Senior Autonomous Marine Electrical Test Engineer

Socket.dev; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental and Vision Insurance

Time Off

Parental Leave

Competitive Salary

Retirement Plan

Stock Options

Life and Disability Insurance

Free lunch and snacks

Job summary

Saronic Technologies is seeking a skilled Electrical Engineer to join the R&D Test Team, contributing to the design, development, integration, and testing of electro-mechanical and software-driven subsystems for autonomous surface vessels. This role supports advancing ASV platforms and interfaces, with field testing in marine environments.

The position emphasizes cross-disciplinary engineering, advanced analysis, and the delivery of robust subsystems under demanding timelines.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in electrical engineering, robotics engineering, mechatronics engineering, or similar.
• 4–10 years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding and skills in engineering fundamentals, best practices, and analysis methods including analytical first principles, numerical methods, and simulation modeling.
• Experience operating, maintaining, diagnosing, testing, and repairing electrical and electro-mechanical systems.
• Power calculations, analysis, measurement, low voltage, 3-phase AC.
• Electrical schematic development and usage.
• SPICE based circuit simulations or equivalent.
• PCB design and development experience.
• Networking: ethernet, CAN J1939, serial.
• Sensor and data acquisition.
• Software skills including Rust, C/C++, Linux, Python.
• Ability to work in collaborative or independent environments with limited oversight.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the technical requirements, problems, or client briefs and developing solutions that satisfy the requirements.
• Engage in engineering, designing, prototype development, and enhancing electro-mechanical systems and software for autonomous vehicles and related devices and subsystems.
• Apply engineering principles, best practices, and analysis in areas including mechanical, electrical, electronics, and software.
• Conducting applied research, documenting findings, and presenting reports.
• Develop design documents for parts, sub-systems, and final integrated systems.
• Selecting the required tools and materials for the manufacturing, assembly, and maintenance process.
• Integration of electro-mechanical systems and software into a fully integrated system.
• Proof of concept, functionality, and reliability testing of components, sub-systems, and fully integrated systems.
• Participate in and lead testing efforts in the laboratory and in the field which includes on marine environments.
• Identify trends in runtime and failures of ASV components, subsystems, and system through continual analysis of expansive datasets.
• Identifying areas of weakness in the systems and processes and making recommendations for improvement.
• Support troubleshooting and independently resolve electrical and system-level issues.
• Collaborate with technicians and provide guidance on build, integration, and testing activities.
• Responsibilities culminate in contributing to the development of ASV platforms and the software to interface with them.

Job description

Saronic Technologies is seeking a skilled Electrical Engineer to join the R&D Test Team, contributing to the design, development, integration, and testing of electro-mechanical and software-driven subsystems for autonomous surface vessels. This role supports advancing ASV platforms and interfaces, with field testing in marine environments.

The position emphasizes cross-disciplinary engineering, advanced analysis, and the delivery of robust subsystems under demanding timelines.