Senior Software Engineer — Maritime Optimization
Sofar Ocean2 hours ago
Base Salary
$140k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop software for maritime voyage optimization and route evaluation.
- Model vessel performance and fuel consumption across varying operating and environmental conditions.
- Refine optimization algorithms and implement software supporting them.
- Build simulation and evaluation capabilities to assess optimizer behavior and route quality.
- Improve how route recommendations are scored, explained, and evaluated.
- Translate domain and mathematical concepts into maintainable, testable production software.
- Contribute to algorithms, models, services, APIs, testing, and related software components.
- Collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime domain specialists.
Requirements
- At least 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.
- Comfort 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.
- Comfort working on software supporting U.S. Government and Department of Defense customers.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Must be able to successfully pass a background check.
- Preferred qualifications include a degree in physics or a related technical field, optimization/modeling/simulation experience, maritime or naval experience, and prior U.S. Government or Department of Defense customer experience.
About Sofar Ocean
Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, Sofar Ocean builds a privately owned global network of marine weather sensors and an ocean-intelligence platform. It sells data feeds and forecast/decision-support services used by commercial shipping, scientists, and government agencies to improve voyage planning and understand ocean conditions. The company operates the world’s largest real-time ocean sensor network and is privately held.