Electrical Engineer, Marine Robotics Systems

Crabi Robotics; Medford (MA); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Crabi Robotics is seeking a full-time Electrical Engineer to own and advance the electrical systems powering autonomous marine robots. Responsibilities span circuit and PCB design, power distribution, sensing, and waterproof electronics, with hands-on bring-up, testing, and field troubleshooting.

The role focuses on designing for reliability in harsh shipboard environments, debugging boards, and integrating sensors and communications within complex robotic systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in analog and digital electronics and electrical system design.
• Experience designing schematics and PCBs in KiCad, Altium, OrCAD, or similar tools.
• Experience bringing up and debugging custom PCBAs.
• Proficiency with oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and other common electrical test equipment.
• Strong hands-on soldering, PCB rework, cable fabrication, and prototype debugging skills.
• Experience integrating sensors, actuators, embedded controllers, and communication interfaces.
• Understanding of grounding, signal integrity, power integrity, protection, and EMI/EMC fundamentals.
• Ability to systematically troubleshoot complex electrical and electromechanical systems.

Responsibilities

• Design schematics and PCB layouts for embedded control, sensing, communications, and power systems.
• Develop electrical architectures, power distribution, cable harnesses, grounding, shielding, and interconnects.
• Bring up, test, characterize, and debug PCBAs and integrated robotic systems.
• Select components and design for reliability, manufacturability, environmental durability, and cost.
• Design electronics for waterproof and marine environments, including sealed connectors, penetrations, and enclosures.
• Develop test procedures, fixtures, and validation methods.
• Troubleshoot electrical failures from the component level through complete robots.
• Support robot assembly, lab testing, field testing, and repairs.
• Work closely with mechanical, firmware, GNC, manufacturing, and test engineers.

Skills

Analog & Digital electronics

PCB design

Board bring-up

Electrical test equipment

Soldering & prototyping

Sensor/actuator integration

Signal integrity

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

KiCad

Altium

OrCAD

Job description

Crabi Robotics is seeking a full-time Electrical Engineer to own and advance the electrical systems powering autonomous marine robots. Responsibilities span circuit and PCB design, power distribution, sensing, and waterproof electronics, with hands-on bring-up, testing, and field troubleshooting.

The role focuses on designing for reliability in harsh shipboard environments, debugging boards, and integrating sensors and communications within complex robotic systems.