# Marine Robotics Engineer

Job Description The Center for Marine Autonomy and Robotics (CMAR) at Virginia Tech seeks a Marine Robotics Engineer to design, develop, integrate, test, and deploy electrical, embedded, and software systems for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and related marine robotic platforms supporting sponsored engineering research. The position applies engineering principles to translate project requirements into assigned system designs, prototypes, and validated technical solutions. Working with faculty, senior engineering and research personnel, students, and project collaborators, the engineer will carry out defined technical assignments with professional judgment and appropriate review of designs, testing, and safety-critical decisions. Work includes embedded electronics, firmware, power and communications, sensors, actuators, onboard computing, robotic software, and system-level integration. The position is a restricted staff appointment contingent upon continued funding and satisfactory performance. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, robotics, computer science, or a closely related field, and/or an equivalent level of traini

- **Id**: 4212632
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/virginia-tech-marine-robotics-engineer>
- **Role**: Robotics
- **Role family**: Robotics
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Suffolk, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T08:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T01:32:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4907
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Marine & Ocean Engineering, Underwater & Marine Robotics, Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 35633
- **Name**: Virginia Tech
- **Domain**: vt.edu
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/virginia-tech-news>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: PageUp

## Salary

- **Min**: 80000
- **Max**: 105000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 105000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **ROS** — Optional: yes
- **ROS2** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T01:32:35Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 76
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T03:47:19Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 105000
- **Is top pay**: no

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