R&D Test Engineer, Saronic
+ Equity + Performance Bonus
Unmanned vehicles for maritime security
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Unmanned vehicles for maritime security
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity + Performance Bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To redefine maritime superiority.
Role
Who you are
- 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++
What the job involves
- We are seeking a skilled Test Engineer to join our team
- This engineer’s responsibilities include improving existing multi-disciplinary systems related to developing new autonomous vehicle concepts and prototypes
- They will participate in technical activities including engineering, designing, and testing of mechanical, electrical, electronic, and software driven systems in the process of developing various autonomous vehicle systems
- The ideal candidate must be able to draw on a wide range of engineering principles and work within demanding timeframes and develop original, practical solutions to technical and logistical problems
- 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
Our take
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) are vehicles which operate at the surface of the water without a crew and can be used in oceanography and environmental monitoring, as well as for cargo transport or military applications. Saronic is a company developing USVs to have enhanced awareness and improved survivability, to be employed in maritime security.
Saronic's vehicles are designed to be smarter than previous models, with capabilities including adaptive path planning, multichannel communication, and the ability to better identify and track targets through a combination of passive sensors and advanced algorithms.
Saronic is clearly charting an ambitious course for the future of maritime innovation too. Through its strategic partnership with NVIDIA, the company has embedded cutting-edge AI and edge computing directly onto its autonomous vessels. By combining Saronic's shipbuilding and autonomy expertise with NVIDIA's advanced computing, the company is delivering smarter platform while modernizing US shipbuilding for the era of autonomy. With this momentum, Saronic should be able to scale its next-generation maritime solutions and lead the transformation of a critical industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2026
$1.8bn
SERIES D
Feb 2025
$600m
SERIES C
Total funding: $2.6bn
Company HQ
South Manchaca, Austin, TX
Leadership
Dino Mavrookas
(Co-Founder & CEO)Board Member of the Navy SEAL Foundation, and former Entrepreneur In Residence at 8VC. Spent 11 years as a Chief Petty Officer in the US Navy, from 2004 to 2015.
Rob Lehman
(Co-Founder & CCO)Founder of 9 Line Solutions, who is also a Communications Officer in the US Marine Corps. Previously the Chair and CEO of Temeku Technologies.
Vibhav Altekar
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Advisor and Angel Investor for Standard Metrics and Chef Robotics. Spent 4 years working in Machine Learning at Anduril Industries.
Doug Lambert
(Co-Founder & COO)Former VP of Engineering at Terradepth. Before that, worked at Liquid Robotics for a total 8 years, ultimately as Head of Engineering.
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