We offer an entrepreneurial environment that is team-centered, customer-driven, quality-focused, and growth-oriented.
Working at Sea-Bird Scientific gives you access to a robust career development process and challenging stretch opportunities. Through strong customer partnerships, we advance the quality and delivery of water. Want to help us in this mission?
About the Role:
Are you passionate about Electrical Engineering? Do you want to contribute to critical ocean and climate research and make an impact on our environment? We are seeking a Service Engineer to join our collaborative team to help troubleshoot, repair, configure, and test industry-leading oceanographic sensors and equipment.
The Service Engineer will provide support and repair assistance to a team of technicians responsible for servicing customer equipment returned to the manufacturer for maintenance and calibration. This is equipment is used to make physical oceanographic, biogeochemical, and optical measurements in both deep ocean and freshwater environments. The instruments are used on large and small research vessels, on fixed installations and buoys, and are deployed on autonomous vehicles of various designs.
Essential Duties:
- Perform advanced hardware service and repair on customer-owned equipment
- Automate and improve service testing and repair processes to help increase service productivity
- Data driven problem solving (coordination with Service Manager/R&D/Science)
- Participate in product failure analysis and risk assessment activities
Requirements:
- BS in Electrical Engineering degree or equivalent
- 2-3 years related experience in lean manufacturing or engineering environment preferred
- Strong troubleshooting abilities and electronic test skills
- Experience writing scripts that interact with serial devices (RS-232, RS-485, Logic Level, etc.)
- Experience testing and debugging microcontrollers (such as ARM, MSP430, etc.)
- Experience writing Python (general and imbedded)
- Database interaction experience including SQL, preferred
Experience in electronics troubleshooting and design including schematic drawing, circuit simulation, printed circuit board layout and firmware coding.
The salary range for this role is $60,000.00 – $80,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in Washington. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
