Test Engineer

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 fundamental engineering principles, best practices, and analysis in areas including mechanical, electrical, electronics, and software.
• Conducting 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 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.
• Responsibilities culminate in creating ASV platforms and the software to interface with them.

Qualifications

• BS in mechatronics engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, physics, robotics, or similar.
• 3+ years of experience.
• Strong understanding and skills in engineering fundamentals, best practices, and analysis methods including analytical first principles, numerical methods, and simulation modeling
• Field experience operating, maintaining, diagnosing, testing, and repairing electro-mechanical systems.
• CAD modeling parts and assemblies.
• Finite element analysis (FEA) including static, dynamic, and modal on various electro-mechanical structures and systems
• Ability to work in collaborative or independent environments
• Autonomous vehicle experience or Marine systems experience including surface, subsurface, and deep sea experience preferred
• Maritime operations including offshore support preferred
• Generating drawings, schematics, bill of materials, and work instructions for manufacturing and assembly
• Software skills including Linux, Python, C/C++