Field Engineering Associate (RESA IV)
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The Field Engineering Associate provides technical support for unique underwater sensor suites, including system grooming, operations, and maintenance. The role supports planning, testing, training, and documentation for complex acoustic systems and advanced sensors, including work aboard training, UUV support, and US Navy platforms. It also involves troubleshooting electromechanical assemblies and computer networks, coordinating with sponsors and operators, and responding to end-user needs.
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Full job description
Provide field engineering technical support for unique underwater sensor suites to include system grooming, operations and maintenance. Support the coordination and planning ofthe continuedgrooming, testingandutilization of complex acoustic systems. Serve as a team member for the development of operator training materials and for providing operator training.Participate in formal documentation through the development of test and maintenance procedures and formal work packages. Participate in the development of technical documentation and manuals to support operation and maintenance of unique underwater sensors.Participate in system testing, maintenance and training onboard an Operational Training Platform, UUV support platforms and/or on US Navy platforms. Provide field engineering support; use manuals and automated electronic tools to troubleshoot, assemble and repair electromechanical assemblies, computers and computer networks.Participate in the definition, implementation, and use of training curriculum and special training systems to be used in the operation and maintenance of advanced sensors.Perform liaison tasks with sponsoring organizations and prepare and present formal progress and status briefs covering on-going activities.Maintain working relationships with vendors, program sponsors, project partner organizations, and system operators from the US Navy. Research and incorporate new technologies for system enhancements. Assist Supervisor and Engineers as required, travel as required.Respond to emergent needs of end-users of advanced sensors with respect to logistics and operational availability.Other related functions as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 464 open Field Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$108–172K/yr191 salary ranges
- US median$20–25/hr60 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 16 open Field Engineering jobs in Washington and 464 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
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- Experience
- Field Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (321 postings).
- Education
- 125 of the 464 open Field Engineering jobs (27%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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