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Newport Electric Boats, LLC is a young company, developing next generation solutions for electric sailboats.

It's early days for us, and we are continuously improving our products and growing our operations. We're aiming to be a leader in the emerging industry of electric propulsion systems, for sailboats.

Our headquarters is in Costa Mesa California, where we have a small office and light industrial workshop. We also maintain a 33 foot sailboat in Long Beach, which serves as our test-vessel as well as our show-boat. The company’s founder and CEO, is an experienced sailor, engineer, product manager and entrepreneur.

 

Sr. or Principal Electrical Engineer - Part Time, Remote

JOB DESCRIPTION:

This position could be perfect for a later career electrical engineer who is entrepreneurial, and wants to bring experience and expertise in a wide range of engineering work, to help a young company's establish best practices as it grows.

This person is well organized, understands a wide range of electrical systems, circuit designs, and safety protocols. Also has good communication skills, verbally and in writing.

Any experience with marine electrical systems is a plus.

Desired skills:

  • Able to develop and document electrical systems, including electrical components and sub-systems, based on datasheets, wire diagrams, and sketches.
  • Be capable of working with vendors for wire harness development, metal fabrications, and other project engineering tasks.
  • Meet through video-calls (google meet, or zoom) periodically and discuss issues and their status, as well as work from a kanban scrum board.
  • Creates electrical and system tests, including for lab environment, and evaluate test results
  • Develop and/or select off the shelf assemblies and components that meet an applications needs
  • Document test setups, test methods and evaluate results
  • Ability to work both, hands-on as well as work at a desk/computer to solve electrical problems and test systems

If this role sounds exciting, and the company's mission resonates with you, we'd love to hear from you ASAP.

Job Type: Part-time

Benefits:

Flexible schedule
Remote Workplace

*This position could be eligible for equity units of the company as part of the compensation package, after an initial trial period

Schedule:

Flexible, with ability to meet periodically during business hours (Pacific-Time)

Send resume and cover letter to:  jobs@NewportElectricBoats.com