Subsea Acoustics Engineer
Core
Design, manufacture, and deploy low-cost, high-performance underwater sensing systems (DVL, MBES, Side Scan Sonar, USBL) for autonomous vehicles in defense, commercial, and scientific missions.
Role type
Senior IC Subsea Acoustics Engineer (Product & Signal Processing)
Builds
Robust, repeatable, calibratable acoustic payloads and algorithms for Mako AUVs and related platforms
Domain
Defense, Ocean Science, Commercial Survey, Underwater Acoustics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
underwater acoustics, sonar systems, signal processing, estimation pipelines, Python, C/C++, embedded systems, hardware/software stack integration, production scaling (DFM/DFT), field testing
Preferred skills
transducer/array design, acoustic materials, production test automation, AUV/ROV navigation stacks, harsh environment design
Technologies
DVL, MBES, Side Scan Sonar, USBL, Ethernet, serial, CAN, PPS, Python, C/C++