Company
Saildrone
Annual salary
$210k – $300k/yr
Location
Alameda, CA
Listed
3d ago
- Experience:
- 5+ years
- Workplace:
- Hybrid in Alameda, CA, 3 days per week in office. Saildrone's HQ is located on the waterfront in Alameda with direct access to the lagoon where vessels are launched and tested. Teams generally follow a 3 days in-office / 2 days remote schedule.
- Equity:
- <p>Competitive equity grants are included as a <strong>core part of the compensation package</strong>. Saildrone views equity as shared ownership in the mission, allowing you to participate in the long-term value you help create. Equity details are discussed during the offer stage and vary by level.</p>
Hybrid in Alameda, CA.
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What you'll do
- Design, implement, and deploy production autonomy software in C++ that runs onboard Saildrone's autonomous maritime vehicles
- Develop and integrate algorithms for autonomous perception, localization, planning, navigation, decision-making, and collision/terrain avoidance
- Contribute to sensor fusion work, integrating radar, camera, and other sensor modalities into a unified data stream for situational awareness and path planning
- Build and maintain local and global planners that consume map data and sensor data to determine optimal routes and vehicle behavior
- Evaluate algorithmic approaches and make practical tradeoffs among accuracy, robustness, computational cost, latency, and reliability on constrained onboard compute (Nvidia Jetson)
- Use simulation, testing, telemetry, and real-world vehicle data to validate autonomous behavior and diagnose failures, including building your own tooling (often in Python) to accelerate the development cycle
- Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Saildrone's next-generation autonomy stack as part of a multi-year roadmap to expand autonomous capabilities
What you need
- We need a software engineer with 5+ years of experience in autonomous systems or robotics who has strong C++ skills and hands-on experience developing autonomy software that runs on real vehicles. You should be comfortable working across the autonomy stack, perception, localization, planning, decision-making, and vehicle behavior, and have a track record of shipping production-quality algorithms on physical hardware. Bonus points if you've worked in autonomous driving, aerospace, defense, or maritime systems.
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What does this Saildrone role pay? +
The listing gives $210k – $300k/yr.
Is this role remote? +
The listing gives the location as Alameda, CA. Hybrid in Alameda, CA, 3 days per week in office. Saildrone's HQ is located on the waterfront in Alameda with direct access to the lagoon where vessels are launched and tested. Teams generally follow a 3 days in-office / 2 days remote schedule.
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