What are the responsibilities and job description for the Electrical Engineer position at Blue Water Autonomy Inc.?
Who We Are
We are an early-stage, maritime defense technology startup backed by top tier investors. Our team is designing and building autonomous and highly producible ships that can serve multiple missions on the open ocean.
The Role:
As an Electrical Engineer, you’ll work hands-on with the team building the electrical and power systems that make our autonomous vessels operate safely and reliably at sea. You’ll support design, integration, and testing of control panels, power distribution, and sensing hardware across our platforms. If you are not afraid of getting a little wet, come join our team to develop the latest in autonomous ship technology, gain valuable experience, and have fun doing it.
U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.
What You'll Do:
We are an early-stage, maritime defense technology startup backed by top tier investors. Our team is designing and building autonomous and highly producible ships that can serve multiple missions on the open ocean.
The Role:
As an Electrical Engineer, you’ll work hands-on with the team building the electrical and power systems that make our autonomous vessels operate safely and reliably at sea. You’ll support design, integration, and testing of control panels, power distribution, and sensing hardware across our platforms. If you are not afraid of getting a little wet, come join our team to develop the latest in autonomous ship technology, gain valuable experience, and have fun doing it.
U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.
What You'll Do:
- Design of electrical control panels, harnesses, and subsystem interfaces.
- Support integration and testing of power distribution, batteries, converters, and switchgear.
- Create schematics meeting marine and navy requirements.
- Work with various contract manufacturers to get cable harnesses and electronic assemblies built and tested.
- Perform bench tests and debug boards, harnesses, and controls.
- Coordinate with Mechanical, Systems, Marine, and Software teams to get projects built and out the door.
- Provide clear, concise instructions to technicians for testing and assembly tasks.
- B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or related field.
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in robotics, power, autonomy or similar fields.
- Familiar with AC and DC circuit design and analysis.
- Robotics Engineering experience.
- Experience designing and testing to industry/electrical standards.
- Have decent soldering skills and comfortable with hand tools and basic power tools.
- Ability to use electrical test equipment safely.
- Experience working on 1000VDC and 480Vac projects.
- Experience programming embedded systems.
- Develop scripts to manipulate and parse test data.
- Power system design and analysis experience.
- Incredibly high-caliber teammates. You’ll work directly with our co-founders Rylan, Scott, and Austin.
- A fast-paced, creative working environment that offers a lot of room for ownership and growth.
- Opportunity to join a meaningful mission that protects American and our Democracy.
- Expected Salary Range: $150,000-$175,000 annual base salary. Final compensation will depend on experience and skill level
- Startup equity options
- Generous PTO, medical, dental, and vision coverage
Salary : $150,000 - $175,000