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 the RDM in 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.

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

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
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.

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)
Experienced Full Stack Developer

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. This year 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.  

How to apply?

Do you recognize yourself in this job description? Send your CV and cover letter to vincent@captainai.com with the subject line ‘Vacancy Full-stack developer’.

Contact us!