Electronic Systems Engineer

Imenco Group; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private medical and dental cover

Flexible working hours

Job summary

Imenco Group in Aberdeen seeks an Electronic Systems Engineer to join the Subsea Acoustics team. You will design, develop and deliver advanced subsea acoustic and wireless positioning systems, contributing across the full engineering lifecycle in demanding offshore environments.

You will work with in-house tools such as Altium Designer and AutoCAD, applying expertise in low-power analog/digital designs, C/C++, and Python to create robust hardware and firmware solutions for global deployments.

Qualifications

• Minimum BEng (Hons) Electronic & Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in component and systems-level design with low-power analogue/digital/micro/COTS technologies.
• Knowledge of PCB design tools – Altium Designer.
• Experienced in component and systems-level design for subsea/acoustics products.

Responsibilities

• Designing and delivering solutions to agreed requirements and specifications.
• Supporting projects to meet customer deadlines and specifications; able to respond to changes.
• Identifying and resolving technical issues during design, production and deployment.
• Providing technical guidance to sales and service departments globally.
• Proactively managing engineering improvements and driving continuous improvement.
• Taking responsibility for technical quality and contributing to on‑time delivery within a high-performing team.
• Acquire and deploy understanding of Imenco Future Technologies acoustic/audio/DSP technology domain.
• Develop hardware and firmware solutions and test development.
• Conduct hardware preliminary, prototype and detailed design reviews.
• Conduct hardware and systems integration and acceptance testing.
• Work across multiple projects and use in-house tools like Altium and AutoCAD.
• Unit, integration and acceptance testing on Linux, Windows and embedded platforms.

Skills

C

C++

Python coding

Low-power design

Digital Signal Processing

Education

BEng (Hons) Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium Designer

AutoCAD

Job description

We are currently seeking a Electronic Systems Engineer to work within our existing team in Aberdeen.

As a Systems Engineer within our Subsea Acoustics team, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and delivering advanced subsea acoustic and wireless positioning systems. Working across the full engineering lifecycle, you will contribute to innovative and field‑proven technologies that are deployed and supported globally in demanding offshore environments.

We are an innovation‑driven company specialising in high‑quality vision systems, subsea sensors and acoustic solutions. We collaborate closely with our customer partners in the offshore energy, defence, and maritime sectors to solve their unique operational challenges by applying core technical knowledge in optics, sound propagation and AI enabled electronic systems. Our long history of manufacturing engineered solutions delivers technologies that support our customers to enhance safety, assure integrity and drive operational efficiencies.

• Designing and delivering solutions to agreed requirements and specification.
• Supporting projects to meet customer deadlines and specifications. Able to respond to changes in these targets.
• Identifying and resolving technical issues as they arise during design, production and deployment of solutions.
• Provide technical expertise to sales and service departments globally.
• Proactively managing engineering improvements and driving continuous improvement.
• Taking responsibility for technical quality and contributing to on‑time delivery within ahigh-performing team.
• Acquire and deploy understanding of Imenco Future Technologies acoustic /audio / DSP technology domain.
• Acquire and deploy understanding of Imenco Future Technologies solutions for subsea wireless positioning, communications, and diver communications.
• Analyse problems, to specify, design, and implement hardware and firmware solutions to these problems, and test development.
• Produce relevant documentation for various architectures across the development lifecycle,including hardware design documents, simulations, schematics, PCB layouts, wiring diagrams, bill of materials, hardware design inspection reports, hardware prototype test specification, interface specifications.
• Develop test firmware for hardware designs where appropriate.
• Conduct hardware preliminary, prototype and detailed design reviews.
• Conduct hardware and systems integration and Acceptance Testing.
• Comfortable working on multiple projects.
• Use of in-house design tools e.g. Altium, AutoCAD.
• Unit, integration and acceptance testing using different operating systems on various platforms (e.g. Linux, Windows, embedded microcontrollers, etc.).

Education and Skills

• Minimum BEng (Hons) Electronic & Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience in component and systems-level design with low-power analogue / digital /micro / COTS technologies.
• Relevant previous experience as an Electronic Design Engineer.
• Knowledge of PCB design tools – Altium Designer
• Experienced in component and systems-level design with low-power analogue / digital / micro / COTS technologies on a range of subsea / acoustics products.

Desired, but not essential

• Knowledge and experience of a range of Subsea / acoustics products.
• Digital Signal Processing
• Skills in C, C++, Python coding

Personal Attributes:

• A self‑starter and highly motivated individual.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external departments.
• Comfortable working on multiple projects.
• Work Effectively in a team.

We Offer

• Competitive salary, with the opportunity to build your career through working in projects.
• Dynamic department attitude where sales and customers are focused on. An innovative work environment with a wide range of challenges and tasks with experienced co-workers.
• Pension, group life, accident insurance, Bupa private medical and dental cover and flexible working hours.