Electrical Engineer, Senior

Cellula Robotics

Cellula Robotics

Other Engineering
Burnaby, BC, Canada
Posted on Oct 13, 2025

Cellula is looking to add a Senior Electrical Engineer to its Engineering team to support product development and project delivery.

Cellula Robotics Ltd. is a world-leading marine technology company focused on changing the paradigm of subsea survey, science and security through modular, long range, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) systems. Our company is growing and is transitioning from building mostly one-of-a-kind prototypes to completing the development of our four core products and will be delivering multiples of those products to our customers. Our products are configured for each client to deliver required capabilities to the end-user. We are committed to producing sustainable solutions for the defense, mineral exploration, and energy sectors driven by innovation and industry knowledge. We’re looking for enthusiastic and energetic people to join us in this growth and transition.

At Cellula we believe in collaboration, innovation, adaptability and reliability. These values are woven through all our products and how we do business. Our products are designed to be solutions to the challenges and capability needs of our clients, which often requires developing new capabilities and subsystems unique to a particular application. These systems are designed, built, and tested in-house by a skilled team of engineers, technicians, and support staff. People are at the heart of our business, and we pride ourselves in having a team-based workplace and building partnerships to solve the most difficult challenges in ocean technology. We believe in learning and innovating by doing. We send staff along with our products into the field to learn from our clients which informs our innovation.

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you’ll leave your mark across Cellula’s products and leverage your experience to improve and shape how we do electrical engineering. As a senior electrical engineer, you’ll take ownership for a product or system’s design, how it works, is built, tested, and supported. You’ll foster a positive team culture while providing leadership, mentorship, and oversight to junior engineers in their design efforts. You’ll also be responsible for creating, reviewing & approving electrical engineering content, and championing organizational improvements where you see a need. We expect our senior engineers to become the “go to” experts in their areas of experience and become subject matter experts in AUVs and other subsea technologies. The ideal candidate has experience in subsea technology such as AUVs, acoustics, ROVs, or similar systems, or has experience in adjacent industries like robotics or other low volume high mix engineering where systems have undergone the transition from prototype to product.

As a company, we offer team members a chance to grow professionally. Our office is a casual, collaborative environment where you will be able to learn about our state-of-the-art systems from technical experts. We’re excited for you to contribute your experience and make a positive impact on how we grow. In addition, we offer flexible work hours, benefits, and competitive compensation. This position is primarily an on-site position with some limited flexibility for remote work.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Manage and lead large electrical design, build and integration projects
  • Act as the electrical lead and manage a program or a project’s electrical design team
  • Work with project management teams to ensure work is executed according to budgets & schedule
  • Ensure electrical designs meet all appropriate requirements and standards
  • Review & approve electrical drawings (as P.Eng)
  • Write detailed sub-system requirements as needed
  • Being the “go to” person in areas of your expertise
    • Staying current in those areas
    • Being willing & able to provide training to co-workers as needed
  • Author internal technical documents as required
  • Assist with creating electrical work packages (budgets)
  • International travel may be required (up to 8 weeks a year)
  • Offshore work may be required

Required Skills & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • P.Eng with EGBC
  • Minimum 7 years of experience working on complex embedded electrical systems
  • Electrical/electronic prototype assembly and testing, or productization of prototype systems
  • At least 2 years experience with offshore operation of susbsea systems, or equivalent experience with system operating in “real world” conditions
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively share technical knowledge with team members
  • Ability to lead large electrical projects (designs, builds, integrations, tests, commissioning)

Desirable Skills & Experience

  • Electrical noise filtering & suppression techniques for subsea
  • Grounding, ground fault detection & isolation systems for subsea
  • Experience turning discrete sub-systems into optimised PCB assemblies
  • Brushless DC motors
  • Precision timing & triggering circuits (e.g. PPS)
  • Test & measurement practices for electronics and electrical sub-systems
  • ISO 9001 quality environment

Please include a cover letter as part of your application.

Reports to: Electrical Engineering Manager

Position type: Full time