Electrical Systems Engineer
We are seeking an Electrical Systems Engineer to join the team. The ideal candidate will have a BS in Electrical Engineering and 2-5 years of experience integrating electrical devices and components into working prototypes and finished products. We’re a small shop, so there is ample opportunity to contribute from design conception and invention all the way through to field trials, customer interactions, and production support. Only your skill set limits your potential!
Essential Skills and Characteristics
- Self-starting and self-motivated person comfortable with a small team environment.
- Design, document, debug, and integrate power control, energy generation and storage, communications devices, computing systems, and other electrical components into the finished robotic sailboat.
- Support development of the robotic system, testing both in the lab and through near shore on-the-ocean field testing.
- Design and build laboratory measurement and data acquisition systems to characterize components such as PV modules, batteries, sensors, actuators, and control computers.
- Design, produce, debug, and document integrated microcontroller firmware for lab measurement systems and product component subsystems.
- Analyze data to understand and characterize components, subsystems, and boats; use data to drive further development of the electrical subsystem.
Bonus Skills
- Design, fabrication, and debug PCBs and PCBAs.
- Experience with near shore water craft, especially sailboats.
- Experience with Linux operating systems.
- Ability to grow into leadership positions guiding larger and more complicated technical aspects of the boat design.
- Familiarity with robotic controls, operating systems, hardware, and software