Senior Software Engineer – Maritime Optimization

🕒 September 3

🇺🇸 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

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Logistics • Consulting • Manufacturing

Sofar Ocean is a company that specializes in unlocking ocean data for science, society, and industry. They offer the Wayfinder voyage optimization platform, which uses high-accuracy ocean weather forecasts to reduce fuel and emissions for maritime shipping. Similarly, their Spotter Platform is an extensible ocean sensing system that accelerates marine research and supports sustainable commercial solutions. Sofar Ocean's network of marine weather sensors, the largest privately-owned in the world, provides real-time ocean data, enabling better decision-making for their clients and contributing to environmental sustainability in maritime operations.

📋 Description

• Develop maritime route optimization, vessel performance modeling, and voyage analysis capabilities • Refine optimization algorithms and 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 varying operating and environmental conditions • Address voyage constraints, transit time, fuel efficiency, and operational considerations • Contribute to algorithms, models, simulation capabilities, services, APIs, testing, and related software components in Rust and Python • Collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime domain specialists • Support existing Sofar technology and new software for government maritime applications • Produce useful, understandable, and defensible optimization recommendations

🎯 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

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