Electrical Engineer

The Position

You will be a key contributor to the embedded electronics hardware design and implementation of all our hardware products – Spotter, Smart Mooring, Bristlemouth and next generation platforms. Your initial focus will be on Sofar's new open hardware connectivity stack - Bristlemouth https://www.bristlemouth.org. You thrive in small and collaborative multidisciplinary teams, and are eager to pitch in to debug and solve gnarly issues (even when it's obviously a mechanical problem). You strive for the shared success of improving the health of our oceans and planet by shipping a cohesive, solid and impactful product.

This role would work onsite from our Pier 28 location in San Francisco, CA. 

Some projects you’ll be a part of:

• Advancing the Bristlemouth connectivity technology and building new Bristlemouth integrations for Spotter and Smart Mooring
• Developing next generation platforms
• Advanced research and experiments with new and emerging technologies
• Integrated system testing, open ocean deployments, and the occasional throwing of things out of airplanes to see what breaks

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, test and implement excellent embedded systems
• Collaborate with the manufacturing and supply chain teams to smoothly steward designs into production
• Participate in design reviews, brainstorms and whiteboard sessions with the broader team
• Work alongside firmware and mechanical engineers in integrating, testing and debugging systems
• Community collaboration and support for open source developments – like Bristlemouth

Minimum Job Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional embedded hardware engineering experience
• Comfortable and competent in schematic capture and PCB layout
• Experienced at prototyping and testing physical systems with modern instrumentation and test equipment
• Experience with multiple embedded processor platforms
• An understanding of common hardware peripherals and interfaces

Bonus Points

• Skilled at using Altium Designer
• Experience with low level embedded networking
• Past work in IoT, robotics, drones and/or automotive products
• Competency in firmware and/or software engineering
• A passion for or connection to the ocean