Senior Vehicle Communications & Network Engineer
About The Position
Seasats builds autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) that deliver persistent maritime intelligence for defense, scientific, and commercial customers. As a Senior Communications & Network Engineer, you’ll own the end-to-end communications architecture that connects Seasats’ autonomous surface vehicles to operators, satellites, and each other. You will design, test, harden, and scale communications for real-world operations across cellular, satellite, and radio links. You’ll also spend hands-on time supporting vehicle tests and customer payload integrations. Whether vehicles are operating near land or hundreds of miles offshore, reliable communications are critical to mission success. You’ll report to our CTO and collaborate closely with the vehicle software team to deliver robust, field-proven communications for autonomous missions.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in network engineering or a related discipline
- Strong networking fundamentals (routing, firewalling, VPNs), with hands-on experience configuring and debugging them in real deployments
- Experience administrating networks with distributed clients
- Hands-on experience with OpenWRT or similar embedded router platforms
- Experience designing and operating multi-WAN systems over unreliable links such as cellular, satellite, or long-range radio
- Excellent debugging and systems-level troubleshooting skills
- Comfort with bash scripting
Nice To Haves
- Experience with specific satellite or cellular modems, SIM management, or carrier integrations
- A robotics, autonomous systems, or vehicle networking background
- Experience with Python
Responsibilities
- Design and tune failover and prioritization between cellular, satellite, and IP radio links
- Integrate radios, modems, antennas, and networking hardware
- Iterate on and maintain versioned, repeatable router configurations for fleet deployment
- Work closely with vehicle software engineers to optimize telemetry, command, and video bandwidth usage over constrained or intermittent links
- Support customer payload networking, including VLAN design, routing policies, firewall rules, VPN access, and traffic isolation between systems
- Troubleshoot field connectivity issues using packet captures, routing analysis, and logs to diagnose issues during and after live vehicle operations
- Design secure remote access patterns for operators and customers
Benefits
- Competitive insurance (including a 99% employer-covered Gold HMO plan or other options)
- 401k matching up to 4% of salary
- Four free lunches per week
- An employee activity fund
- A pet-friendly office
- Unlimited/Flex PTO
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
