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Subsea Acoustics Engineer

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-26

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++

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