About Us
Zydro Marine Technologies is a venture-backed startup creating "Building Blocks for Trusted Autonomy at Sea" - An ecosystem of software & hardware components for marine autonomy.
Our mission is to empower the next generation of ocean explorers with foundational tools to build and deploy mission-capable unmanned systems.
We're a team of experts in robotics, command & control software, IoT, and marine electronics, and we partner with boatbuilders & government customers to solve hard problems at sea. We’re growing, and looking for talented, driven engineers with an interest in the maritime domain!
About The Role
We’re hiring a Robotics Software Developer to lead development of onboard marine autonomy software used on unmanned surface vessels. You’ll be responsible for architecting and implementing a ROS-based autonomy stack that integrates navigation, perception & control systems into a robust, modular platform deployed across diverse vessel types.
Responsibilities
Work closely with your team & pilot customers to define requirements & project scope.
Design, implement, and maintain core autonomy software components using ROS 2 (C++/Python)
Integrate and test control interfaces for propulsion, steering, and sensing systems using CAN bus, NMEA 2000, UMAA and other industry standards protocols and specs.
Work with simulation, mission planning, and hardware-in-the-loop testing frameworks to validate the safety and reliability of autonomy behaviors.
Contribute to control algorithms for waypoint navigation and dynamic obstacle avoidance.
Participate in sea trials to support testing of unmanned surface vessels.
Required Qualifications
Experience with C, C++ and/or Python
Competency in a Linux-based environment
Understanding of the IP networking stack, TCP/UDP, etc.
Familiarity with ROS or other robotics middleware
Experience with Git, Docker, CI/CD tools, and other software development & deployment tools
Preferred Qualifications
Experience deploying code in IoT or robotics to constrained edge environments
Experience with CAN Bus, SPI, I2C, or other embedded communication protocols.
Hands-on experience with autonomy, path planning, or controls for mobile robots such as USVs or AUVs.
Comfortable working with sensors such as GPS, IMUs, radar, cameras, etc.
Top Skills
What We Do
Our mission is to unlock large-scale exploration & defense of the ocean by making it radically easier to build mission-capable ocean robots.
The ocean is earth's final frontier, and there is immense strategic value in our nation's ability to effectively explore & defend the ocean. Unmanned systems promise to unlock new access to the ocean, but they were previously too expensive and unreliable to build.
To solve this, we build an open hardware & software ecosystem for maritime geospatial data, autonomy, and mission planning. Our components embed into Unmanned Surface Vessel and maritime-related projects, lowering cost & time-to-market.
We're a team of experts in robotics, command & control software, IoT, and marine electronics, and we're looking for talented, driven candidates with an interest in the maritime domain to join us!
