Working within our small Manufacturing team you will spend:

• 3 days a week on the road for safe, timely, and efficient transportation of robot parts/robots between company facilities and customer locations (approx 180 miles driving in a day). 
• 2 days a week assisting the Manufacturing team building & testing new strawberry picking robots as well as repairing, refurbishing and upgrading our existing fleet.  

Robot delivery roles & responsibilities:

• Using our 4×4 & trailer to load/unload/deliver robot parts and robots both locally and to/from Lincolnshire
• Following Standard Operating procedures and Health & Safety guidance for unloading and loading
• Safely operate company vehicles in accordance with the Highway Code and UK road legislation
• Conduct daily vehicle inspections and report maintenance issues promptly
• Communicate effectively with the Dogtooth team, 3rd party warehouse staff, and customers 

Manufacturing Team assistance roles & responsibilities:

• Preparing sub-assemblies
• Replenishing materials to build areas

Characteristics, skills and experience we are looking for:

• Over 25 years old with a clean UK driving license
• Experience driving a trailer (preferred)
• Good work ethic
• Punctuality and dependability
• Ability to be flexible and work as part of a team
• Interest in manufacturing & technology
• Logistical or warehousing experience is a bonus
• Eligible to work in the UK.

2 month role – Beginning February to End of March 2026 – with possibility of continuation

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

No recruitment agencies please

Working within a small team, you will contribute to building and testing new strawberry picking robots as well as repairing, refurbishing and upgrading our existing fleet.  

• Mechanical and electrical assembly with PCBAs, sensors, cables, motors and transmission mechanisms.  This will be following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) deployed in cellular manufacturing utilising standardised work. 
• System test on newly assembled modules and whole robots, including active performance measurement and diagnostic fault finding.
• Test and diagnosis of issues on Installed Based (IB) equipment as part of our Repair, Refurbishment and Upgrade (RRU) process.  This may be as simple as wear part replacement, a software update or a major dismantling and rebuild with a mechatronic subsystem replacement.

Contract until end of March 2026

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Build and test of new modules and robots as described above following SOPs in which you will be trained
• Carry out activities in our RRU processes on our IB as described above
• Receive on the job lean manufacturing and problem solving training
• Participate in our 5s works organisation and daily management (short interval control) stand-up meetings
• Raise and resolve bugs involving rework and problem solving of both our products and processes
• Operate our inventory processes and identify exceptions to its operation
• Participate in kaizen improvement events

Characteristics, skills and experience we are looking for:

• Post-18 study in an engineering / science subject – or an ambition to do so!
• Hands-on technical experience in a related field
• Interest in manufacturing & technology
• Mechanical dexterity
• Disciplined with strong sense of urgency
• Problem solving skills
• Good work ethic and ability to work as part of a team
• Eligible to work in the UK

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

No recruitment agencies please.

Overview of the role

You will work in our software team with the 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.
• One to two years relevant work experience.
• 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.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet all of the desirable qualifications. If you meet many of the requirements and are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply.

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 talented Manufacturing Team Leader (TL) to help drive the Manufacturing scale-up of our rapidly growing technology business.

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

Overview of Role

Working within a small team, you will lead the other technicians to deliver a plan of new equipment build and test, and the repair, refurbishment and upgrade of existing fleet equipment.  As a rapidly growing business, you will need to develop a plan for the expansion of production capacity and developing robust capabilities.

In order to do this, you will need to ensure that 

• Safety and 5s standards are adhered to and improved where necessary
• Build instructions are followed and cross-trained 
• Production plans are made and delivered upon
• Continuous improvement opportunities are acted upon appropriately
• Work is standardised

Duties and Responsibilities

• Take a hands-on role in our manufacturing activities to understand the robot and its build and testing.
• Manage and augment our team of technicians.
• Ensure documentation gets adopted via our skills matrix.
• Support the creation of methods and documentation for the manufacture of new and existing products. 

Qualifications / Experience

• Post-18 study in an engineering/ops management/science subject.
• Supervisory experience.
• Hands-on technical experience in a related field.
• Recruiting / building work team.
• Demonstrable success with root cause problem solving.
• Full clean driving licence.
• Must be able to work in the UK.

Desirable Characteristics

• Disciplined, with a strong sense of urgency.
• Attention to detail, and able to identify which further requisite detail to pursue next.
• Understands and is comfortable with the tradeoffs between organisational capabilities and team building.
• Sets and works towards sensible, challenging milestones.
• Able to draw the correct balance between following process and knowing when to intervene and/or escalate problems.
• Data driven in problem solving.
• Personable, emotionally intelligent.
• Likes simple solutions.
• Happy to work wherever Genba is.

Key Relationships

• Reports to the Manufacturing Director.
• Works with Manufacturing Engineers to transfer products to manufacture.
• Works with our customer facing team (ops engineers, site managers) to ensure manufacturing remains close to our customers.
• Works with Buyer Planner to ensure robust production plans are made and delivered upon.
• Works with technicians to ensure their development i.e. skills matrix coverage to match business needs.

Performance Measurement

Dogtooth operates daily management.  As a member of the manufacturing leadership team, you will be responsible for delivering against targets:

• Safety – Incidents and near misses
• Delivery – On time delivery to plan, jointly with the planner/buyer
• Productivity – Direct labour productivity measured against standardised work

Additionally, you will support your colleagues

• Quality – using and improving methods and documentation
• Inventory – operating and contributing to the improvement of shop floor inventory systems

Available to a successful candidate

• In depth training in lean manufacturing.
• Development opportunities for a senior manufacturing management leadership role.
• See the entire life cycle of robots from conception to product support in their installed base.
• Be part of a rapidly growing hardware manufacturing business.
• Bring your dog to work.

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

No recruitment agencies please

Dogtooth stood out to me for two reasons: its innovative approach to agricultural robotics, and the genuine enthusiasm I felt from the team during the interview process. The company wasn’t just building robots — it was building solutions for complex, real-world challenges, like improving efficiency and reducing labour pressures in farming. The chance to work on systems that operate in such dynamic, unpredictable environments was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.

Over the course of my internship, I had the privilege of working on a wide variety of projects. Some of these were highly technical — developing tools for performance analysis, improving data processing pipelines, and refining algorithms to make our robots more reliable in the field. Other work was more exploratory, such as testing and iterating new features that pushed our systems closer to production readiness. One of my favourite projects was developing a tool that measured performance of the robot’s abilities to pick strawberries at a permutation of approach vectors. It was challenging, often involving digging deep into messy real-world data and teasing out the story hidden inside. But the satisfaction of seeing something you’ve built make life easier for the rest of the team — that’s hard to beat.

In my time here, I’ve learned an incredible amount — not just about robotics and software engineering, but about problem-solving in the face of uncertainty. Technical skills aside, one of the biggest lessons has been learning how to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team. Dogtooth’s engineers, designers, and field teams all bring different perspectives, and the company culture encourages collaboration and open discussion. I’ve also developed soft skills I know will serve me well in the future — from communicating complex technical issues clearly, to taking ownership of my work, to adapting quickly when things don’t go to plan (which, in robotics, they sometimes don’t!).

The work environment here is something special. There’s a real sense of camaraderie; people are not only highly skilled but also genuinely invested in helping each other grow. Mentors have been generous with their time and knowledge, and I’ve always felt trusted to contribute meaningfully. Even on the busiest days, there’s room for humour, problem-solving together over a whiteboard, or celebrating small wins as a team.

Looking back, some of my highlights include seeing our robots successfully navigate tricky conditions in the field, debugging a stubborn problem moments before a test deadline, and those satisfying moments when code you’ve written suddenly “just works” after hours of troubleshooting. Each challenge overcome has been a step forward — not just for the project, but for my own development as an engineer.

Now, as I prepare to leave Dogtooth to pursue a PhD in Defence and Security, I feel incredibly grateful for the experience. My time here has reinforced the value of working on challenging, real-world problems alongside talented people who are passionate about what they do.

For future interns considering Dogtooth, my advice is simple: say yes. You’ll be trusted with real responsibility, you’ll learn faster than you think possible, and you’ll leave with skills and experiences that will shape the rest of your career. It’s a place where curiosity is valued, initiative is rewarded, and where the work you do has a tangible impact.

Thank you, Dogtooth, for the opportunity, the challenges, and the memories. It’s been a privilege to be part of the team, and hopefully our paths shall cross again.

🙂

The Cambridge 50th Cub Pack joined us for an action-packed visit filled with hands-on learning and exploration. The Cubs rotated through a series of activity stations in small groups. They got creative with a design challenge aimed at solving real problems in crop surveying, and ventured into the polytunnel for a paired hand–eye coordination game and a mini pick-your-own punnet session. They also had the opportunity to control robotic arms in our “arm farm,” getting a feel for the technology we use in the field. While there weren’t any patents granted, a few Dogtooth branded caps were proudly awarded — and the strawberry ice-cream we made from our surplus strawberries certainly went down well.

There’s real value in giving young people the chance to see our robots up close, and to show that in addition to plastic, copper and steel, the modern world is built from genius, enthusiasm, hard work – and fun!

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.

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. 

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.