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Would you like to be part of building a brand new industry? 

We are looking for a talented Manufacturing Engineer to (ME) to help drive the R&D efforts of our rapidly growing technology business.

Dogtooth is a Cambridge-based technology start-up specialising in autonomous robotics for fruit harvesting. Founded nine years ago, we have successfully developed, manufactured, and deployed five generations of strawberry picking robot on farms in Europe and Australia. Our team combines considerable expertise in manufacturing, mechanical, electronics and software engineering, and machine learning computer vision.  

Initially this will be a short term (3 month) role with the potential to extend.

The role 

As our ME, you will: 

• Oversee our internal and supplier manufacturing processes to ensure we produce high quality robots and ancillary equipment.
• Champion lean, standardised work principles emphasising safety, quality, and productivity.
• Develop and operate processes for the assembly and testing of subsystems and fully working robots and other ancillary equipment.
• Collaborate with R&D to influence the simplicity of robot manufacture and translate designs into well designed work that achieves its design intent.
• Work with field operations, R&D, suppliers, and outsource partners to resolve quality  problems and improve their processes to meet quality and delivery requirements.

Duties and Responsibilities

Immediate:

• Support and participate in our manufacturing activities to understand the robot and its testing
• Create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the manufacture of existing and new released designs
• Ensure this is the adopted current best way of performing our work

Developing into:

• Implementation of Standardised Work based on standard work sequences and cycle times
• Continuously improve our processes
• Working with Purchasing on the implementation of new designs and procurement of new parts
• Working with the manufacturing director and other stakeholders to create efficient processes to support direct manufacturing. E.g. calibration and measurement, Production Parts Approval Processes (PPAP) etc.

Desirable characteristics

• Attention to detail, and able to identify which details need to be added
• Disciplined, thrives in cadenced environments, has a sense of urgency
• Sets and works towards sensible milestones
• Likes simple solutions
• Follows the scientific method and is data driven in problem solving
• Able to draw correct balance between following process and knowing when to intervene/escalate problems
• Personable, emotionally intelligent, confident talking to suppliers, design authorities 

If you would like to apply, please send your cover letter and C.V. to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com addressed to Sarah.

No recruitment agencies please.

Overview of the role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team and help us to increase the speed and quality of our software & machine learning releases, as well as helping us to automate and improve the reliability and security of our data processing pipelines and our back-end systems.

This role will work closely with our Software CTO, and alongside our Linux Systems Administrator to simplify, standardise and automate our workflows, both internal support systems as well as external customer-facing systems.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop and manage software and automation solutions (including CI/CD pipelines) to help increase the velocity of the Software and Machine Learning teams.
• Lead the way in replacing and obsoleting manually managed on-premise servers and services, and replacing them by IaC (Infrastructure as Code) alternatives.
• Be metrics driven to ensure that we can assess and improve on scalability, reliability, observability, and security aspects of our systems.
• Implement automated deployment pipelines and configuration management tools to streamline the deployment process.

Desirable Characteristics (strong candidates are likely to tick most – but not necessary all – of these)

• 5+ years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Previous start-up or scale-up experience.
• Strong understanding – and hands on experience of – DevOps principles.
• Hands-on experience with the following tech stack: Linux, Docker, Python, AWS, Azure DevOps.
• Strong communication skills.
• Proficient in scripting languages for automation tasks.

We are looking for a candidate available to start as soon as possible.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com addressed to Sarah.

No recruitment agencies please.

Overview of the role

The successful applicant will help us to translate our Engineering plans into practice and bring experience and best practice Software Engineering principles to the business.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the way – and be a strong advocate of – best practice software design patterns, software architecture and agile methodology.
• Take a lead in our effort to re-architect and harden our code to prepare for 10x-100x scale.
• Mentor junior software engineers.
• Help the team to find the right balance between strong principles and pragmatism; and help the team to inform “buy vs build” decisions.
• Be the standard bearer for code quality (including software test coverage and maintainability of code).
  

Desirable Characteristics (strong candidates are likely to tick most – but not necessary all – of these)

• 10+ years’ experience in software engineering.
• 10+ years’ experience with C# and .NET.
• Previous experience with Linux, Python and Azure DevOps.
• Previous experience in both start-ups / scale-ups and larger organisations.
• Strong communication skills.
• Previous experience in robotics or other hardware-based products.

We are looking for a candidate available to start as soon as possible.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com addressed to Sarah.

No recruitment agencies please. 

We are looking for a highly motivated, curious and hard working individual that would fit within our outstanding multidisciplinary team. You can be a university student or a recent graduate, passionate about technology and eager to improve the state of UK and European agriculture and technology. Your work will contribute to addressing world-wide food security through the means of scalable and autonomous fruit-picking robots.

Overview of the role

You will work alongside our software and test engineers, delivering and improving various software products, such as dashboards that analyse robot performance, Computer Vision and Machine Learning infrastructure and applications, software to manufacture and test robot parts, and of course the core logic for selecting and picking strawberries.

Duties and responsibilities

• Take responsibility to build and maintain applications relevant to the software team.
• Visit customer sites and provide engineering support, as well as collect feedback from the field to improve our products.
• Support other engineers in their work.
• Help with performance analysis and improvement of our robots, utilise and advance our performance models.
• Give periodic presentations on the work you’ve done.

Desirable characteristics

• Pragmatic, first-principals approach to analytical problem solving.
• Strong degree in STEM, with knowledge of statistics, linear algebra, analysis.
• Experience with robotics, hardware or firmware.
• Willingness to give and receive honest, impartial feedback.
• Experience with programming languages such as C#, python, SQL, bash.
• Ability to learn quickly and effectively in a variety of fields.
• Strong communication skills, ability to defend your point of view and consider other opinions.
• Interest in cutting edge technology.

To apply, please send your CV and cover letter to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com addressed to Sarah.

No recruitment agencies please.

We receive a great deal of interest from recruitment agencies, we do appreciate the desire to work with us. We advertise current job vacancies on our website to enable potential candidates interested in joining our team to connect directly with us. 

When direct sourcing is not possible, we may opt to engage a recruitment agency from our preferred supplier list.

If you feel you have a candidate who fits the requirements outlined in a job advertised on our website, we kindly request that you send their CV for review exclusively to recruitment@dogtoothtech.com.

If we would like to discuss further with you, we will be in touch.

Thank you in advance.

We are looking for a talented lead electronics engineer to head our electronics delivery, working as part of our exceptionally skilled and multi-disciplinary technology team. You will be responsible for (i) developing all electronic sub-systems used within our robots, including those for 3D imaging, sensor monitoring, safety management, and motor control, (ii) compliance with the relevant CE and EMC regulations as defined by our quality engineer, (iii) managing the electronics development process. (iv) managing the electronics roadmap

Duties & Responsibilities

• Oversee the electronics roadmap
• Manage electronics development projects
• Design new electronic sub-systems
• Own the electrical and electronics system design
• Mentor our talented junior electronics design engineer
• Run and develop our established release process
• Develop designs to scale manufacture
• Define quality plans for manufacturing handover
• Oversee outsourced contracts as necessary (e.g. PCB layout, EMC test houses)
• Meet CE requirements for EMC, electrical safety and operator safety with requirements defined by our quality and standards engineer

  Desirable Experience & Characteristics

• Design for EMC, manufacture, and test
• Mixed signal circuit design, commissioning, and test
• Power electrical and motor drive
• Using EDA software (we use Eagle)
• Progressing designs to volume manufacture
• A high quality degree and >10 years of experience
• Project management experience essential.
• Excellent communication skills to communicate and understand interfaces with the many different disciplines in our robot
• Keenness to lead a discipline area

To apply, please send your C.V. and cover letter to Sarah Kersey at recruitment@dogtoothtech.com.