Scientific Drilling International is looking for an Electronic Engineer II to work at our Applied Technologies Center in Paso Robles, CA, or from our Applied Technologies Center in Houston, TX with travel required to Paso Robles, CA. Scientific Drilling is an independent directional drilling and wellbore navigation, surveying and logging service company serving customers worldwide.

Paso Robles is located halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, in San Luis Obispo County. Paso Robles is surrounded by scenic rolling hills and California's premier wine regions and is only 27 miles from beautiful beaches. This thriving community of over 30,000 actively engaged residents possesses the benefits of a suburban-rural community while retaining a small-town feel. With over 200 wineries nearby and a bustling downtown with a variety of excellent restaurants and specialty retail, Paso Robles is fast becoming one of the most desirable places to live, work, and play.

We are looking for an Electronic Engineer to be a key part of a small collaborative team focused on the advancement of our Measure While Drilling and Logging While Drilling wellbore systems. Our industry-leading navigation systems provide definitive survey information, enabling safer and more efficient placement of tightly spaced wellbores throughout the world. Our logging systems provide reliable technologies for assessing formation characteristics to evaluate well bore placement for optimal resource extraction. We are motivated by crafting innovative and elegant solutions to technically challenging problems.

Responsibilities may vary based on the education and experience of the candidate but will generally include:

• Designs, develops, and tests electronic systems and subsystems including:
• switch mode power supplies
• precision analog-to-digital converter sensor interfaces
• low power electronic design
• microcontroller, DSP, and FPGA system design
• prototype firmware for system and board testing
• PCB layout
• Collaborates at a systems level with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Creates clear technical design documentation and implementation specifications.
• Conducts, analyzes, and documents lab and field test results.

Qualifications and Preferred Skills:

• Passionate problem solver
• Electronic design from concept to manufactured hardware.
• Hands-on debugging, bring up, and testing of electronic subsystems and systems.
• Board design and layout
• Knowledge of control systems, servos, PLLs, sensors, communications
• Basic C-based firmware development
• Experience developing and debugging algorithms in Python, MATLAB, and/or C/C++/Java
• Good communication skills and excellent attention to detail
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or Physics or equivalent experience
• 1 to 5 years work experience past internships and education