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Sofar Ocean is building the world's largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors and ocean intelligence capabilities. This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on maritime route optimization, vessel performance modeling, and voyage analysis for U.S. Government and Department of Defense customers.
You'll work on hands-on software engineering problems including maritime voyage optimization and route evaluation, vessel performance and fuel-consumption modeling across varying operating and environmental conditions, optimization algorithms and supporting software, simulation and evaluation capabilities, and clear, explainable results for route recommendations.
The role involves balancing competing considerations: fuel consumption, transit time, vessel performance, environmental conditions, voyage constraints, and operational needs. You'll collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime domain specialists to translate real-world problems into practical software solutions.
The optimization, modeling, and simulation software stack includes Rust and Python. You may work across both high- and low-level languages while contributing to algorithms, models, services, APIs, testing, and related software components.
Required: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, strong fundamentals in production software, proficiency with Python and/or compiled languages (Rust, C++, C), comfort with algorithms and computational problems, ability to translate domain/mathematical concepts into maintainable software, strong communication and collaborative skills, and comfort supporting U.S. Government and DoD customers. U.S. citizenship and ability to pass background check required.
Relevant experience may come from robotics, logistics, aerospace, autonomy, transportation, scientific computing, operations research, simulation, or other domains involving optimization of physical systems. Maritime experience is not required. Bonus qualifications include physics or related technical degree, optimization/modeling/simulation software development experience, maritime/naval domain knowledge, prior DoD customer support, and passion for oceans.
