About Triton e.V.

We are currently a team of twenty students from a variety of STEM disciplines participating in the Microtransat Challenge.

Our aim is to build a fully autonomous solar-powered boat, that will cross the Atlantic Ocean. This is not an easy task as the ocean can be a harsh environment for a small boat. But we've accepted the challenge and we're confident, that we can overcome all the obstacles.

What We Offer

By joining our project, you will be able to gain an unforgettable practical experience, which will be priceless for your career. So if you are interested, just let us know to provide you with more information.

How To Apply

If you're interested in any of the jobs above or you think, you would be a great addition to the team, make sure to fill out the following survey.

Electronics (4 open positions)

We design electronic circuits, assemble circuit boards, program them and also wire up all the different components.

Electronics

Responsibilities

  • Implementing GPS, Compass, Gyroscope
  • Designing and fabricating PCBs
  • Reliability testing of said systems

Basic Qualifications

  • Basic knowledge about electrical circuits
  • Basic knowledge in C/C++ for testing purposes

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Basic knowledge in KiCAD
  • Experience in fabricating PCBs

Communication and Safety Systems

Responsibilities

  • Implementing communication with home via Satellite Internet (Starlink, Iridium)
  • Implementing collision avoidance with AIS (Hardware)
  • Designing and fabricating additional sensors (humidity, salinity ...)

Basic Qualifications

None

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Basic knowledge about electrical circuits
  • Basic knowledge in C/C++ for testing purposes

Propulsion

Responsibilities

  • Designing a highly reliable propulsion system
    • Thruster and ESC
    • Rudder
  • Designing and implementing reliability tests for the boat (focus on propulsion and power supply)
  • Electrical wiring through the boat

Basic Qualifications

  • Basic knowledge about electrical circuits

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience with power electronics

Photovoltaics and Battery

Responsibilities

  • Researching suitable solar panels and/or battery cells
  • Designing and planning circuitry of solar panels and/or battery
  • Building and testing the design

Basic Qualifications

  • Basic knowlegde about electrical circuits

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experienced with solar panels, battery design and BMS

Mechanics (3 open positions)

We work with engineering software like CAD, CFD and FEM to design our boat. Once we are happy with our design, we will build it in the Makerspace in the Collective Incubator using manufacturing processes such as vacuum resininfusion for glass fibre parts, 3-d-printing and machining

CAD Design

Responsibilities

  • Designing mechanical parts in CAD
  • Building mechanical parts

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience with a CAD-Program (we use Autodesk Inventor)
  • Experience in the use of hand and power tools and manufacturing like manual and CNC machining, 3D-printing

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience with fibre reinforced plastic

CFD Analysis

Responsibilities

  • Simulating and real life testing of fluid flow around the propeller and optimizing its shape
  • Computing loads on boat for different cases

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience with a CAD-Program (we use Autodesk Inventor)
  • Experience with a CFD-Program like Ansys or StarCCM+

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience with optimising hull shapes and/or propeller design

Structural Analysis

Responsibilities

  • Computing load cases
  • Simulating and testing critical parts for failure cases
  • Analyzing failure cases and optimising parts

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience with CAD-Program (we use Autodesk Inventor)
  • Experience with FEM-analysis

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience with fibre reinforced plastic
  • Experience with manufacturing methods like CNC-machining, 3D-printing

Software (2 open positions)

Our job is to design the autonomous steering software on the boat itself, as well as a mission control dashboard and a range of other software tasks. Used languages and frameworks include C, Rust, Svelte, Typescript and Java.

Frontend Development

Responsibilities

  • Developing and implementing the mission control frontend
  • Improving the organization's website

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience in any web framework
  • Experience with Web Development (in particular TypeScript)

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Bonus: knowledge of Svelte
  • Additional Bonus: knowledge of Rust (for backend; not required)

Guidance Navigation and Control

Responsibilities

  • Modelling boat dynamics, hydrodynamics, actuators and sensors
  • Extending the existing simulator in MATLAB/Simulink
  • Analysis of simulation data and result documentation
  • Investigating different guidance algorithms, including way point following and path planning in presence of obstacles
  • Writing algorithms for sensor fusion and signal filtering
  • Investigating different control concepts and controller tuning

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience with modeling using MATLAB/Simulink
  • Basic understanding of feedback control, system stability

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience with sensor fusion using Kalman filtering techniques
  • Controller design experience with h-infinity or model predictive control
  • Experience with Monte Carlo simulations in MATLAB/Simulink
  • Experience with system identification techniques
  • Experience modeling sea vehicles and vessels
  • Experience with embedded coder and C/C++ programming

Marketing (1 open position)

We take care of the social media representation and coordination, create the public image of the organization and represent it at events or other occasions. We're also responsible for the getting more people on board.

Graphic Design

Responsibilities

  • Creating and designing graphics for flyers, merch, our website, presentations, etc.

Basic Qualifications

  • Photo editing skills
  • Artistic eye
  • Drawing skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • PowerPoint knowledge
  • HTML-Programming

Sponsoring (1 open position)

The sponsoring team acquires, manages and communicates with TRITON´s sponsors. We work closely together with the project managment as well as the the different technical teams in order to ensure the best outcomes for our project and our sponsorship obligations. Together with the marketing team we represent TRITON to the outside world and strive towards exiting more and more people for our idea. Working in the sponsoring department allows for a unique perspective in realising technical project ideas and goals.

Sponsoring Acquisition

Responsibilities

  • Acquiring new sponsors
  • Tending to existing sponsorships

Basic Qualifications

  • Fluent in German and English both spoken and written
  • Well-spoken

Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Enjoy talking to many different people