Hardware Engineer

About the Company -  EyeROV

EyeROV, India's first indigenous manufacturer of commercial underwater drone/ROV based in Kochi, Kerala, the heart of maritime activities. EyeROV is a young and dynamic workspace envisioned to bring deeptech, robotics technologies to the space of Marine and Energy Sector. Within this short span of 7 years, the company has delivered world-class products and solutions to its various clients such as BPCL, DRDO, Indian Railways, Maersk, NHDC etc... The company is funded by GAIL and BPCL, Kochouseph Chittilappilly (founder of V-Guard and Wonderla Group of Companies) as investors. The company is supported by Maker Village and Kerala Startup Mission. 

EyeROV was founded in 2016 by IIT Alumnus Johns T Mathai (IIT Delhi) and Kannappa Palaniappan P (IIT Madras). The company has won numerous awards including National Startup Award 2021 by TDB, Department of Science & Technology, Best Tech Design Award in 2020 by IAMAI (Internet & Mobile Association of India), Selected as one of the Top 6 Startup of the yearIndywoods Billionaires Club, Top 8 Industrial Start-up of India from IIGP 2018 organized by Lockheed Martin, MIT, TATA Trust, IIMA and DST and has represented India in USA and Japan for various startup events.

Location : Kochi (Work From Office)

Position Summary

Engineers in this role will design and develop hardware used in EyeROV marine robotics products and solutions while supporting the manufacture and testing of existing designs. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers to ensure the system design meets system and subsystem requirements, and you will be responsible for implementing, testing, and validating custom hardware systems for our robot platforms.

About The Work

• Work closely with electromechanical, software, and manufacturing teams to conceptualize, specify, and implement electrical architectures for new product development, including multi-stage integrated robotic systems.

• Significant focus on Mixed signal design of embedded systems, including schematic and board layout, PCBA testing, integration of existing sub-systems, and new systems.

• Rapid prototyping and integration of electrical systems at both system and board levels.

• Specify and select electrical components such as power supplies, servo drives, sensors, and safety systems for robotics.

• Optimisation of the power consumption, power budgeting, transmission loss for underwater ROV, and future product lines of the company.

• Participate in the debugging and root cause analysis related to hardware and software defect resolution.

• Interface with internal and external manufacturing teams to enhance design for test, manufacturing, and assembly

• Involved in Product Documentation, Product Training, Tracking & fixing of Product issues.

About You:

• Graduate or Postgraduate in Electrical/Electronics or related Engineering branches

• 3-5 years of industry experience in a professional and product-driven environment.

• Have a proactive attitude and a professional approach in working with a multi-disciplinary, skilled team.

• Strong domain knowledge in Power and Mixed signal electronics.

• Strong knowledge of schematic capture and PCB layout using any EDA package such as Altium, OrCAD, KiCAD, etc.

• Practical knowledge and experience in designing circuits for embedded systems and power electronics.

• Hands-on experience with board bring-up and hardware testing.

• Knowledge of interfacing of actuators like BLDC Motors and sensors using industrial protocols like TCP/IP, CAN, RS485, RS232, USB, etc.

• Excellent understanding of PCB layout and design techniques for EMC compliance.

Preferred to have:

• Experienced in end-to-end product development life cycle.

• Worked on Robotics projects or participated in robotics competitions before