Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
"We go to impossible places to do impossible things."
- Dr. Mark R. Abbott, WHOI President and Director
Some of the jobs available at WHOI:
- Robotic Software Engineer to work within the VAST (Various Autonomous Subsea Technologies) group within the Deep Submergence lab.  Develop soft real time control code, communications code, GUIs and other code for AUV operations.
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- Robotics Engineer, Oceanographic Systems Lab (OSL). OSL is one of the world’s leaders in AUV technology and their operations in many complex oceanographic environments.  Perform a wide range of mechanical design and system testing tasks related to autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and their subsystems. The position will include both mechanical (70%) and systems (30%) engineering, with a focus on detailed design of mechanical systems and integration of multiple electrical subsystems, sensors and power sources.
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- Principal Systems Administrator, Information Services Department.  Work closely with scientists and researchers who are leaders in their fields.  Architect, implement, and support WHOI’s servers, data storage, and HPC clusters and applications, with an emphasis on High Performance Computing (HPC).
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If you have questions about Engineering in Oceanography please email me - I am an Electrical Engineer who switched careers into oceanography 5 years ago and love it.  I am designing an open source underwater robot, working on a 3D acoustic telescope and run a lab that maintains and designs the electronics on over 25 buoys.   
john at johnreine dot com
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