Senior Electrical Engineer
OceanComm
Chicago, IL · $140k–$175k a year · Posted September 25, 2026
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This listing pays about $157,500 a year. Across 257 open senior electrical engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $132,500 to $165,000 and the median is $154,500. That is inside the middle half of those listings, 2% above the median.
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About the job
Underwater communication is one of the hardest wireless problems on Earth. Radio waves attenuate quickly underwater, so our systems use sound, much like whales and dolphins, to transmit high-bandwidth