Underwater drone design and rental for seabed mapping and research
Lobster Robotics designs and manufactures underwater drones for seabed intelligence, operating out of Delft since 2021. The tech stack reveals a hardware-heavy engineering operation: CAD tools (KiCAD, Altium, Eagle, Cadence Virtuoso, Synopsys), embedded systems (C++, Rust, Python, Linux), and wireless protocols (LoRa). Active hiring is concentrated in senior and mid-level engineers across embedded systems, perception, and autonomy—a hiring pattern matched to their project roadmap of bare-metal microcontroller work, underwater CMOS IC design, and autonomous navigation, suggesting movement from prototype toward production-grade systems.
Lobster Robotics manufactures fully integrated underwater drones for environmental assessment, habitat monitoring, and fisheries research. The company operates a rental model, delivering high-resolution seabed imagery and geo-referenced data to clients in environmental studies, aquaculture, and marine research sectors. Product architecture combines custom robotics hardware (perception, propulsion, embedded control), wireless communication (LoRa), and onboard data processing. The organization is 11–50 people, based in Delft, Netherlands, and is navigating the transition from prototype-stage systems to operationally reliable platforms for mission-critical marine surveys.
Hardware design (Cadence Virtuoso, Synopsys Custom Compiler, KiCAD, Altium, Eagle); embedded software (C++, Rust, Python, Linux); wireless (LoRa). Focus on analog/mixed-signal IC design and embedded systems for underwater autonomy.
Underwater perception and mapping, bare-metal microcontroller applications, CMOS IC design, autonomous navigation, path planning, environment modeling, and embedded Linux sensor drivers for production seabed survey systems.
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