Integration Engineer

Online Oceans; Christchurch; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Some travel

On-site role

Job summary

Online Oceans in the United Kingdom seeks a skilled Sensor Integration Engineer to mount, power, wire, code, and validate sensors for sea trials. You will design brackets and cable routes in CAD, wire into payload bays, and develop Python drivers to feed data into Tether.

Expect bench and sea tests, with travel possibilities. The role requires 5+ years integrating sensors onto vessels or platforms, strong CAD, 3D printing, sealing, and electronics skills, and clear communication with customers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years integrating sensors or instruments onto vehicles or platforms.
• Mechanical: CAD, 3D printing, sealing and connectors.
• Software: Python and Linux.
• Electronics: wiring, power and serial protocols.

Responsibilities

• Scope integrations with customers: measures, power, data, mounting.
• Design brackets, housings and cable routes in CAD.
• Wire sensors into payload bay: power, RS232, RS485 and Ethernet.
• Write drivers and parsers in Python on Linux, get data into Tether.
• Test on bench and at sea, ensure data quality.

Skills

Sensor integration

CAD design

3D printing

Python

Linux

Customer communication

Tools

CAD software

Wiring harnesses

Job description

Take a customer's sensor and make it work on Scout: mounted, wired, powered, coded and proven at sea.

We tell customers to bring their own sensors. You make that true. Hydrophones, cameras, weather stations, CTD chains, acoustic modems: each needs a mount, power, a data link and software before it is useful. You will do all four, then prove it on the water.

What you will do

• Scope each integration with the customer: what it measures, its power, data and mounting.
• Design brackets, housings and cable routes in CAD, then 3D print or machine them.
• Wire sensors into the payload bay: power, RS232, RS485 and Ethernet.
• Write drivers and parsers in Python on Linux, and get the data into Tether.
• Test on the bench and at sea, and stay with it until the data is right.

What you will bring

• 5+ years integrating sensors or instruments onto vehicles or platforms.
• Mechanical: CAD, 3D printing, sealing and connectors.
• Software: Python and Linux.
• Electronics: wiring, power and serial protocols.
• Clear with customers, technical or not.

Southampton. On site. Full time. Competitive salary. Some travel.