Saildrone

Open 124d HybridNorth AmericaStaff

Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning

AI Business Development CI/CD Cloud Computer Vision +12 skills

A senior ML engineer builds and deploys perception and autonomy models for autonomous maritime drones, running inference on edge hardware and optimizing pipelines for real-time, mission-critical operations.

215K – 270K $

Open 124d HybridNorth AmericaStaff

Staff Software Engineer, Perception

Business Development Computer Vision C++ Deep Learning GPU +3 skills

Designs and deploys real-time vessel detection and tracking systems for autonomous maritime drones, using C++, GPU-accelerated edge computing, and multi-sensor fusion.

215K – 270K $

Open 36d North AmericaPrincipal

Principal Software Engineer, Perception

Business Development Computer Vision Machine Learning Sensor Fusion

Hands-on principal-level technical lead who defines the architecture and technical direction of perception systems — sensor fusion, probabilistic estimation, localization, tracking, and ML — for Saildrone's autonomous unmanned surface vehicles used in maritime defense, turning research into production software deployed on real vehicles.

300K – 380K $

Perception Machine Learning Engineer

Open 33d North America

Business Development Computer Vision C++ CUDA Machine Learning +5 skills

Builds and deploys machine-learning perception (computer vision) systems for Saildrone's autonomous unmanned surface vehicles — training, evaluating, and productionizing models from real-world sensor data for detection, classification, segmentation, and scene understanding. Core stack: Python and PyTorch, with C++, edge deployment, and inference optimization (ONNX/TensorRT/CUDA) as pluses.

14K – 323K $

Software Engineer, Geometric Computer Vision

Open 33d North America

Business Development Computer Vision C++

Saildrone, a maritime defense company building autonomous unmanned surface vehicles, is hiring a computer vision engineer to develop geometric vision systems in C++ — camera calibration, multi-camera tracking, and estimation of motion, depth, and 3D structure — deployed on real autonomous vehicles at its Alameda, CA headquarters.

14K – 323K $