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Our people are seasoned expeditionary scientists and explorers, best-of-class engineers and software developers, a highly-dynamic team able to perform dedicated, high-quality work.

Our mission

Delivering autonomous underwater systems and data solutions.

SUNFISH Inc. is a Texas-based company dedicated to the development and servicing of autonomous underwater vehicles and software for the science, government and commercial sectors. We are a novel, lean, fast moving, and cutting-edge team. We strive to change the way things are done, cut red tape, and get reliable hardware and software in the field rapidly.

Current Positions

We are currently not hiring for any positions at this time but please check back as we do have openings at different times of the year.

Robotics Programmer Internship

Full-time, temporary, internship

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We're looking for a new team member to intern with us as a Robotics Programmer at our cutting-edge startup working to bring new underwater robotic capabilities to market. A candidate should have 2-3 years of education and/or experience, preferably in an artificial intelligence field, and must be able to perform dedicated, high-quality work while fitting into our highly dynamic team. This is an on-site position at our "Robot Ranch" just outside Austin, Texas. Sunfish Inc provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. We value diversity and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply, even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications.

Only U.S. citizens and current green card holders are eligible for this position.

Position Structure:

Depending on the candidate’s skills, experience, and preference, this position may be structured as either an internship or co-op. In an internship structure, the position duration will be 3 months and pay will be hourly and without benefits. A Co-op position must be run through a student’s university, would have a 6 month duration, and compensation would be through a salary and benefits package.

Position duties:
- Design, development, analysis, and test advanced robotic software and data processing systems.
- Ensure proper documentation of designs, code, and procedures.
- Assist in developing unit and integration tests.
- Aid in software development infrastructure maintenance and improvements (e.g. updating provisioning systems, improving continuous integration).
- Aid in proposal preparation tasks (preparing diagrams, figures, text descriptions).
Required traits:
- Fluent with linux, python, ROS, C/C++.
- Experience with computer vision or machine learning for field robotics or similarly structured data environments.
- Motivated to help solve complex problems during design, development, and test.
- Ability to communicate effectively among team members both on site and distributed.
- Works in a meticulous and thorough manner, pays attention to detail.
- Results-oriented.
- Ability to own a piece of a project and see it to completion.
- Motivation to learn and act independently with guidance as needed.
- Willing to learn new skills, wear multiple hats, and work on different types of projects.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
- US citizenship or permanent residency required.
Desirable traits:
- Experience analyzing complex data sets utilizing statistical, supervised, and unsupervised machine learning techniques
- Experience with realistic data generation techniques such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
- Experience extracting 3D data from images.
- Experience with pose graph optimization theory.
- Experience with implementing code on hardware, including embedded development (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, etc.)
In your cover letter, please describe your software development experience and particularly note experience of any type with: machine learning, field robotics, or underwater applications.