Senior Electrical Engineer

Job Description

An exciting climate tech start-up are looking for an experienced Development Engineer with a background in Electrical Engineering to join their growing team based in Oxford, UK. This is an exceptional opportunity for a talented engineer with a background in developing power/Energy systems to play a key role an ocean energy start-up set to revolutionise energy by providing a better, smarter method of generating energy.

The Company

By 2050 the global ocean energy sector will be worth an estimated $53bn a year, 11% of the UK energy industry could be tidal – worth approximately £3bn in 2035. The sector has enormous potential.

This company, an innovative ocean energy start-up, have developed a tidal energy platform that will surpass current ocean energy technologies. The company’s platform is based on original research from the University of Oxford. Through biomimicry the company have developed a fin based system that can operate in slow tides and shallow waters, overcoming the constraints of pre-existing ocean energy technologies. Simply put the technology is a better, smarter, energy generator with far less constraints and a far greater return than the current ocean energy technologies such as offshore windfarms.

The role

The company, a start-up, are expanding and looking to recruit an experienced Electrical Engineer, to join their team as Senior Development Engineer. The Development Engineer will be a key member of a small, agile team working to develop the company’s core technology. They will be working alongside industry experts to develop the overall platform from prototype to scale.

The Engineer will own the design and testing of the stage of the device that takes intermittent mechanical motion to electricity that can be utilised by the customer.

Specifically:

• Designing
• Overseeing prototyping (& where appropriate using the company’s workshop facilities to modify / install)
• Be key part of the team testing the device
• Measuring during testing
• Analysis and iteration of the result.

This is an exceptional opportunity to be part of a superb team undertaking novel product development activities to generate the next of smart ocean energy - tidal power.

To be considered for the position of Senior Electrical Engineer / Development Engineer you need the following experience:

Education:

• A degree in engineering or equivalent experience.

Essential:

Experience of:

• Full product development lifecycle, concept, design, build and test.
• Power generating systems design experience utilising gearboxes and generators/motors
• Coding using Python
• Experience of embedded software and control systems

Desirable.

• Prior experience of working in the marine industry in a development position
• 3D printing experience
• Mechanical design using CAD
• SolidWorks