Maritime Autonomous System Engineer - Bristol
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Job description for DE&S Maritime Autonomous Systems Engineer
Are you interested in working at the cutting-edge of technology, working towards making our waters safer?
DE&S have exciting opportunities for Maritime Autonomous Systems Engineers to join their Bristol-based team, in high-profile posts within the Innovation and Future Capability team, at the centre of the Ships Acquisition domain. These posts are concerned with replacing the Royal Navy’s existing mine-hunters with a new, unmanned mine-hunting and disposal system, to safely clear sea mines. The system’s innovative and modernised technology has the ability to defeat sea mines. This novel mine-hunting system, which features a navigational ‘sense and avoid’ capability, could also work together with other similar autonomous systems for the common goal of making our waters safer.
The project aims to demonstrate the viability of an unmanned system that can safely and successfully clear mines, and is designed to be operated from a land or ship-based operations centre and deployed from a suitable ship or port. This unmanned autonomous mine-hunting system is at the forefront of technology.
If you have autonomous technology and/or robotics systems experience (or experience within an aligned discipline), this could be the role for you. This is an area of ongoing development and investment, with additional opportunities planned for the near future, for which you may also be considered.
In these positions, you will interface with industry as the intelligent customer, both in a scrutiny and engineering assurance role, and support the identification of technical and safety risks in the procurement of this new unmanned autonomous mine-hunting system. You will ensure that this acquisition meets requirements, as set out by the Royal Navy, and manage the delivery of all engineering aspects in your area of responsibility, including design development, managing safety and certification management of technical is.....