Acoustic Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in robotics perception or autonomous systems
• Strong Python and/or MATLAB skills for software development and data analysis
• Demonstrated system analytical / system level debugging skills
• Solid understanding of linux operating system and commandline operations
• Willingness to work in the field system and participate in weekly field test exercises.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to transducers, hydrophones, or other analog sensor front ends, including their failure modes and interface requirements
• Familiarity with underwater or ocean acoustics, including propagation, array theory, or the sonar equation
• Experience deploying sensor perception algorithms on embedded hardware (Jetson or similar)

Responsibilities

• Integrate acoustic devices with VATN autonomous underwater vehicles.
• Work with specialists to characterize the performance of acoustic devices.
• Implement improvements for acoustic devices.
• Characterize real-world sensor behavior and close the loop between fielded performance and algorithm development.
• Plan and execute in-water data collections for forward looking sonar designs.
• Isolate defects to root cause across the sensing chain — sensor, analog front end, acquisition software, vehicle integration, or environment — and drive corrective action to closure against requirements.
• Develop and maintain automated analysis pipelines that ingest multichannel recordings and produce spectra, beamformed outputs, detection and tracking metrics, and homing performance summaries.
• Develop and maintain ROS 2 nodes for these acoustic systems, launch configurations, and recording tools supporting payload data capture and playback on vehicle platforms.