Senior Subsea Electronics Engineer — FPGA & Embedded Systems

Carbon 60, Inc.; Yateley; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Carbon60 is seeking a Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer to lead advanced subsea instrumentation projects, owning electronics hardware, embedded firmware and FPGA designs and ensuring they become production-ready in-house. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to close design knowledge gaps and deliver robust, low-noise subsea solutions.

The role focuses on optical modem technology, seismic recorder electronics, and hands-on ownership of inherited designs, with

Qualifications

• Essential: 2:1 or above in a relevant engineering degree.
• Desirable: Master's or PhD in electronics, embedded systems, FPGA, photonics, instrumentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop, review and modify electronics hardware, embedded firmware and FPGA designs.
• Take ownership of inherited designs, source code, interfaces and test methods.
• Work on low-power, low-noise, reliable subsea electronics and electro-optical interfaces.
• Support optical link performance testing and optimisation.
• Use embedded C, FPGA and Python for development, diagnosis and test automation.
• Help bring products to production readiness, including test fixtures and automated test.
• Provide senior input on design reviews, integration, verification and fault finding.
• Produce clear documentation, and work with internal teams and external partners to close design knowledge gaps.

Skills

electronics design

embedded C/C++

FPGA

fault finding

documentation

Education

2:1 or above in a relevant engineering degree

Master's or PhD in electronics/embedded systems/FPGA/photonics/instrumentation

Tools

Altium PCB design

ADCs and precision acquisition

clocks and timing

Job description

Carbon60 is seeking a Senior Electronics Hardware Engineer to lead advanced subsea instrumentation projects, owning electronics hardware, embedded firmware and FPGA designs and ensuring they become production-ready in-house. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to close design knowledge gaps and deliver robust, low-noise subsea solutions.

The role focuses on optical modem technology, seismic recorder electronics, and hands-on ownership of inherited designs, with