Senior Software Engineer — Maritime Optimization

Maritime route optimization means balancing competing considerations: fuel consumption, transit time, vessel performance, environmental conditions, voyage constraints, and operational needs.

You’ll collaborate with engineers, product experts, and maritime domain specialists to translate those real-world problems into practical software solutions.

Your work will focus on the core engineering behind voyage analysis and optimization — improving models, algorithms, simulation capabilities, and the software that connects them — with the goal of producing recommendations that are useful, understandable, and defensible.

Our optimization, modeling, and simulation software includes Rust and Python . You may work across both high- and low-level languages while contributing to algorithms, models, services, APIs, testing, and related software components.

This position supports U.S. Department of Defense customers. Candidates should be comfortable working on technology used in defense and military applications. Previous defense experience is not required.

U.S. citizenship is required for this position

Must be able to successfully pass a background check

We don’t expect candidates to arrive with maritime route optimization experience.

Relevant experience may come from robotics, logistics, aerospace, autonomy, transportation, scientific computing, operations research, simulation, or other domains involving optimization of physical systems.

What matters is your ability to take complex real-world problems and translate them into software that can model, evaluate, and help solve them.

These are helpful, but not requirements:

A degree in physics or a related technical field

Experience developing optimization, modeling, or simulation software for real-world systems

Maritime or naval domain experience

Previous experience supporting U.S. Government or Department of Defense customers

A personal connection to or passion for the oceans!

We know great candidates don’t always check every box. If this role interests you and you believe your experience translates well to the problems we’re working on, we encourage you to apply.