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Career opportunities at JASCO Applied Sciences
Since 1981, JASCO Applied Sciences has worked with clients in offshore energy, renewables, marine construction, shipping, defence, environmental assessment, and related sectors, providing sound scientific advice, technical excellence, and practical solutions for the management of underwater noise. Our teams design, build, and support specialized acoustic monitoring systems that help clients understand and protect marine environments around the world.
JASCO develops and implements a full spectrum of underwater acoustic technologies and services, from sophisticated acoustic recording systems, to advanced modelling algorithms, to specialised biological interpretation. We provide acoustic consulting, field monitoring, and data analysis services across all stages of environmental review and assessment for underwater noise.
Our employees are the foundation of our success. We value honesty, initiative, integrity, and respect, and we foster a workplace where everyone is supported to do their best work.
At JASCO, we believe that diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds make us stronger. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique talents. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those from communities and groups that have been historically underrepresented.
We are also committed to providing an accessible and inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please let us know. We will work with you to provide the support you need and ensure you can participate fully and equitably.
We seek candidates who can contribute in one or more of the following areas, depending on the positions available and the applicant’s qualifications:
Computer programming
Physics
Optics
Marine biology
Oceanography
Acoustics
Engineering
Current opportunities
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If you are an experienced electrical or electronics engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems, leading others, and contributing to meaningful marine technology, this could be a great next step in your career.
About the role:
In this role, you will provide both technical and people leadership for the team responsible for designing, verifying, and validating low-noise, low-power electronic systems used in underwater acoustic recorders, sensors, and related marine technology products. You will have the opportunity to stay close to the engineering work while also coaching team members, improving design practices, coordinating priorities across multidisciplinary projects, and helping the team deliver reliable, high-quality systems for challenging marine environments.
What you’ll do:
Lead the design, verification, and validation of printed circuit assemblies for underwater acoustic recorders, sensors, and other JASCO equipment.
Guide system-level electrical architecture for ultra-low-noise analogue/audio, mixed-signal, low-power, and sensor front-end electronics.
Provide hands-on technical leadership for noise analysis, grounding, shielding, interference mitigation, power performance, environmental constraints, and related design risks.
Lead design reviews, support troubleshooting of complex electrical issues, and mentor engineers in advanced analogue/audio, mixed-signal, and low-noise design practices.
Support, mentor, and develop electrical engineering team members, helping them set priorities, strengthen technical approaches, maintain clear documentation, and continue growing professionally.
Coordinate team workload, resource planning, task assignments, estimates, schedules, risks, and delivery commitments.
Work closely with Systems, Mechanical, Firmware, Software, Production, Quality, Supply Chain, external vendors, clients, and stakeholders to support integrated project delivery.
Maintain clear, version-controlled engineering documentation, including design records, verification and validation evidence, review outputs, technical decisions, and supporting calculations.
Identify and support practical improvements to design standards, documentation practices, review routines, prototype processes, test readiness, and knowledge sharing.
What you’ll bring:
A degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Significant experience in electrical or electronic engineering, including experience supervising, mentoring, or providing technical leadership to engineering staff.
Demonstrated strong expertise in ultra-low-noise analogue/audio circuit design and mixed-signal printed circuit board design for low-noise applications.
Experience with the design, verification, and validation of printed circuit assemblies for electrical or electronic equipment.
Strong working knowledge of noise analysis, grounding, shielding, interference mitigation, low-power design, and sensor front-end design such as hydrophones or microphones.
Experience designing electronics for low-power, long-duration, field-deployed, or environmentally constrained systems.
The ability to coordinate technical work, manage priorities, support estimates, identify risks, and contribute to project planning in a collaborative, deadline-driven engineering environment.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear technical documentation, reports, status updates, and design review materials.
A collaborative leadership style with strong organizational, interpersonal, mentoring, problem-solving, and team-development skills.
The ability to successfully complete reliability status security screening, including applicable criminal record and background checks and related residency requirements.
Assets:
Experience working in marine technology, underwater acoustics, ocean technology, environmental monitoring, instrumentation, sensors, embedded systems, or other specialized engineering environments.
Understanding of environmental, mechanical, and deployment constraints relevant to marine systems.
Experience working with hydrophones, microphones, underwater acoustic systems, or related sensor technologies.
Experience supporting prototype builds, design iteration, production transition, test engineering, vendor coordination, or manufacturer engagement.
Experience designing test systems, test fixtures, or production test approaches for circuit boards or electronic assemblies.
Board-level RF design experience.
FPGA/CPLD design experience, including VHDL.
Experience programming in C and/or using scientific analysis software.
Experience improving engineering workflows, technical standards, design review practices, documentation systems, or quality processes.
Professional engineering registration or eligibility for registration, where applicable.
Security Screening Requirement:
If this role sounds like a strong fit, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please submit your resume and, if helpful, a brief cover letter outlining your relevant technical project management experience, including examples of how you have coordinated complex engineering or product development work, supported cross-functional teams, and helped bring projects from planning through delivery. Please also let us know whether you meet the 5-year Canadian residence requirement needed to support timely reliability status screening. We appreciate the time and interest of all applicants; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Send your cover letter and resume to careers@jasco.com.
Ready to make waves? Apply now!
If this opportunity sounds like a fit for your skills and experience, we encourage you to apply. Send your cover letter and resume to careers@jasco.com.
We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences and are committed to an inclusive recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, support can be provided.
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If you are an experienced Technical Project Manager who enjoys bringing clarity, structure, and momentum to complex engineering work, this is an opportunity to lead meaningful technical development projects in a collaborative, purpose-driven environment. You will help multidisciplinary teams turn ideas into reliable products and systems, balancing technical detail with practical delivery, stakeholder alignment, and high-quality execution.
About the role:
In this role, you will help plan, coordinate, and deliver engineering development projects across technical disciplines such as systems, software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, test, quality, operations, and supply chain. You will bring structure to complex work by managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, and change control while keeping stakeholders aligned and delivery commitments visible.
You will work closely with Engineering leadership and cross-functional partners to define project plans, clarify requirements, coordinate integration milestones, support verification and validation planning, and make sure teams have the information, decisions, and alignment they need to deliver high-quality outcomes.
What you’ll do:
Manage technical development projects from concept through release, coordinating cross-functional engineering workstreams and integration milestones.
Develop and maintain project plans, including scope, schedule, budget, resources, deliverables, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and key decision points.
Facilitate planning, prioritization, and decision-making with Engineering leadership, Product or Program stakeholders, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, and other partners.
Translate stakeholder needs into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, priorities, and project deliverables.
Track project progress, manage risks and issues, support change control, and escalate decisions or constraints when needed.
Coordinate verification, validation, integration testing, compliance needs, and release readiness activities with relevant technical teams.
Prepare clear project documentation, status updates, trackers, meeting notes, decision summaries, and reporting materials.
Identify practical opportunities to improve engineering delivery practices, planning routines, documentation standards, and project management workflows.
What you’ll bring:
Post-secondary education in engineering, applied science, computer science, project management, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience managing technical projects, engineering development programs, product development initiatives, or complex cross-functional technical deliverables.
Working knowledge of engineering development lifecycles, including requirements, design, implementation, integration, verification, validation, testing, and release.
Strong ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and change control in a deadline-driven environment.
Ability to coordinate across technical disciplines and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong written communication, facilitation, organization, prioritization, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
Assets:
Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent project management certification or training.
Experience managing distributed or multi-site technical teams.
Experience with hybrid delivery approaches, including structured project management practices and iterative engineering workflows.
Experience with tools such as Jira, Wrike, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar systems.
Experience coordinating verification and validation activities, release readiness, production transition, or technical acceptance processes.
Experience in technical product development, marine technology, underwater acoustics, environmental monitoring, instrumentation, sensors, embedded systems, or other specialized engineering environments.
Security Screening Requirement:
Because of the nature of the work, this position requires, at minimum, the ability to successfully complete reliability status security screening. This includes a 5-year criminal record check and a 5-year background check. To obtain this status in a timely manner, candidates must have resided continuously in Canada for the past 5 years. Please indicate in your resume or cover letter whether you meet the 5-year residence requirement.
Ready to make waves? Apply now!
If this role sounds like a strong fit, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please submit your resume and, if helpful, a brief cover letter outlining your relevant technical project management experience, including examples of how you have coordinated complex engineering or product development work, supported cross-functional teams, and helped bring projects from planning through delivery. Please also let us know whether you meet the 5-year Canadian residence requirement needed to support timely reliability status screening. We appreciate the time and interest of all applicants; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Send your cover letter and resume to careers@jasco.com.
We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences and are committed to an inclusive recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, support can be provided.
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Are you a Systems Engineer who enjoys solving technical problems, working with multidisciplinary teams, and helping turn complex requirements into reliable ocean technology and defence-related systems? This role offers the opportunity to grow your systems engineering experience while contributing to meaningful work across requirements, architecture, integration, testing, documentation, deployment, and sustainment.
About the role:
In this role, you will support the development of advanced ocean technology and defence-related systems from concept through deployment and sustainment. You will help define requirements, support system architecture and interfaces, contribute to integration and testing, maintain technical documentation, and support configuration management and lifecycle activities.
You will work closely with software, electrical, mechanical, firmware, production, quality, and project engineering teams to help ensure technical solutions are clear, traceable, testable, maintainable, and aligned with stakeholder, customer, project, quality, reliability, and performance expectations. This opportunity is well suited to someone who is curious, detail-oriented, collaborative, and interested in building practical systems engineering skills.
What you’ll do:
Support the capture, analysis, documentation, review, allocation, and traceability of stakeholder, customer, system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
Assist with operational concepts, use cases, scenarios, system behaviour descriptions, trade studies, and technical discussions that support solution definition.
Contribute to system architecture, subsystem relationships, functional allocations, interface definitions, integration approaches, and related technical documentation.
Participate in requirements, architecture, design, interface, test readiness, and technical planning reviews with multidisciplinary teams.
Support verification and validation planning, procedures, acceptance criteria, test execution, evidence collection, test reports, and follow-up actions.
Assist with laboratory, environmental, production, field, and operational testing, including preparation, data collection, analysis, results documentation, and troubleshooting.
Prepare and maintain clear technical documentation, including specifications, interface documentation, engineering reports, user documentation, verification evidence, and engineering records.
Support configuration management, including change control, document versioning, configuration identification, issue tracking, and release processes.
Coordinate with engineering, production, quality, and project contributors to clarify expectations, resolve system-level issues, and improve documentation, testing, integration, traceability, and knowledge-sharing practices.
What you’ll bring:
Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, computer science, applied science, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Typically 2–5 years of engineering experience; recent graduates with relevant project, capstone, internship, or co-op experience may also be considered.
Working knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle processes, including requirements, design, integration, verification, validation, testing, and sustainment.
Ability to support requirements documentation, interface definition, verification evidence, technical decisions, and test-result documentation.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills, with careful attention to detail.
Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary teams and manage multiple technical tasks concurrently in a deadline-driven engineering environment.
Commitment to continuous learning, practical engineering delivery, and clear technical documentation.
Ability to successfully complete Reliability Status security screening, including applicable criminal record and background checks and any related residency requirements.
Assets:
Experience with requirements management tools, traceability practices, structured requirements documentation, configuration management, change control, issue tracking, or technical decision records.
Experience supporting verification and validation planning, test procedure development, acceptance testing, test reporting, field trials, deployments, or operational testing.
Familiarity with electronics, embedded systems, software development, mechanical systems, test equipment, sensors, communications, or production transition activities.
Experience supporting marine technology, underwater acoustics, autonomous systems, defence systems, environmental monitoring, instrumentation, or related technical environments.
Experience preparing technical reports, risk assessments, design review materials, customer-facing technical documentation, or operational support materials.
Security Screening Requirement:
Because of the nature of the work, this position requires, at minimum, the ability to successfully complete reliability status security screening. This includes a 5-year criminal record check and a 5-year background check. To obtain this status in a timely manner, candidates must have resided continuously in Canada for the past 5 years. Please indicate in your resume or cover letter whether you meet the 5-year residence requirement.
Ready to make waves? Apply now!
If this role sounds like a strong fit, we would be pleased to hear from you. Please submit your resume and, if helpful, a brief cover letter outlining your relevant technical project management experience, including examples of how you have coordinated complex engineering or product development work, supported cross-functional teams, and helped bring projects from planning through delivery. Please also let us know whether you meet the 5-year Canadian residence requirement needed to support timely reliability status screening. We appreciate the time and interest of all applicants; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Send your cover letter and resume to careers@jasco.com.
We welcome applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences and are committed to an inclusive recruitment process. If you require accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, support can be provided.
Why you’ll love working here
Meaningful work: Contribute to technology and projects that support cutting edge ocean science, environmental monitoring, and real-world decisions that make a difference.
Collaborative teams: Work with engineers, scientists, technologists, project leaders, and operations teams who thrive on practical problem-solving and technical excellence.
Growth and learning: Take on diverse challenges and help continually improve how scientific and engineering projects are planned, coordinated, documented, and delivered.
Flexibility and balance: Join a workplace that values professionalism, accountability, and work-life balance.
Ready to contribute to meaningful marine science and technology? We would be pleased to learn how your skills and interests could make an impact.
JASCO is always interested in hearing from talented, collaborative candidates, including students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals.
If one of our posted opportunities aligns with your background, or if your experience could contribute to our work of protecting marine environments, we encourage you to send your cover letter and resume to careers@jasco.com.