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 124d HybridNorth AmericaFull-timeStaff

Staff Software Engineer, Security

Ansible Automation Business Development Cloud Cmmc +14 skills

Designs and operates security systems for autonomous maritime drones and shore infrastructure, including code reviews, incident response, and compliance audits in a hybrid onsite role.

189K – 243K $

Open 68d North AmericaLead

Manufacturing Systems Integration & Test Engineer

AI Automation Business Development LabVIEW Linux +4 skills

Senior engineer developing and executing testing protocols for autonomous surface vehicle production, including component validation, EOL testing, and troubleshooting. Uses Python, LabVIEW, and Linux to automate hardware and software integration in a defense environment.

145K – 170K $

Perception Machine Learning Engineer

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.

Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems

Business Development C++ Python

Saildrone is hiring a Software Engineer, Autonomous Systems in Alameda, CA, to build production autonomy software in C++ for its unmanned surface vehicles. The role spans perception, localization, planning, and decision-making algorithms, integrating them with sensors and hardware, and validating behavior via simulation, telemetry, and field testing.

Software Engineer, Cloud

API AWS Business Development Cloud Data Modeling +5 skills

Build and operate the cloud backend services that ingest, process, store, and expose sensor and operational data from Saildrone's autonomous ocean vessels. Day to day is backend/API development in Python and TypeScript, data modeling, and running reliable distributed services on AWS at the Alameda, CA site.

Software Engineer, Simulation & Evaluation

Automation Business Development CI/CD C++ Express.js +2 skills

Builds the simulation, replay, and evaluation infrastructure behind Saildrone's autonomous unmanned surface vehicles — turning recorded vehicle data and real-world failures into repeatable scenarios, quantitative metrics, and automated regression tests. Core stack is production C++ on Linux, with Python tooling as a plus.