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# Application Engineer

- **Company:** SR2
- **Location:** Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- **Salary:** £55,270.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Data Analysis, Communications Protocols, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Systems Integration, Test Data, GNSS
- **Published:** October 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5904078400

## About the Role

* Strong systems integration, applications or field engineering experience
 * Hands-on integration and troubleshooting of electronic / sensor-based systems
 * Comfortable working across hardware, software and data
 * Experience analysing logs, test data and system behaviour to diagnose issues
 * Strong customer-facing communication and technical problem-solving skills
 * Experience integrating systems onto autonomous, robotic, marine or similarly complex platforms
 * Comfortable supporting commissioning, testing and real-world deployments

Desirable:

 * GNSS, INS, IMU or other positioning / navigation technologies
 * UAV, UGV, ROV or AUV platforms
 * Robotics or autonomous systems
 * Subsea / marine technology
 * Python and/or MATLAB
 * ROS / ROS2
 * SDKs and APIs
 * Telemetry and communications protocols
 * Sensor calibration, configuration or data analysis

## Description

This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role for someone who enjoys working across hardware, software and data. You'll help customers integrate complex sensing systems onto real-world platforms, investigate technical issues and support systems through commissioning and deployment.


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