Junior Electronics Engineer

Role: Electronics Engineer

Location: San Diego, CA (in-office)

Salary: $80,000-$120,000 / yr + stock options, 401k matching, relocation assistance within the U.S. (if applicable), and other benefits.

Seasats has dozens of autonomous vehicles in customer hands across the globe. In the quest to 10x our vehicle production and deployment rates, we’re looking for a motivated Junior Electronics Engineer who is excited to create high-quality products to operate in extremely harsh environments.

You’ll work as part of a tight team, collaborating with our CTO, other electrical engineers, testing, R&D, and production teams. You’ll support projects spanning power systems, communications hardware, customer payloads and more. Some revisions and features will be glamorous and rewarding; others will be time-consuming and low-visibility to most of the team, though still vitally important.

Our customers depend on our vehicles to complete high value (and at times dangerous) missions. The reliability of the systems that you’ll create is critical, so you’ll need to independently balance a fast development pace with attention to detail, quality, and manufacturability.

Some tasks you might work on include:

• Compiling project requirements and constraints
• Designing prototypes and conducting early tests to identify what approaches work and don’t work
• Creating and supporting more sophisticated tests to find issues and demonstrate functionality.
• Communicating findings and documenting outcomes in a practical manner
• Building systems and then documenting processes to transition manufacturing to the production team
• Conducting or supporting quality assurance (QA)

• You’ve designed, built, debugged, and hacked various electrical systems (PCBs, cable systems, sensors)
• You have experience with a PCB design program (Altium Designer is a plus!)
• You’ve worked on difficult technical projects as part of a team or on your own
• You're good at finishing projects on time
• You can write well and create clear diagrams to convey information to other team members and teams
• You’ve created an electrical system that has been produced in multiple quantities
• You enjoy working with other people in a tight-knit, high-performance team

This is an excellent opportunity to do high-impact work, see your hardware go into live field robotics applications, and join a fun and hard-working team on the cutting edge of ocean autonomy. Whether you’re a new grad or a 30 year industry vet, we expect an open-minded learning attitude from everyone at Seasats.

At Seasats, we’re passionate about delivering maritime robotics solutions to redefine the maritime industry. Our primary products are autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), designed to carry sensors at sea for months at a time. Our ASVs provide persistent monitoring and data acquisition to defense, scientific, and commercial customers, and have autonomously crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. After thousands of years in which the only way to gather information from the ocean was to put people on a boat, these uncrewed vessels are transforming how humanity monitors and interacts with the ocean.

Here, you’ll find the space and opportunity to do your life’s best work.

Along with your salary, you’ll receive perks including:

• Stock options
• Competitive insurance (including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options)
• 401k matching up to 4% of salary
• Four free lunches per week
• An employee activity fund
• A pet-friendly office
• Unlimited/Flex PTO

When applying, you’ll be asked to provide a resume and answer a few screening questions.

Please note that we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas, so candidates must be independently authorized to work in the United States.

We appreciate diverse perspectives and life experiences, and we’re committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds. Seasats provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination of any type based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.

We look forward to reviewing your application!