Senior Electrical Engineer (Maritime)

Job description

ABOUT ODIN DYNAMICS Founded in 2025, Odin Dynamics is a defense technology company building autonomous underwater vehicles that will define the next era of undersea warfare. We are focused on delivering capable, resilient autonomous systems that strengthen the strategic advantage of the United States and its allied navies. We move fast, build real hardware, and operate with the urgency that the mission demands. We are building a new platform from the ground up. This is not a role where you will inherit a mature product with every architectural decision already made. You will take incomplete requirements, early hardware, and difficult technical constraints and turn them into dependable, production-ready electrical systems. We value rigorous engineering without unnecessary process. Decisions should be driven by physics, test data, and product outcomes—not inherited convention or documentation volume. THE ROLE Odin Dynamics is hiring multiple Senior Electrical Engineers to serve as Responsible Engineers for critical electrical subsystems across our platform. Each engineer will take primary technical ownership of one of three areas: - High-speed digital electronics and embedded compute hardware - Motor-control and drive electronics - Battery, power electronics, and power-distribution hardware Candidates will apply to a common requisition, and Odin Dynamics will determine the best area of focus through the interview process. We are looking for engineers with deep expertise in at least one area who are also comfortable working across electrical architecture, schematic design, PCB layout, embedded systems, power electronics, manufacturing, testing, and the broader engineering domain. As the Responsible Engineer for your subsystem, you will own the hardware throughout its lifecycle: requirements, architecture, detailed design, schematic capture, PCB layout, component selection, analysis, bring-up, verification, field testing, production support, failure analysis, and continued improvement after deployment. This is a hands-on individual-contributor position. You will be expected to design real hardware, make technical decisions, mentor other engineers, and remain accountable for the performance and reliability of your subsystem. There are no organizational handoffs when a difficult problem crosses the boundary between electrical, software, mechanical, manufacturing, or test engineering. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Serve as the Responsible Engineer for a major electrical subsystem. - Develop greenfield electrical hardware from initial requirements and architecture through field-tested, production-ready implementation. - Own schematic design, PCB layout, component selection, design reviews, analysis, bring-up, validation, production support, and sustaining improvements. - Design high-reliability electronics for systems with strict size, weight, power, thermal, performance, and environmental constraints. - Create electrical architectures and hardware interfaces in close collaboration with Embedded Software, Avionics, Power Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and Test Engineering. - Design and review multilayer PCBs, high-speed digital interfaces, controlled-impedance routing, mixed-signal circuitry, high-current power paths, power sequencing, clocking, reset behavior, grounding, and board-level power distribution. - Bring up new boards in the lab and work closely with embedded software engineers to validate hardware/software integration. - Debug board-level and system-level issues involving power rails, clocks, resets, signal integrity, noise, thermal behavior, communications, intermittent faults, and hardware/software interactions. - Use oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, electronic loads, power supplies, thermal cameras, and related lab equipment to identify root causes. - Develop and execute board-level validation tests, integration tests, and system-level tests. - Work with Test Engineering to validate systems in laboratory, field, and sea-trial environments. - Support production testing, investigate failures on deployed hardware, and own corrective improvements throughout the product lifecycle. - Coordinate with manufacturing partners, PCB fabricators, assembly vendors, component suppliers, and internal manufacturing teams to transition designs from prototype to production. - Produce concise, functional engineering documentation that enables implementation, testing, operation, manufacturing, and future development. - Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical reviews without moving away from hands-on engineering. AREAS OF FOCUS HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL ELECTRONICS The High-Speed Digital Electronics Responsible Engineer will own electrical hardware for embedded compute and vehicle electronics, including: - Embedded compute carrier boards - Processor, microcontroller, memory, storage, and peripheral interfaces - High-speed digital design, controlled impedance, signal integrity, and power integrity - High-speed digital, memory, and storage interfaces, with associated clocks, resets, and power sequencing - Power distribution for compute and vehicle electronics - Board bring-up, validation, diagnostics, production support, and failure investigation - Close collaboration with embedded Linux and firmware engineers during platform bring-up and hardware/software integration MOTOR CONTROLS / DRIVE ELECTRONICS The Motor Controls Responsible Engineer will own electrical hardware for motor-control systems, including: - Motor-controller hardware and power-stage electronics - Motor-drive electronics and commutation hardware - Gate drivers, current and voltage sensing, protection circuits, and control interfaces - Microcontroller-based control boards and supporting power, clocking, reset, and communication circuits - High-current layout, switching behavior, noise mitigation, thermal considerations, and fault protection - Integration with embe