Software Engineer at Sofar Ocean in San Francisco, CA

Summary: Sofar Ocean is seeking a product-driven software engineer to join their team as they scale their Wayfinder weather routing service for the maritime transport industry. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine, collaborating with a team to create high-quality software that improves user experience and reduces environmental impact. Responsibilities: - Help design, develop, and maintain services in the Wayfinder Optimization Engine - Collaborate with a team of engineers, ocean scientists, and product designers to translate user needs into software - Improve internal workflows and core algorithms to drive optimization metrics - Roll out new features for users Required Qualifications: - 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 (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 Preferred Qualifications: - Coursework or equivalent in optimization problems and controls systems - Coursework or equivalent background in physics Required Skills: Rust, Python, C++, C, Software Engineering, Optimization, Agentic Programming