Software Engineer

Sofar Ocean • San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

We are looking for a product-driven software engineer to join our team as we scale our groundbreaking Wayfinder weather routing service for the maritime transport industry. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their career who is eager to learn, grow and make a real impact. In this position you will help design, develop, and maintain services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine – an optimal ship-routing tool that combines weather data with ship performance models and user-specified constraints to find the most efficient routes across the worlds' oceans, saving fuel, emissions and reducing risk.
You’ll need 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 be 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 and will be collaborating with engineers to deliver end-end features to users. You’re excited to learn new domains & technologies when needed and are a strong communicator with other engineers and non-technical team members.

Requirements

• Deeply committed to building a product with a positive impact on the world.
• Passionate about the craft of software engineering.
• Curious and experimental in the face of rapid tech change like LLM’s.
• Enthusiastically leverages agentic programming techniques.
• Exposure to Rust, C++, C (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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine.
• Translate unique user needs into high-quality software.
• Make internal workflows more efficient.
• Improve core algorithms to drive top-line optimization metrics.
• Roll out new features.
• Collaborate with engineers to deliver end-to-end features to users.

Benefits

• Equity package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed