Software Engineer, Ocean Robotics & Fleet Platform

Superorganism; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ulysses in San Francisco seeks a Software Engineer to own core platform components powering our fleet of autonomous underwater robots. You will work across services, infrastructure, and operator tooling to ensure reliability and observability at scale.

You will collaborate with robotics and perception engineers to harden existing systems and design what’s missing, leveraging Python, Linux, and containerized services to operate in challenging subsea environments with intermittent links.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Owned a software system end-to-end: architecture, testing, deployment, on-call.
• Built and maintained reliable software in the field over remote hardware and unreliable links.
• Strong Linux fluency; familiarity with distributed systems and containerized services.
• Able to collaborate with mechanical, electrical, firmware, and robotics engineers.
• Willing to travel internationally and domestically for field tests.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and ship software to a fleet of robots with safe rollouts.
• Build systems for monitoring, debugging, and remote access of robots from shore.
• Design high-bandwidth, low-latency communication over intermittent subsea links.
• Expand simulation and testing infrastructure to validate changes without water tests.
• Develop dashboards and mission-planning interfaces used by operators and customers.
• Field test deployments in locations like Australia, the EU, and the USA.

Skills

Production software

Linux

Distributed systems

Field testing

Software deployment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng

Tools

Python

Pydantic

NATS

WebSockets

Docker

NiceGUI

GStreamer

MCAP

Linux

Job description

Ulysses in San Francisco seeks a Software Engineer to own core platform components powering our fleet of autonomous underwater robots. You will work across services, infrastructure, and operator tooling to ensure reliability and observability at scale.

You will collaborate with robotics and perception engineers to harden existing systems and design what’s missing, leveraging Python, Linux, and containerized services to operate in challenging subsea environments with intermittent links.