Salary Range: 130000 to 190000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

Our mission

Aquabyte is on a mission to revolutionize the sustainability and efficiency of aquaculture. By making fish farming cheaper and more viable than livestock production, we aim to mitigate one of the biggest causes of climate change and help prepare our planet for impending population growth. Aquaculture is the single fastest growing food-production sector in the world, and now is the time to define how technology is used to harvest the sea and preserve it for generations to come.

We are a diverse, mission-driven team that is eager to work alongside kindred spirits. If this vision makes you smile, gives you goosebumps, or otherwise inspires you please get in touch.

Our product

We are currently focused on helping salmon farmers better understand their fish populations and make environmentally-sound decisions. Through custom underwater cameras, computer vision, and machine learning we are able to quantify fish weights, detect the health status, and generate optimal feeding plans in real time. Our product operates at three levels: on-site hardware for image capture, cloud pipelines for data processing, and a user-facing web application. As a result, there are hundreds of moving pieces and no shortage of fascinating challenges across all levels of the stack.

About The Edge Systems Team:

Edge engineering is responsible for the hardware and software orchestrating the hardware installed at fish farms around the world. Our goals are to create autonomous, reliable, bandwidth-light, long-lasting, robust, remote-debuggable, fail-safe, and easily deployable underwater cameras and sensors.

We work with world-class mechanical engineering firms and optical consultants to spec the underwater equipment we deploy. The edge engineering team writes software and procedures to make quality testing of these cameras as easy as possible for the field team in Norway. The types of tests we orchestrate are hardware burn-in, optical quality testing in-air and in-water, sensor calibration and verification, and stereo camera calibration.

The edge team also writes software to make it easy for the field team to successfully deploy and configure our hardware at the farm. As it’s often rainy in Norway and the Internet may not yet be set up, our debugging tools need to operate wirelessly and allow a field technician to interface with the hardware from their phones.

The edge team is responsible for designing the network, cellular backup system, and mesh network of devices at a farm. We plan for failure, and build in redundancies where possible. Internet can go out for hours and there’s only so much data we can uplink. Boats may park between our antennas.

As Aquabyte evolves, more products will be built on-top of the pixel and sensor data we collect. In order to scale, these algorithms need to live on the edge. We work closely with the machine learning team to help move their algorithms safely from the cloud to the edge.

We are responsible for our own Linux build process and the process of safely deploying software to the devices in the field.

This role is flexible and is based out of our Bay Area office and involves occasional travel to Norway and Chile.

Job Responsibilities

Interface with sensors; cameras; mesh, wireless, and cellular networks to create robust, reliable, and remote data collection and processing systems
Develop on ARM-based embedded platforms using C, C++, python, golang or rust
Improve our embedded Linux build and deployment process
Develop software to automate hardware testing procedures
Build diagnostic and configuration tooling to enable our field team to interface with our hardware wirelessly from their phones.
Enable our research team to try new machine learning models on real hardware
Participate in hardware specifications for our next generation equipment
Participate in on-call for diagnosing and fixing device issues remotely and implementing procedures and tooling to help enable the field team to self-diagnose and fix issues themselves

Qualifications

Engineering or CS degree.
Software development on an embedded device
Experience writing and building software.
Professional experience with C, C++, Golang, Python or Rust.

Desired but Not Required

Solid understanding of TCP/IP
Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
Buildroot, Yocto Project, toolchains, uBoot, UART, SPI, I2C interfaces
Experience with WiFi, BLE, LoRaWAN, Mesh Networking, Cellular Networks
Selecting hardware targeted for harsh environmental conditions
Ability to read a schematic
Experience with cloud environments such as AWS.
Experience deploying to off-site hardware.
Professional experience working with cameras.
Build and maintain fleet operations tools for monitoring, notifications, trending, and analysis.
Experience at a small & quickly growing startup

Benefits

Competitive salary and equity
Unlimited vacation policy
Flexible working hours + hybrid work policy
Medical, vision, & dental insurance
Retirement matching plan
Potential travel to Norway
Evolve in a fast-paced environment
Be able to shape a business in its early days
Get ideas, feedback, and suggestions from other best-in-their-field colleagues
Mentorship opportunities, we'll be dedicated to investing in you and supporting you as you grow

At Aquabyte, we admire interesting people with a unique background. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t satisfy all the requirements, and we will get back to you as soon as possible!

About the company

Aquabyte uses AI and machine learning to help fish farmers manage aquaculture more efficiently. Its platform analyzes underwater images to automate key tasks like counting lice and estimating biomass, providing data on fish health and growth. The product is delivered as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, with subscribers paying recurring fees to access the AI-powered tools and receive ongoing updates. Aquabyte differentiates itself through a dual presence in Silicon Valley and Norway, combining advanced tech development with deep, practical knowledge of Norwegian fish farming to tailor solutions for real-world farming needs. Its goal is to help farmers optimize operations, reduce costs, and make data-driven decisions at scale, leveraging continuous improvements through the SaaS model.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$59.8M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

May 2026 Hydra 360 launch expands Aquabyte beyond lice counting into feeding automation.
December 2025 Vitruvian control funds expansion across Norway, Chile, Iceland, Canada, and Scotland.
Aquabyte still targets global salmon farming, where welfare and efficiency software spending keeps rising.

What critics are saying

Mowi, Cermaq, and ScaleAQ can bundle competing sensors by 2027.
Hardware-heavy deployments create churn when farms standardize on cheaper camera stacks.
If Hydra 360 misses accuracy, Aquabyte becomes replaceable software wrapped around commoditized hardware.

What makes Aquabyte unique

Hydra 360 unifies feeding, welfare, biomass, and lice counting in one device.
Aquabyte combines Silicon Valley AI with Norwegian salmon-farming domain expertise.
Vitruvian's 2025 majority ownership validates Aquabyte as category leader.

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Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Work Hours
401(k) Company Match
Company Equity
Mentorship Program

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This move will drive the next phase of our growth and enable us to further establish Aquabyte and our AI-powered monitoring technology as the leading solution for fish farmers in all key regions globally – including Norway, Chile, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Canada and Scotland.

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Feb 18th, 2026

Graphene Ventures exits Aquabyte with majority stake sale to Vitruvian Partners

Graphene Ventures has recorded its second exit in the agritech sector following Aquabyte's sale of a majority stake to global investment firm Vitruvian Partners in December 2025. This marks the fund's second agritech exit after John Deere's acquisition of Bear Flag Robotics in 2021. Aquabyte, a portfolio company held through Graphene's Fund II and Fund III, has become a global leader in data-driven aquaculture technology. Founded in 2017, the company combines Silicon Valley innovation with deep sector knowledge to provide comprehensive solutions based on artificial intelligence, computer vision and big data analytics. The platform delivers precise information to fish farmers about fish health, behaviour, growth and parasite levels, supporting improved efficiency and sustainability in marine production. The exit represents an encouraging start to 2026 for Graphene Ventures.

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Jul 13th, 2022

Aquabyte Closes $25M Series B Funding to Meet World's Demand for Healthy, Sustainable Fish

"When you improve fish welfare, you solve many bigger problems as well.”

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Jul 13th, 2022

AQUABYTE CLOSES $25M SERIES B FUNDING TO MEET WORLD’S DEMAND FOR HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE FISH - Aquabyte

“When you improve fish welfare, you solve many bigger problems as well.” (SAN FRANCISCO and BERGEN – July 13, 2022) – Aquabyte, which uses computer vision and AI to give fish farms unprecedented insight into the health, growth, and sustainability of their fish, today announced the completion of its Series B financing of $25 million....

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