Vacancies

As project manager you will:
*Source information from all disciplines and departments as input for creating roadmaps and the company strategy plan, and next to this ensure this process runs smoothly. Once created, you will convert this into objectives, key results and KPI’s.
*Debrief, document the project outline and scope and the choices made.
*Address and highlight challenges.
*Organize sprints and retrospectives.
*Be responsible to organize, coordinate and plan all project activities: time, money, quality, organisation, information to management and stakeholders and risks.
Plan all test- and demonstration activities together with our application manager and support those activities in the field (dirty hands!).
*Organise, facilitate and control all actions necessary to let your team work smoothly; e.g. arrange transport.
*Be involved in the production set up for industrialisation: contacting suppliers, determine make or buy decisions, etc.
*Outlines the internal processes.

Odd.Bot is looking for a linkin’ pin, a manager that can help with the cross-functional disciplines of project/product/office management to support the business as it plans to go to market.

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Mechanical Designer who can analyse the construction of the current robot and work with the rest of the team on the next version. In this position you will have to design and test improvements for the robot, as well as make proven prototypes ready for mass production.

We are seeking an experienced Sr. Mechatronics Engineer who can analyse the dynamics and control software of the current robot. The main goal is to make our robot remove weeds faster, more effectively, and as robust as possible. A part of this process will require you to go to the fields and work on the robot directly. You must be able to estimate the risks, costs, and development time of any suggested improvement, and you need to communicate efficiently with our Mechanical and Software Engineering teams and suppliers.

We are seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to ensure our development code can easily evolve into production code. This position will include analysing our current setup and codebase and suggesting and implementing improvements to make it more robust. Additionally, considering it’s all about the robot, you will at times work with the robot directly on the field. You will have to analyse its performance in the real world and determine improvement points. Once found, you should be able to communicate the action points effectively to the software team and others, and make accurate estimations of the required development time.

We are seeking a Robot Network Engineer that enables all our hardware components to communicate flawlessly and securely. Our communication network is part local between the components on the robot itself, as well as online, sending data back to our servers. This position will include keeping a detailed overview of connected components and dependencies between, as well as evaluating and improving the current setup.

We are seeking a Sr. Web Developer to help us develop our customer-facing portal. In this position you will be responsible for creating the interface through which the farmers can see the state of their field, together with all the relevant metadata that our robots were able to gather.

We are looking for a Sr. Sales Representative who can pitch our weeding approach to farmers in the Netherlands and abroad. We intend to revolutionise organic farming in all of Europe, and we realise this will require some convincing. We will need someone who can effectively transfer our belief in our weeding robot to others, and who can find out where and how we can most effectively reach new customers.

We are looking for an Agronomist who can help us see the weeding process from the field’s perspective, to support the innovation at Odd.Bot. Your technical input and arguments will be of important value to support your colleagues. This position will include determining how we can more effectively remove weeds, as well as better mitigate damage to crops and soil. You will combine your agronomic expertise with your knowledge in agricultural machinery to support the team for engineering and testing activities. You will also set up and carry out various research about the robot performances in the field. Understanding the impact of the changing environment and weather conditions on the performance of the robot will be of great importance. On top of that, the Agronomist Field specialist will have interest in understanding the needs of the clients and farmers thus to support the decision making during strategic phases of the product development process.

Wij zijn op zoek naar een HR duizendpoot met minstens twee jaren ervaring die weet welke uitdagingen een hightech start up met zich meebrengt en iemand die energie krijgt van de dynamiek van een organisatie in ontwikkeling. Als HR Manager voel je je thuis in een cultuur die open en informeel is en je begrijpt en onderschrijft ook dat veel HR werkzaamheden remote gedaan kunnen worden maar dat regelmatige fysieke aanwezigheid nodig is om je functie goed te kunnen doen.

We worden blij als jij, als HR Expert, ons kan helpen te groeien naar een groter, sterker en serieuzer bedrijf. Zeer belangrijk is het recruteren van nieuwe medewerkers, stagiaires en afstudeerders: Odd.Bot is een snelgroeiende organisatie.

We at Odd.Bot aim to remove weeds using environmentally friendly solutions, currently we mechanically grip and remove the weeds with a robotic arm. But we are also looking into quicker, more efficient methods in which laser removal is a promising concept. The student would develop concepts for a subsystem which can point a laser beam at the location of the weed determined by our machine learning algorithm. Securing accuracy, robustness and safety in a moist and harsh environment would be the main challenge to tackle.

Odd.Bot’s current implementation focusses on autonomous crop and weed detection to mechanically remove the latter. The assignment would include research into which data to collect and using which sensors to allow crop health monitoring. Think of photosynthesis, water content, fungus or disease detection using for example UV or infrared cameras. The student can use the results from this research to order hardware and write preliminary code that extracts this data and test it on different kinds of plants. If time allows, it can even be implemented on one of the current Odd.Bot prototypes.

Each year we produce and test more advanced versions of our weeding robots. This internship concerns controlling and overseeing robots on the field, recording and reporting their performance. Whilst on the field, interviews with farmers and other stakeholders could also be conducted. Then, based on your experience you can then join the conversation on how to best improve the robot for next season. If time allows, research into crop health and soil compaction could also be part of this internship.