Senior Software Engineer, Sofar Ocean
Routing Team
$155-180k
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, experience, and equity package
3-5 days a week in office
Ocean data monitoring
Open for applications
Ocean data monitoring
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$155-180k
Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, experience, and equity package
3-5 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect the world's oceans to the people who depend on them (all of us).
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about the opportunity to join a growing mission-driven startup to make a big positive impact on the world
- A great communicator with a collaborative mindset who thrives working cross discipline with other engineers, designers, product managers, and scientists
- 5+ years professional experience as a software engineer
- Proficient in a compiled, non-garbage-collected language (such as Rust, C++, C, etc.)
- Experience in Python or Typescript
Desirable
- Experience building software for optimization problems, pathfinding algorithms, and/or controls systems
- Experience working with modeling, numerical methods and/or data science applications
- Experience working with scaled application deployment and management
- A personal connection to or passion for the oceans
What the job involves
- We are looking for a product-driven software engineer to join our team as we scale and adapt our groundbreaking Wayfinder route optimization service for the maritime transport industry
- In this position you will design, develop, iterate, and maintain services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine – an optimal ship-routing service which includes:
- The generation of optimized routes in response to rapidly changing weather conditions and user-specified constraints to save fuel, emissions, and costs
- The modeling of ships to accurately predict the instantaneous fuel consumption and dynamics of maritime transport vessels across diverse weather scenarios
- The development of features and insights to help our maritime customers navigate the impacts of the complex decision-making required to move high value assets across the worlds’ oceans
- As our business is growing, we have a pressing need to scale our existing services, and simultaneously grow our scope to accommodate a wider range of customer needs
- On the Wayfinder Optimization Engine team, you’ll collaborate with a top-notch team of engineers, product experts, and ocean scientists to translate our maritime customers abstract problems into innovative software solutions
- You will spend your time automating human-intensive operational workflows related to providing routing services, evolving our core routing algorithms, adapting our core vessel performance modeling, scaling and constructing software infrastructure, and inventing data-driven insights to help our customers
- You will have tangible impact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by creating and scaling the technology which enables our customers to sail safe, emissions-reducing, cross-ocean routes
- Our tech stack is a task-based compute infrastructure housed on AWS, and a backend API server to provide our routing & modeling services to other web services in our product
- Our modeling, simulation, and optimization are all implemented in Rust
- Our web-handling and backend API are implemented in Python
- In this role, you will be working with both high- and low-level languages and will be collaborating with engineers who work in Typescript/React to deliver end-to-end features to users
Our take
Drastically changing weather and climate is one of the foremost issues of our time. And as we work to limit the impact of the climate crisis, we need trustworthy banks of data on how these changes have manifested, and what trajectory our world is on. This is where Solar Ocean comes in, with its global network of ocean-monitoring buoys.
It is the largest network of its kind, with thousands of solar-powered ‘spotters’ across the world’s oceans delivering over 200,000 updates every day. Its product is used primarily by climate scientists, but also has important applications in shipping, weather forecasting and maritime research as well.
Sofar is the largest network of its kind, and even though its spotters aren’t as sophisticated as similar government-funded ones, the sheer scale of its data collection makes its forecasts far more accurate. The funding it has raised is supporting the further extension of its network and development of its data services.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$39.4m
LATE VC
Nov 2021
$39m
SERIES B
Total funding: $85.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental plan
- Volunteering program
- Home office stipend
- Hybrid work schedule (for most roles)
- Flexible time off (including World Oceans Day!)
- A strong internal community of ocean-lovers!
Company values
- Oceans First: We have one planet. If we have to choose between more profit or better oceans, we choose the ocean
- Grab an Oar: We pride ourselves on being proactive, taking responsibility, and always making things better
- Team Wins: We can only accomplish this mission together. Respect and help others, always
- Challenge with Heart: Vocal but open to others’ ideas. Listen, discuss, and commit
- Ship for Impact: Build for the mission, be pragmatic, and move fast. Ocean health can’t wait
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Evan Shapiro
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Co-founded Bad Rabbit Consulting, Spoondrift and Knit Health. At Knit Health they were also CTO, and at Spoondrift they worked as a Technical Architect.
Tim Janssen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Assistant Professor of Oceanography at San Francisco State University. They were a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School, and also worked as an Independent Research Scientist and Principal Investigator.
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