Hardware Engineer
About the role
Hardware Engineer role at OctaPulse to develop field-ready, sealed, reliable hardware for harsh environments in aquaculture; focus on turning prototypes into qualified products and repeatable install kits, with on-site work in Dallas, TX and up to 20-25% travel.
Responsibilities
- Field-ready hardware, qualified. Take our designs from prototype to a released product that survives harsh, wet environments, and prove it with a real test campaign rather than hope.
- Reliable hardware in the field. Make our hardware dependable and easy to set up and maintain, wherever it is installed.
- Measuring wet, shiny fish. Help our vision hardware see wet, reflective, moving animals clearly and consistently, and characterize how it behaves on the real thing.
- Repeatable install kits. Make installs repeatable, with clear documentation. Work with machine shops and suppliers to get parts made right. Then go on site, install them and learn what breaks.
Qualifications
- Shipped hardware that lives outside a lab: outdoors, in a plant, on a vehicle or at sea
- Comfortable with mechanical design for sealing and harsh environments
- Comfortable with electronics for reliable field hardware
- Good with power, cabling, connectors and grounding
- Methodical about testing; able to write and execute a qualification plan
- Willing to travel up to 20-25% of the time to farms and processing plants
- Able to work on-site in Dallas, TX (Frisco area)
Skills
About OctaPulse
CV and robotics to automate quality inspection in fish farms
OctaPulse uses AI vision to automate hatchery QA for fish farms, starting with broodstock phenotyping and juvenile deformity inspection. We cut inspection time from about 5 minutes to under 30 seconds per fish, with more than 90 percent accuracy, so farms advance only high quality fish and waste less feed and labor. Our goal is to bring automation across the entire fish production lifecycle for the $300B aquaculture industry. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector, and has already surpassed commercial fishing for production of seafood. Yet two of the most critical QA and QC steps in fish production are still done by hand: phenotyping and deformity inspection. These processes are slow, error prone, and despised by technicians but vital for the success of the farm, so much so that farms spend >$200K a year on trained technicians and geneticists to operate. We’ve built an AI vision platform for vertically integrated finfish farms that drops into existing workflows starting in the hatchery, uses off the shelf cameras, standardizes these QA steps, and creates a proprietary multi species dataset that becomes the brain for future autonomous aquafarms. Phenotyping is the start, but the platform is designed to be a drop in solution that can easily expand into feeding, health monitoring, and processing so we can solve production problems across the lifecycle. We signed a 6-figure paid pilot with the largest trout producer in the United States, are deploying into 2 more farms early 2026, and trained models above 90 percent accuracy while cutting inspection time from 5 minutes to under 30 seconds. Each deployment adds labeled images to our dataset and improves cross species generalization.
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