Senior Software Engineer – Maritime Optimization

🕒 August 31

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Sofar Ocean

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $22.3M Funding Round - Sofar Ocean on 2024-12

Logistics • Consulting • Manufacturing

Sofar Ocean is a marine technology company that builds and operates a global network of ocean sensors and delivers real-time ocean data, analytics, and APIs. Its Spotter sensor buoys provide affordable, easy-to-deploy measurements (waves, currents, temperature, sound, water quality) for research and operations, while its Wayfinder platform is a SaaS voyage-optimization solution that uses high-accuracy marine weather forecasts and vessel performance models to reduce fuel use and emissions for maritime shipping.

📋 Description

• Develop maritime route optimization, vessel performance modeling, and voyage analysis capabilities • Refine optimization algorithms • Translate vessel performance and fuel-consumption models into software • Build simulation and evaluation tooling • Improve how route recommendations are scored and explained • Work on maritime voyage optimization and route evaluation • Model vessel performance and fuel consumption across operating and environmental conditions • Address voyage constraints, transit time, fuel efficiency, and operational considerations • Develop optimization algorithms and supporting software • Build simulation and evaluation capabilities to assess optimizer behavior and route quality • Produce clear, explainable optimization recommendations • Collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime domain specialists • Contribute to existing Sofar technology and new software for government maritime applications • Work across Rust and Python on algorithms, models, services, APIs, testing, and related software components

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required for this position • Must be able to successfully pass a background check • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience contributing to production software • Experience with Python and/or a compiled language such as Rust, C++, C, or similar • Comfortable working with algorithms, data structures, and computational problems • Ability to translate domain or mathematical concepts into maintainable, testable software • Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset when working across engineering and domain disciplines • Comfortable working on software supporting U.S. Government and Department of Defense customers