Saildrone
201 - 500 employees
🎖️ Defense
🔧 Hardware
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
🔥 Funding within the last year
💰 $50M Corporate Round - Saildrone on 2025-10
Defense • Hardware • Artificial Intelligence
Saildrone is a maritime autonomous systems company that designs, manufactures and operates unmanned surface vehicles (ocean drones) built to endure the world’s harshest seas. Its platforms combine advanced sensor suites, AI, and renewable power to deliver persistent, wide-area ocean mapping, bathymetry, hydrography, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data and services for defense, maritime security, offshore energy, and scientific customers. Saildrone emphasizes long-endurance, low-risk operations to provide real-time threat detection, tracking, and actionable data to decision-makers and warfighters.
Hydrographic Surveyor
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Saildrone
201 - 500 employees
🎖️ Defense
🔧 Hardware
🤖 Artificial Intelligence
🔥 Funding within the last year
💰 $50M Corporate Round - Saildrone on 2025-10
Defense • Hardware • Artificial Intelligence
Saildrone is a maritime autonomous systems company that designs, manufactures and operates unmanned surface vehicles (ocean drones) built to endure the world’s harshest seas. Its platforms combine advanced sensor suites, AI, and renewable power to deliver persistent, wide-area ocean mapping, bathymetry, hydrography, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data and services for defense, maritime security, offshore energy, and scientific customers. Saildrone emphasizes long-endurance, low-risk operations to provide real-time threat detection, tracking, and actionable data to decision-makers and warfighters.
📋 Description
• Support collection of deep water bathymetric data using an uncrewed survey vehicle • Participate in collection, monitoring, analysis, and interpretation of marine survey data • Perform data QA/QC, equipment setup and calibration, data acquisition, data processing, equipment maintenance, and production of final deliverables and reports • Participate in bathymetric survey projects from assignment through completion • Assist the Lead Surveyor with project reporting tasks • Stand watches monitoring sonars and sensors on an internationally operating fleet of Saildrones • Plan routes and communicate with drone pilots and the mission Lead Surveyor to meet survey objectives and standards • Communicate survey status, update survey plans, troubleshoot and resolve issues, and maintain survey schedules • Ensure field procedures and Saildrone data collection standards are followed • Ensure compliance with company, industry, and local regulatory standards • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement of processes and procedures • Keep current with IHO and national data standards and survey procedures
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Hydrography, Oceanography, Geomatics, Remote Sensing or related discipline • 3 or more years experience in the Survey or Geoscience industry as a survey professional • Familiarity with multibeam systems such as Kongsberg, Norbit, Teledyne • Familiarity with acquisition software such as Seafloor Information Systems (SIS), Norbit DCT or Qinsy • Ability to work irregular hours, rotating weekends, and shift work • Category A/B Hydrographer Certification (desired) • NSPS-THSOA Certified Hydrographer (desired) • Three or more years of experience processing bathymetric/hydrographic data with Qimera or CARIS (desired) • Experience using uncrewed surface vehicles or other autonomous systems for survey operations, including remote watch-standing, telemetry monitoring, and real-time troubleshooting (desired) • Detail-oriented with a disciplined approach to communications, processes, and projects • Excellent oral and written communication skills (desired) • Ability to operate a keyboard and other peripheral devices
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) accrual • Robust annual holiday schedule • Paid sick leave • Medical, Dental, and Vision plans with significant company contributions for employees and dependents • Equity grants • 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth payroll contribution options • Annual professional development reimbursement program • Relocation assistance for eligible roles
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