Senior Electrical Engineer

Senior Electrical Engineer

Underwater communication is one of the hardest wireless problems on Earth. Radio waves attenuate quickly underwater, so our systems use sound, much like whales and dolphins, to transmit high-bandwidth data, including video. We are seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer with deep experience in low-noise analog and mixed-signal electronics who is excited to build hardware for one of the last largely unexplored frontiers: the undersea world.

This is a high-ownership role on a small, fast-growing team. You will not be one engineer among hundreds working on a narrow subsystem; you will have direct visibility into the full product, from modem firmware and acoustic signal processing to undersea drones and customer deployments.

Underwater, the wireless transfer of a single picture used to take an hour. Ocean Comm brought to market wireless modems that transfer data 100 to 1,000 times faster. Legacy modems were largely status and command links; our modems can control undersea drones with live video feedback, fundamentally changing what operators can see, decide, and do underwater. Leading organizations in defense, offshore energy, and oceanographic research rely on Ocean Comm to keep their undersea systems connected.

• Own electronics from concept through production, including architecture, component selection, schematic and PCB design, board bring-up, validation, and system-level integration
• Design the low-noise analog and mixed-signal electronics at the heart of our next-generation acoustic modems, combining modern mixed-signal ICs with carefully tuned custom analog circuitry
• Debug difficult problems spanning analog, digital, power, firmware, and system boundaries
• Lead and participate in peer and cross-disciplinary design reviews
• Integrate and test our modems with undersea drones and other advanced maritime systems
• Keep up to date with emerging technologies and research in relevant fields to help inform engineering and design decisions