TainData

We have a short-term need for one or more contractors who can help us with circuit board design and C firmware programming for IoT data monitoring/control devices for agricultural applications, using Nordic SoC/SiP devices. The devices need to support cellular communications (LTE-M using the Nordic 9160) and Bluetooth (LE and mesh, using the Nordic 5340). The initial engagement would be as a contractor on hourly rates or retainer whilst we get some initial projects completed. Permanent or co-founder roles may be available in the future. We're a vendor of data monitoring and automation technology for small-to-medium sized agriculturalists - mostly growers of wine grapes, fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, etc. Our predecessor companies (which go back as early as 1982) have supplied technology to some of the world's leading food and wine producers, research institutions and agri-business brands. Our main products are: - A data monitor that reads soil moisture and other environmental metrics, and uploads data to the cloud via Cat-M1, and a partner web app that displays data on maps+graphs and manages the devices. - A webapp that displays data from a network of 70+ weather stations across some major growing regions of Australia, and displays weather data updated every 10 minutes and long-term historical graphs. We're looking for people with the following skills: - Electronics engineering - designing circuits and circuit boards for IoT data monitoring/control applications, using Nordic SiP/SoC devices or comparable components. Experience with contemporary cellular data networks (Cat M1, NB-IoT) very welcome, as well as other radio data technologies, e.g., LoraWAN, DigiMesh, ZigBee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi. - Programming for above hardware platforms, ideally very experienced with C and the Zephyr platform. Knowledge of Mororola/Freescale assembly language a big advantage, for the purpose of porting functionality from a legacy device. This would be particularly interesting to someone who wants to go deep developing a new hardware/firmware architecture for this industry; something like what Cisco IOS is to networking, but for agriculture data monitoring/control. We’re also considering offering the circuit board as a barebones/OEM product, a-la “Raspberry Pi for agriculture”, so it would be a great opportunity for someone who want to be a part of that. We’re a new, “clean slate” company being established by people with decades of industry/product experience and solid relationships and reputation. We have several significant sales opportunities waiting to be fulfilled. And as a newly founded company we can offer substantial “ground-floor” equity allocations to the right people.