Albacore Inc. is a Philadelphia-based company building highly-capable, mass-producible drone submarines to defend sovereign waters of America and allied nations. We are backed with more than $10 million from Y Combinator and venture capital investors.
About the Team
Albacore is bringing our passion to innovation in the subsea domain, and we are looking to add a Field Test Engineer to join the Ghostfin Field Operations team.The Field Test Engineer will own the discipline of test planning and execution including writing and documenting test plans for every deployment, running in-water testing, and facilitating forward deployed activities with overseas customers. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role where you will leverage your technical expertise to test and operate this modern subsea platform in the most challenging and dynamic conditions.
What you'll do
Prepare for field exercises by identifying, sourcing and preparing UUV test and support equipment
Write and execute day to day test operations plans and capture detailed daily operations and test reports
Conduct daily UUV inspections and systems checks for the Ghostfin both before and after operations
Coordinate regular UUV launch and recovery operations–you’ll be in the water most weekdays as we rapidly mature the platform
Become the vehicle subject matter expert in the field, able to perform maintenance, troubleshooting, repair, and upgrades in austere conditions
Travel to client sites to train customer operators on vehicle functionality, deployment, retrieval, and mission planning capabilities
Bring an operator's perspective to augment development, bringing constructive feedback to Engineering for UX/UI considerations, Standard Operating Procedures, and user documentation
Qualifications
4+ years working hands-on with a technical team through the full arc of integration, test, and field verification of a complex electromechanical system
Comfortable becoming the go-to expert on a technical platform end-to-end
Sharp, practical problem-solver who is at ease working across hardware, software, and networking boundaries, who can take an ambiguous, half-defined issue and work it methodically to a real answer
Genuinely curious individual who picks up new technical systems and concepts on their own rather than waiting to be taught
Highly organized and methodical, especially under pressure — someone who gets more deliberate, not reactive, when things get stressful
Willing to be hands-on and in the field, not just planning from a desk
Comfortable and confident working on the water — driving a boat, towing a trailer, handling dock lines, and generally at ease around marine equipment
Ability to lift and maneuver test equipment and vehicle components up to 50 lbs
Travel 25-50% as needed
Preferred Qualifications
Engineering Degree or comparable experience preferred
Comfortable reading and working from technical documentation including mechanical drawings, wiring diagrams, work instructions or equipment schematics
Experience running functional checkouts or acceptance tests and knowing when to fix an issue on the spot versus flag it up the chain
General Boating License
Numbers & Facts
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Skills
Acceptance Testingunmatched
Customer Trainingunmatched
Documentationunmatched
Electrical Wiringunmatched
Electromechanical Systemsunmatched
Field Trialsunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Integration Testingunmatched
Operationsunmatched
Operations Planningunmatched
Organizational Skillsunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Schematicsunmatched
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
Technical Writingunmatched
Test Equipmentunmatched
Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
Testingunmatched
Training/Teachingunmatched
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)unmatched
User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)unmatched
Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
Venture Capitalunmatched
Water Quality Testingunmatched
Willing to Travelunmatched
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