Opportunities at Captain AI

Captain AI is a young and ambitious maritime start-up aiming to develop the world’s first digital captain. Located at RDM Rotterdam, one of the coolest workplaces in the Netherlands, we are right in the middle of the biggest port of Europe. The unique location combined with the ambitious team makes for a unique and incredibly motivating setting.

Vacancies

Interested in working at Captain AI? We are looking for talented people with the following background (EU residents or EU working permit holders only)

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Who are we?

We are Captain AI, a group of enthusiastic engineers and scientists putting their heart into developing software to achieve full autonomous shipping. Our office and test-area is located in the busiest port of Europe, Rotterdam.

Captain AI has been paving the way for ship-autonomy since 2017. From the start of our journey until now we have achieved many milestones. We’ve demonstrated remote-control on a Watertaxi, shown autonomous operation on the Borkum (one of our test vessels) and now have access to other cool vessels.

To further our current goals we need your help!

Your role would be to support the team in developing algorithms to model the environment around a vessel based on sensor inputs such as radar, cameras, AIS (a marine positioning system), and other sensors. We are currently collecting such datasets from several real-world vessels, structuring and visualizing them in the cloud. Your role would be to create pipelines that ingest these datasets, clean and structure them, and use them for training and deploying predictive models.

The job allows you to grow personally and further develop yourself and the company’s growth. We enjoy working hard but also take time to celebrate achievements!

What you’ll be doing

As machine learning engineers, we expect you to understand the problem we are trying to solve at a high level and develop appropriate technical solutions. We value people who can iterate quickly, trying out a few solutions before settling on the best one given time constraints.

  • Collaborate on developing machine learning solutions to extract high-level information from different sensor inputs, for example, detecting ships in radar or camera.
  • Leverage historical information for a better understanding of vessel motion
  • Leverage a high fidelity simulator for data generation on edge-case scenarios

Required Qualifications

  • Master degree in ML/DL, computer science or equivalent real world experience
  • 1-2 years of experience working in a commercial machine learning (or similar) role
  • Experience with developing, deploying, and monitoring machine learning models
  • Familiarity with both scripted languages and compiled languages
  • Experience using frameworks like Torch (PyTorch) and TensorFlow
  • Team player with excellent communication skills
  • Analytical thinking and pragmatic problem-solving capability

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3-4 years of experience working in a commercial machine learning (or similar) role
  • Affinity with hardware, the physical world and a strong drive to ‘make stuff work’

What we offer

We are building an international ambitious team, at an inspiring location. We offer a good salary, pension, a employee participation plan, free lunch, flexible working hours and many other perks.

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Experienced Full Stack Developer

Experienced full stack developer

Help visualise our journey into autonomous shipping!

Who are we?

We are Captain AI, a group of enthusiastic engineers and scientists putting their heart into developing software to achieve full autonomous shipping. Our office and test-area is located in the busiest port of Europe, Rotterdam.

Captain AI has been paving the way for ship-autonomy since 2017. From the start of our journey until now we have achieved many milestones. We’ve demonstrated remote-control on a Watertaxi, shown autonomous operation on the Borkum (one of our test vessels).

To further our current goals we need your help! We’re on the precipice of incorporating our perception stack and we need you to, among other things, further develop our cloud platform to manage and visualize our services and ship data which will enable us to get to the next stage in our journey.

What you’ll be doing

  • Designing and implementing a user interface for management and visualization of ship fleets, their sensors and our implemented autonomy data.
  • Develop a backend web-server and database solution to support our cloud infrastructure.
  • Setup continuous integration solutions.
  • Build a platform that is intuitive to use and new features that are easy to learn.
  • Work closely with machine learning engineers to enable R&D efforts and improve existing systems.
  • Drive best practices in our React, NodeJS stack.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent real world experience
  • Experience developing React frontend applications
  • Experience working with NodeJS
  • Capability to design and create user interfaces including graphical elements and CSS implementations
  • Ability to work with SQL databases
  • Ability to communicate English professionally

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge and ability to work with Kubernetes
  • Experienced with Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience with Python development and data science

What we offer

We are building an international ambitious team, at an inspiring location. We offer a good salary and flexible working hours.

Apply now

Junior / Medior front-end developer

Junior/medior Front-End Developer

Help visualise our journey into autonomous shipping!

Who are we?

We are Captain AI, a group of enthusiastic engineers and scientists putting their heart into developing software to achieve full autonomous shipping. Our office and test-area is located in the busiest port of Europe, Rotterdam.

Captain AI has been paving the way for ship-autonomy since 2017. From the start of our journey until now we have achieved many milestones. We’ve demonstrated remote-control on a Watertaxi, shown autonomous operation on the Borkum (one of our test vessels).

To further our current goals we need your help! We’re on the precipice of incorporating our perception stack and we need you to, among other things, further develop our cloud platform to manage and visualize our services and ship data which will enable us to get to the next stage in our journey.

What you’ll be doing

  • Designing and implementing a user interface for management and visualization of ship fleets, their sensors and our implemented autonomy data.
  • Build a platform that is intuitive to use and new features that are easy to learn.
  • Work closely with machine learning engineers to enable R&D efforts and improve existing systems.
  • Drive best practices in our React front end solution.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent real world experience
  • Experience developing frontend applications with javascript frameworks.
  • Capability to design and create user interfaces including graphical elements and CSS implementations
  • Ability to communicate English professionally

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working with React
  • Experience working with Node.js
  • Experienced with Google Cloud Platform
  • Experience with SQL databases.

What we offer

We are building an international ambitious team, at an inspiring location. We offer a good salary and flexible working hours.

Apply now

Internships

Interested in an internship? We are looking for students (located in the Netherlands) in the following fields:

Systems & Control and Robotics

Systems & Control and Robotics

We are looking for students in this field in helping out by doing internships. Are you such a student and if you are interested in developing a dynamics model of a ship, doing motion, trajectory or path planning, please contact us. If you are just interested in what we do and want to see if there’s a possibility to try something related that you thought of that might benefit us as well, let us know! We are quite flexible when it comes to internships, and we might be able to work something out

This internship requires working on site at our office in Rotterdam.

AI and Computer Science

AI and Computer Science

In general we are looking for students that have a background in AI and Computer Science. We can work together with you, and possibly your professor, to find a suitable internship. Just send us a message to see what’s possible.

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