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We’re scaling from small, surge-built batches of robots to continuous, high-volume production. Your mission is to “McDonaldise” our manufacturing: build processes so clear and robust that a new team member can be assembling C-Star parts confidently within an hour.
You’ll ideally join in January, learn the ropes during our next fleet build, then lead production of our new concept design (small batch) and a larger 50-unit customer delivery over the following six months. You’ll start as a team of one, with part-time builders, working closely with the executive and engineering teams to build a smooth, scalable production operation.
What you’ll do
* Own the full manufacturing lifecycle: sourcing, supplier management, QC, assembly, testing, and commissioning sea trials.
* Build and refine processes, SOPs, and quality controls that make production repeatable and teachable.
* Lead mechanical and electronics assembly, including 3D-printing workflows and post-processing, improving speed, repeatability, and cost as we scale.
* Balance one-off R&D builds with scalable production, and provide design-for-manufacture feedback into engineering.
* Build and lead a small production team, managing priorities and timelines. Early on, you’ll be hands‑on and building robots yourself.
* Contribute to high‑level decisions on scaling strategy, facility layout, tooling and investments.
Package
* Salary: Competitive + meaningful stock options. We’re open to a wide range of candidates and can reward compensation accordingly
* Location: In person at our Plymouth waterfront office & workshop
Who you are
* Organised and methodical. You take satisfaction in building clean, reliable processes.
* Experienced in hands‑on hardware production: whether from a startup, marine yard, fabrication shop, or similar environment.
* Comfortable moving between the bench and the boardroom. You can build a fixture one day and present a scaling plan the next.
* Confident leading people: in a workshop, factory line, crew, or any practical environment.
* Curious and resourceful, with a builder’s mindset and the drive to improve systems every time you touch them.
Why Oshen
The ocean is still a blind spot for the planet, there’s no persistent, wide‑area sensing network. Solving this requires nodes that are mass‑deployable, persistent, and navigable. Persistence means surviving multi‑month missions through the worst winter storms. Navigability means reliably going from A→B or holding station. And mass deployment means units must be small, low‑cost, and easy to field in swarms.
Oshen is the only company to have solved all three. Our one‑metre ocean robots have completed multi‑month missions, navigated autonomously at sea, and are the only surface robots in the world known to have sailed into, and survived, a Category 5 hurricane.
We’re signing new contracts rapidly and expanding the team to meet demand. You’ll be joining at an inflection point, where your work helps lay the foundations of a global ocean network that moves missions, customers, and climate science forward.
Our hiring process
* Apply: Apply on hiring.oshendata.com
* Step 1: 15‑minute intro call
* Step 2: Detailed interview
* Final: Half‑day with the Oshen team in Plymouth (expenses covered)
Applications close
Applications close on the 28th November. We encourage early applicants.
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