R&D Engineer - Robotics
📌Ultimo, Australia 🇦🇺
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
hybrid
It's never been a more exciting time to be joining Navantia Australia, one of Australia's leading companies in the Maritime and Defence industry.
Navantia Australia, in partnership with University Technology (UTS) Sydney have create a new arm to what they do: Marintec. Marintec aims to nurture Australia’s sovereign capability in the maritime sector through cutting edge research and development in digital technologies.
We have exciting opportunities for a Research and Development (R&D) Engineer to join the team out of its UTS campus office, Sydney. In the role, one supports the design, development, and integration of innovative engineering solutions to enhance platform systems and related naval technologies. The role supports the development of infrastructure and frameworks for the smart sustainment of naval platforms
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Control Systems Engineering Expertise: You will lead the digital twin project for propulsion and power plant systems. This involves delivering technical support for the installation, configuration, testing, and validation of control systems and associated software. Additionally, you present and demonstrate new technologies integrated with the control systems to stakeholders as required.
- R&D Projects Support: You engage in cross-functional collaboration with ongoing research initiatives at Navantia Australia, Marintec, and other relevant research activities within the Innovation and R&D team.
- Liaise with External Partners: You coordinate with our parent company, Navantia Spain for technology transfer initiatives, particularly in areas of modelling and simulation, control algorithms, optimization, and AI. You ensure the effective integration of transferred technologies into R&D projects.
- Stakeholder Engagement: You gather design inputs and manage stakeholder requirements to ensure the development of solutions that align with customer needs and expectations. You also communicate progress and developments to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project goals.
- Supervision and Mentorship: You supervise and provide guidance to R&D graduates and interns, helping them develop the skills required to contribute to ongoing projects and initiatives.
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Technological Awareness: You remain informed of advancements in modelling and simulation, control algorithms, optimization, and AI. You undertake research to effectively integrate these technologies into R&D projects.
- Technical Expertise in Engineering: Skilled in the principles and application of digital twins for propulsion and power plants. Strong grasp of the physics and mathematics underlying components, supporting the modelling for digital twin.
- Modelling and Simulation: Ability to develop accurate models of electrical systems, with experience in tools such as MATLAB/Simulink. Experienced with real-time simulation and advanced data analysis through scripting languages such as Python, enabling predictive and prescriptive analytics to optimize system performance.
- Analytical Skills and Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills to diagnose system issues and identify innovative solutions. Proven ability to conduct detailed engineering analyses, perform root cause investigations, and develop solutions that improve system resilience and mission readiness.
- Research and Development Aptitude: Demonstrated research capabilities, with a focus on integrating advanced technologies and methodologies such as Digital Twin, AI, optimization, and control algorithms within naval engineering contexts.
- Collaborative Experience: Ability to work within cross-functional teams and with academic and industry partners. Experience collaborating on R&D initiatives and supporting knowledge transfer efforts with external stakeholders.
- Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Skilled in presenting complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including stakeholders and team members. Proficient in delivering technical demonstrations and collaborating on project deliverables aligned with stakeholder needs and objectives.
- Experience in Defence Maritime Domain: Demonstrated experience working in Defence Maritime domain, with a deep understanding of the operational and sustainment requirements for naval engineering platforms.
- R&D Project Experience: Previous involvement in R&D projects, contributing engineering expertise from project initiation through development, testing, and finalization.
- ICT and Cybersecurity Awareness: Sound knowledge of ICT operations and an understanding of cybersecurity threats and risk management, particularly in the context of control systems and Defencerelated technologies.
- Supervision and Mentorship: Experience supervising and mentoring early-career professionals in related engineering fields, fostering knowledge transfer and skill development.
- Australian Citizenship is required for this position.
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PhD Degree qualified or undertaking is preferred for this position, ideally in model predictive control or digital twin technology for complex engineering systems.
Navantia Australia plays a key part in the Australian government's Naval Shipbuilding Plan, we are committed to growing Australia's shipbuilding and sustainment capability and we want you to grow your career with us. We recognise that it's our people who are our greatest asset and are committed to giving all employees the opportunity to grow their skills, gain valuable experience, develop professionally, and work on exciting diverse projects. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer and embrace culture of corporate diversity and workplace innovation.
We Provide a Range Of Benefits Including
Navantia Australia specialises in project management, engineering services and through life support in the naval shipbuilding domain. We provide the Royal Australian Navy (Navy) with cross platform solutions through our heritage and evolved capability as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and our platform integration expertise.
As the designer and through participation in the Destroyer Guided Missile (DDG), Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment (AOR), Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) and LHD Landing Craft (LLC) programs, Navantia Australia has been a vital part of interesting, innovative and cutting-edge shipbuilding and sustainment activities. Navantia Australia also supports the Navy through provision of design compliant and product agnostic engineering upgrades to meet demands for capability advancements to accommodate for new and emerging threats.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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