Ocean Career: SoFar Ocean Software Engineer

Software Engineer

You'll develop a deep understanding of our customers, their workflows, and critical data they need to operate. You will collaborate with a top-notch team of engineers, ocean scientists and product designers to translate these unique user needs into high quality software that helps users and saves carbon. You'll spend a lot of time making internal workflows more efficient, improving core algorithms to drive top-line optimization metrics, and rolling out new features which delight our clients.

You'll primarily be working on our routing optimization system, which is written in Rust with some elements in Python. You should be comfortable working with both high- and low-level languages. You will be collaborating with engineers to deliver end-to-end features to users.

• Deeply committed to building a product with a positive impact on the world
• Passionate about the craft of software engineering. Loves making beautiful, functional interfaces for humans and maintainable, extendable interfaces for systems.
• Curious and experimental in the face of rapid tech change like LLM's
• Enthusiastically leverages agentic programming techniques
• Exposure to Rust, C++, C, or other compiled, non-garbage-collected language
• Clear communicator who enjoys collaborating with other engineers, designers, PMs, and scientists
• Can rapidly acquire new technical skills and knowledge in a fast-paced, high-delivery environment
• Excited to be a part of a small but growing startup team
• Understands the realities of startup life and is energized by the pace, ambiguity, and hands-on nature of a small but growing team.

• Coursework or equivalent in optimization problems and controls systems
• Coursework or equivalent background in physics

Estimated Salary Range: $100,000 – $139,000

Location:

San Francisco, CA