About Us
Zydro Marine Technologies is a venture-backed startup creating "The Geospatial Toolkit for Maritime". We're building the end-to-end ecosystem to collect, process & distribute nautical charts and other geospatial products for mission-critical usage across maritime autonomy, fleet management, and navigation.
We're a team of experts in geospatial data, robotics, command & control software, IoT, and marine robotics, and we're looking for talented, driven candidates to join us.
We’re growing, and looking for talented, driven engineers with an interest in the maritime domain! If you love building beautiful maps, wrangling data sources, developing & testing unmanned systems, or hanging out on boats... this is the job for you.
The Role
We’re hiring a Geospatial Software Engineer to help develop the core geospatial software powering Vector Charts and future maritime mapping & perception products. You’ll work on systems for geospatial data processing, web data visualization, sensor processing, and APIs.
This role involves close collaboration with engineers working across cloud infrastructure, geospatial data, robotics, autonomy, and user interfaces. We’re looking for someone who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical GIS knowledge and a good eye for cartography and map design.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop & deploy full-stack product infrastructure for geospatial data ingestion, processing, visualization & delivery
- Implement cloud-based architecture for hosting large-scale APIs-as-a-Service
- Design symbology and theming for map visualization layers
- Work to integrate a-priori and realtime maritime data such as S-57/S-100 charts, sonar and acoustic sensor data
- Collaborate with the larger Zydro engineering team to build out our roadmap for bathymetry processing & visualization
Required Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of shipping complex, full-stack applications.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with industry-standard GIS tools and databases (eg. GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS)
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C++, Rust, Go, etc)
- Experience with the use of SQL
- Familiarity with Linux-based operating systems & command-line usage
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient with React, HTML, CSS and other web development technologies
- Understanding of 3D graphics rendering fundamentals
- Experience in Docker, Git, any CI/CD tool, and software development testing & deployment
- Domain knowledge working with sonar, LIDAR, RADAR or other maritime sensors
- Experience in the maritime domain (Operating on boats!)
- Experience with Mapbox GL and Mapbox Vector Tiles
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
- A passion for great map design & visualization
Skills Required
- 3-5+ years of professional software development experience with a proven track record of shipping complex, full-stack applications.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with industry-standard GIS tools and databases (GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS).
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C++, Rust, Go).
- Experience with the use of SQL.
- Familiarity with Linux-based operating systems and command-line usage.
- Proficient with React, HTML, CSS and other web development technologies.
- Understanding of 3D graphics rendering fundamentals.
- Experience in Docker, Git, CI/CD tools, and software development testing and deployment.
- Domain knowledge working with sonar, LIDAR, RADAR or other maritime sensors.
- Experience in the maritime domain (operating on boats).
- Experience with Mapbox GL and Mapbox Vector Tiles.
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
- A passion for great map design and visualization.
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!
