Splash Inc.
Autonomous patrol-boats for National Security
Electrical Engineer
About the role
We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to design and develop advanced electronic systems for our vessels. You’ll own high-speed digital/mixed-signal design and robust power delivery, taking designs from concept through schematic/PCB, bring-up, validation, and release to production.
Requirements:
- High-speed digital: 3+ years designing and validating interfaces such as Ethernet, USB (2.0/3.x), PCIe, and MIPI CSI-2; strong grasp of SI/PI, impedance control, differential pair routing, length/Skew matching, and termination.
- Peripheral interfacing: Solid experience with I²C, SPI, and UART at the board level.
- Power delivery: Design experience with Power over Ethernet (PoE) (PD and/or PSE) as a distinct power domain, plus high-power DC/DC regulation (buck/boost), inrush/over-current protection, hot-swap, OR-ing, and thermal design.
- PCB design: Proficient with Altium Designer, KiCad, or EAGLE; comfortable creating/maintaining libraries, defining multilayer stackups, and applying DFM/DFA for scalable production.
- Lab skills: Hands-on SMD rework; competent with oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers, and power instrumentation; methodical bring-up and board-level debugging.
- Linux familiarity: Use Linux for test, flashing, automation, and hardware validation workflows (e.g., exercising interfaces, reading logs, simple scripting).
- Compliance mindset: Practical EMI/EMC layout techniques, grounding/shielding/filtering, and designing with regulatory and safety requirements in mind.
Preferred Experience:
- Firmware (bonus): STM32 microcontrollers with C/C++ (HAL/LL or bare-metal), bootloaders, and peripheral driver bring-up to accelerate hardware validation.
- System-level validation of PCIe and MIPI CSI-2 links (fixtures, eye/BER concepts, margining) and Ethernet/USB protocol-level debug.
- Experience taking boards through EMI/EMC, ESD/surge, and safety pre-scan/qualification.
- Automated test/validation (e.g., Python for bench control), production test development, and robust documentation (schematics/BOMs/bring-up notes).
About Splash Inc.
Splash is developing the next generation of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) to provide National Security and defend critical assets such as oil rigs and shipping terminals. Our long-term vision is to make traditional naval vessels obsolete by creating a fleet of low-cost and versatile boats which will be able to dominate the seas. Our expertise in mass manufacturing, engineering and quickly scaling operations will make this vision a reality.
