptable for various applications such as Environmental Monitoring, Research, Offshore Renewables, Aquaculture, Defense, and Academia. The system offers significant cost savings and is scalable due to its low acquisition cost and minimal maintenance requirements.

About the Role

As the Robotics Engineer at Jaia Robotics, you will be working on the cutting edge of autonomous marine vehicle design and development. This role will require working with industry recognized lead mechanical engineers and project team, which will provide a unique learning opportunity. Our culture is a can do will do approach to engineering challenges and your success requires always being willing to go the extra mile to achieve our goals. Being an effective communicator is essential for collaborating to ensure optimal solutions to solving design and operational product problems.

Primary Role

• Innovate: Add value by offering novel practical solutions to problems and identifying new opportunities.
• Product Development: Take new ideas from infancy to maturation using your skills, experience, research, and talent while adhering to Jaia’s engineering processes.
• Investigation and Verification: Confirm product capabilities via prototyping, testing, and analysis to ensure conformance to requirements. Identify and explain non-conformance.
• Design for Manufacture: Deliver high quality technical and manufacturing data packages to ensure seamless transfer from product development to the Contract Manufacturer.
• Teamwork: Work closely with the entire product development team to increase the overall capacity, capability, effectiveness, and efficiency needed to grow and deliver high quality products and services on time.

Role Responsibilities

• Meaningfully contribute to the full development life cycle: system design, test, and integration
• Design for manufacture system level technical data packages
• Create CAD models and drawings that support engineering development and transition to manufacture
• Research different approaches to meet system performance goals
• Work with vendors to select systems, sub systems, and components
• Create mechanical engineering models and simulators for engineering analysis of system performance
• Design and conduct hands-on system testing in the lab, pool, or marine environment
• Analyze log files and performance data to drive system design decisions
• Travel for test and customer support / demo operations will be occasionally required

Qualifications & Skills

• Postgraduate or undergraduate degree in engineering, or related field with experience in blue tech, preferably in uncrewed underwater vehicles, drones, robotics, or similar hardware products.
• Strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Recognized leadership skills that inspire teams and individuals to do their best work.
• Strong understanding of cost estimating and control, product development, supply chain management, manufacturing processes, and quality control.
• Being an effective communicator at all levels within Jaia and our customer, partner, vendor, and collaborator organizations will be an essential skill.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to operate in a team environment and to clearly explain problems and potential solutions.
• You must be able to create and maintain trusting relationships with teammates and customers.
• Proven track record in driving operational efficiency, scalability, and innovation.

As a Jaia Robotics employee there is almost unlimited scope to grow into a senior leadership or management role at a pace that would be unprecedented in a larger organization if that is a career path that would be of interest. If leadership aspirations are not desired, Jaia Robotics values the individual contributor role equally and will encourage growth as a deep subject matter expert.

The duties and responsibilities of the Robotics Engineer may change from time to time, at the sole discretion of Jaia. The Company expects that you will adapt to and embrace new and additional duties and responsibilities that leverage your talent, expertise, and enjoyment of what you are good at and love doing most.

We welcome teammates that will contribute to Jaia by leaving your ego at the door, having the right attitude, a passion for our vision, mission and values in everything that you do.

Your employment is conditional upon reference and background checks and providing us documentation regarding your ability to work in the United States. You must sign all required Jaia documents including, but not limited to, Assignments of Intellectual Property, Inventions, Non-Disclosure Agreements, and such other agreements deemed necessary by Jaia.

It Would Be Awesome If You Had

• Experience in engineering, oceanography, business, communications, or marketing.
• Knowledge and experience operating our JaiaBot vehicles.
• Commitment to protect our environment.
• Seamanship or boating skills.

If you join Jaia, you will become part of a fast-paced and dedicated team that works together to provide our clients with the highest possible level of service and advice