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Would you like to help design next-generation underwater technology for sustainable aquaculture? At Biosort, we develop advanced underwater systems that combine machine vision, robotics, optics, and biometric data to enable individual treatment and monitoring of farmed fish. Our technology is installed in salmon cages and contributes to improved fish welfare, increased sustainability, and lower production costs for fish farmers. We are a 15-year-old company, but our current commercial product direction has taken shape over the last 1.5 years. That means you will join at an exciting stage: building on deep technical learning and prior product experience, while helping mature a new generation of compact, high-performance underwater products. We are strengthening our product development team with an experienced Mechanical Engineer who can help take advanced electro-mechanical products from promising prototypes to robust, manufacturable, and scalable solutions. This is not a role for someone who only wants to work in a narrow box. At Biosort, mechanical engineering sits at the centre of the product: structures, sealing, motion systems, interfaces, compact packaging, manufacturability, and reliability all come together in one highly integrated underwater system. If you enjoy solving difficult 3D engineering problems, working through fast test-and-learn cycles, and taking ownership of real product challenges in harsh environments, this could be a rare opportunity. What you’ll do Design and develop electro-mechanical modules, assemblies, and product architecture for underwater use, typically at 5–30 meters depth. Work across the full product development cycle: concept development, CAD design, prototype builds, testing, iteration, and production readiness. Help mature existing prototypes into robust commercial products by identifying failure modes, improving weak points, and driving design refinements. Design for volume production, including materials, manufacturing methods, tolerance chains, sealing concepts, cable routing, assembly processes, and cost reduction. Solve highly compact 3D integration problems across mechanics, optics, electronics, motors, sensors, and structural interfaces. Participate in verification and reliability work, including testing in our salt-water pool, at sea near Oslo, and in fish-farm environments along the west coast and in Northern Norway. Support supplier and manufacturing development, including DFM input, sourcing variation, quality issues, and qualification of components and partners. Collaborate closely with test, production, electronics, optics, software, and embedded teams to ensure performance, manufacturability, and reliability. Contribute where needed across modules and subsystems — from mechanisms and structural details to manufacturability and field feedback. How we work Biosort’s mechanical team is small and highly involved. Today, the team consists of two mechanical engineers — and this hire will be the third. That means: you will work very close to the core product you will have high ownership and visibility you will work in short, practical iterations with little distance from testing, production, and leadership We do not always verify every isolated detail before integrating it. Instead, we often move quickly by implementing multiple solutions into prototypes, testing them under demanding real-world conditions, learning fast, and iterating. This approach gives us speed and momentum — but it also requires engineers who are comfortable with ambiguity, risk, and scientific problem-solving when things do not work the first time. A big part of the role is helping us close the “last 20%”: the hard work of verification, root-cause analysis, design refinement, quality stabilization, and industrialization. For the right person, that is where the fun begins. Who are we looking for? We are