Marine Systems Engineer — Ocean Robotics & Field Trials

Ocean Infinity; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Infinity in the United Kingdom seeks Systems Engineers to design, integrate and deliver next‑gen marine robotic platforms across concept to deployment. You’ll own system architecture, manage requirements, and work with mechanical, electrical, software, and operations teams to turn concepts into field-ready capability.

You’ll collaborate on trades studies, system documentation, and hands-on integration and sea trials, ensuring reliability in demanding marine environments and aligning with

Qualifications

• Experienced in systems engineering across the full lifecycle with clear ownership of requirements, architecture, integration, and verification activities.
• Ability to interpret, challenge, and refine system-level designs and interfaces across mechanical, electrical, and software domains.

Responsibilities

• Own system architecture — define and manage system-level requirements, interfaces, and architecture across USV and AUV platforms.
• Maintain system documentation — develop and control requirements sets, ICDs, and system design descriptions.
• Lead system-level decisions — run trade studies, requirement decompositions, and design evaluations.
• Support full lifecycle delivery — contribute from concept through deployment, including integration, verification, validation, configuration control, and change management.
• Drive hands-on integration and trials — participate in hardware/software integration, testing, troubleshooting, and sea trials.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements ownership

System integration

Trade studies

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

SysML

Job description

Ocean Infinity in the United Kingdom seeks Systems Engineers to design, integrate and deliver next‑gen marine robotic platforms across concept to deployment. You’ll own system architecture, manage requirements, and work with mechanical, electrical, software, and operations teams to turn concepts into field-ready capability.

You’ll collaborate on trades studies, system documentation, and hands-on integration and sea trials, ensuring reliability in demanding marine environments and aligning with