Seasats is looking to redefine the maritime industry by developing autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) that can carry sensors at sea for months at a time, providing persistent monitoring and data acquisition. The vehicle software team is critical to the successful operation of these ASVs, whether navigating through harbors or operating with limited communication hundreds of miles offshore. The Senior Vehicle Software Engineer will help integrate all onboard subsystems into a cohesive whole, creating and integrating the software that drives the ASVs.
Requirements
- Fluency in Python
- Strong proficiency in C++
- Experience integrating a variety of sensor data in autonomous systems (ex. IMU, GPS, RADAR, LiDAR, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience designing software architectures and algorithms for systems with tight resource limits
- Proficiency working in Linux environments
- Experience with messaging/middleware frameworks (ex. MQTT, ZeroMQ, ROS)
- Familiarity with common sensor communication protocols (ex. RS-232, RS-485, TCP/IP, NMEA-2000, CAN, I2C, SPI)
Responsibilities
- creating and integrating the software that drives our ASVs - from integrating new sensors and payloads, to developing new navigation algorithms, to building robust communications pipelines, to optimizing power management.
- writing low-level drivers to implementing higher-level decision-making logic.
- help set the technical direction of the team
- Design, implement, and test new features to make our boats smarter, more robust, and easier to use.
- Develop and validate new autonomy algorithms to safely guide our boats through channels and across oceans.
- Work hands-on to integrate new sensors and payloads.
- Continuously add to and improve our automated test suite, tooling, and health checks.
Other
- 6+ years of professional software industry experience, with 3+ years developing embedded software
- Excellent leadership, collaboration, and teamwork skills, with a side of humility
- mentoring teammates and collaborating to shape the team's technical path.
- Support vehicle checkout, testing, troubleshooting, and demonstrations by making trips to our local launch points with a laptop to provide hands-on support.
- candidates must be independently authorized to work in the United States.
