Hardware Engineer

Standard Subsea

• $100K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven experience designing and building electrical hardware.
  • Strong understanding of high voltage safety protocols and practices.
  • Hands-on experience with harnesses, connectors, and installations.
  • Ability to layout and design simple PCBs for integration.
  • Knowledge of power distribution, protection, and control interfaces.
  • Experience taking designs to prototypes that perform reliably in the field.

Responsibilities

  • Design comprehensive electrical systems covering power, propulsion, and communications.
  • Physically build and install systems on vessels, including harnesses and enclosures.
  • Create detailed diagrams and schematics to support electrical assembly and installation.
  • Develop simple PCBs to incorporate COTS boards, minimizing complexity.
  • Select and configure components to ensure system safety and serviceability.
  • Collaborate with mechanical and software teams to facilitate practical designs while adhering to compliance standards.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge marine technology.
  • Hands-on involvement in all phases of electrical systems development.
  • Potential to influence product design and innovation.
  • Collaborative environment with a focus on practical and impactful solutions.
Full Job Description
The Role:

Our mechanical and software engineers know enough electrical to be dangerous, and they have built the system running our vessels today. You take it from here: develop it, and rework it however you see fit to hit our next product goals. This role will be foundational to ongoing electrical buildout. The work spans power, propulsion, energy storage, high voltage, sensors, comms, and control, from schematic to bench to install to sea trials.

What you'll do:
  • Design the electrical system end to end: power, propulsion, energy storage, control, comms, and high voltage.
  • Build and install it in the boat. Harnesses, connectors, enclosures, the physical install, then commission it and chase down problems on the water.
  • Draw the diagrams and schematics that drive the harness, enclosure, and PCB work, and keep the power budget honest under worst-case loads.
  • Design simple PCBs to fold today's COTS boards into our own, cutting parts, wiring, and failure points.
  • Pick the components and set the grounding, shielding, and protection so the system is safe and serviceable.
  • Work with mechanical and software so the design is practical to build and maintain, and keep electrical safety, EMC, and marine compliance in view.


What we're looking for:
  • You have built real electrical hardware yourself. We care more about what you have built than years.
  • Comfortable with high voltage: safe isolation, lockout, arc-flash awareness.
  • Hands on with harnesses, connectors, and installs.
  • Can lay out simple boards: power distribution, breakout, integration. Nothing exotic.
  • Know your way around power distribution, protection, control interfaces, and picking parts for high-reliability use.
  • Have taken something from a design to a prototype that ships and holds up in the field.


Bonus points:
  • Uncrewed or remotely operated marine vehicles, or other harsh-environment platforms.
  • High-reliability or mission-critical electrical systems (aerospace, defense, industrial).
  • Hybrid power, battery management, and energy storage.
  • Reliability work: derating, FMEA, MTBF.
  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

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