ABOUT OLOMBRIA:
Over 75% of agricultural crops worldwide rely on insects for pollination to ensure increased yields at harvest. However, the total demand for insect-pollinated crops is rising five times as fast as the available hives. Add to this that the number of wild pollinators is steadily declining, and there is an immediate risk to many crops that threatens food security.
Olombria uses specific species of flies to supplement bees as primary pollinators. Flies already do about 30% of the world’s pollination, but the Olombria technology substantially increases their effectiveness. We use advanced, natural chemical signalling and mapping technologies to choreograph their behaviour, placing them just where the crops need them to be.
We love candidates who have a passion for developing innovative solutions and have an entrepreneurial spirit. You will use your technical expertise to work with an interdisciplinary team of designers, scientists, and researchers to build the next generation of agricultural IoT solutions.
Current Openings
ABOUT THE JOB:
Olombria is looking for a Hardware Engineer to support the growing organisation by leading and overseeing the hardware and embedded-software efforts. The Hardware Engineer will play a key role in structuring and executing the company’s hardware plan, managing a small team of talented engineers, as well as coordinating the manufacturing plan for Olombria's hardware. We are looking to have this position filled by someone with industry and manufacturing experience – an enthusiastic and proactive team player with a problem-solving mindset who is motivated to work in a fast-paced start-up environment.
Accountabilities:
• Managing and continuing to build Olombria's team of hardware, software and machine learning engineers;
• Coordinating and executing hardware-related activities ahead of planned manufacturing;
• Coordinating and executing testing and compliance activities related to the hardware planning;
• Liaising with third party consultancies and development partners.
Person Specification:
• 4 – 8 years’ experience in relevant roles
• Experience collaborating with engineers and product management on design specifications to ensure meeting requirements for new products
• Leading and managing electronics design projects to ensure manufacturability, safety and performance is optimised
• Testing and manufacturing experience
• Experience using microcontrollers
• PCB design experience
• Experience in low power design and power optimisation
• Embedded firmware development using C/C++
• Ability to coordinate and manage partnerships, collaborations, and/or consultancy work
• Antenna design for wireless topologies
• Experience developing wireless communication protocols, BLE, LoRa, ZigBee
• Ability to undertake all regulatory compliance including risk assessment, EMC, etc
ABOUT THE JOB:
Collaborating with our Software Engineering team and Machine Learning experts, you will play a key role in executing the company's software development plan and coordinating the optimisation of Olombria’s cloud-based system. We are looking to have this position filled by an enthusiastic and proactive team player with a problem-solving mindset who is motivated to work in a start-up environment.
Accountabilities:
• Play a key role in technical projects across interdisciplinary teams
• Provide assistance in growing a dynamic and innovative engineering team
• Make technical decisions within the engineering team and working with senior management
Person Specification:
• Master’s Degree in Software / Computer / Systems Engineering or equivalent in experience
• Hands-on experience with building customer solutions or demos
• A good understanding of data processing
• Experience in Cloud Systems (Google Cloud Platform or AWS preferred)
• Knowledge of database architecture, migration, performance & sizing
• Advanced programming skills (Python, Java, C / C++)
• A flexible and dynamic approach to development
Contact:
jobs@flypollination.com