Survey and Product Engineer

Company Brief:

Planys is a deep tech start-up revolutionizing infrastructure integrity and risk assessment. Planys specializes in smart underwater inspection solutions and sophisticated digital analytics and reporting of NDT data. Planys envisions to steer a new course in the maintenance and inspection industry with its disruptive innovations in the field of marine robotics, novel underwater NDT methods and AI enabled post-inspection analytical digital reporting dashboard. Planys helps asset owners/operators in taking data-driven decisions for effective maintenance and repair of their critical assets. (Website:

Job Description:

> The PD and R engineer at Planys Technologies is responsible for several broad functions, including,

• research and development,
• standardization
• scale-up to commercial deployment
• product and payload survey
• interaction with OEMs and inspection service providers

relating to NDT techniques, survey modalities, and related payloads and sub-systems, for robotic platforms.

> This engineer will also need to lead projects drawing resources from several departments at Planys, working with several external OEMs and service providers to understand and assess the feasibility of combining and developing the following activities,

• NDT techniques including ultrasonic, electromagnetics, and acoustics.
• Survey modalities including bathymetry, sub-bottom/ multibeam profiling, imaging sonars, and scour estimation.
• Other emerging vision-based modalities including Laser, photogrammetry, and Lidar.

> This engineer will be responsible for rigorous literature review to support feasibility studies for adapting emerging technologies on robotic platforms; numerical and experimental work for proof-of-concept stage solutions, and finally, organize and lead field trials and pilot projects of the developed prototype inspection systems.

> The engineer will need to interact with several internal departments including the business development, product development, maintenance, and operations. The engineer will need to understand requirements assessing project feasibility, providing inputs to design, fabrication and procurements, and providing documentation and training material for field engineers to use the developed technology in the field, respectively.

> He/ she will also be responsible for publishing and presenting papers at conferences; publishing journals, and patents on the developed technologies.

> The engineer will also be involved in management of project delivery, project related reports and updates, product documentation — operation and training manuals in coordination with the engineering department, and post-delivery technical and warranty related support.

> The engineer will also aid and support management of existing product and services line-up, pursuing,

• continuous improvement on the various fronts including reliability, ease of maintenance and assembly, product life,
• corrective action by rigorous study of pain-points by coordinating the respective stakeholders, and
• aid in development of related processes and SOPs

> The engineer will also be responsible to lead implementation projects in the field. This may involve travel both in India and overseas. This endeavor will include,

• planning of the operation from both logistic and technical perspectives,
• interact and explain the technology to the end-user,
• preparation of pre- and post-mobilization plans, execute the project,
• preparation & validation of data acquisition templates, standard operation procedures and training materials, and,
• preparation of report generation documentation.

Skills/ Experience Expected:

• Fundamentals of mathematics, physics, and programming
• Numerical, analytical, and experimental studies
• Effective communication
• Experience in team management, project management

Qualifications:

Bachelor of Technology/ Post-grad.; Experience 3+ years

Working Model: Work from Office at Chennai, TN.