Staff Software Engineer, Vessel Performance Modeling @ Sofar Ocean

The Company Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future. The Role You will be responsible for developing on our vessel performance modeling system designed to scalably model a full diversity of real world vessels at scale with our blend of physics-based principles with data-driven techniques. You will be partnering with our existing team of data scientists and software engineers directly improving our understanding of how vessels interact with the ocean environment, enabling decarbonization, cost savings, and safer maritime navigation. Impact You’ll Own: Architect and engineer robust, scalable systems for modeling vessel performance under real-world conditions, including hydrodynamics, engine characteristics, weather impacts, and operational constraints. Set technical strategy and modeling direction in collaboration with Product teams to meaningfully impact our customers daily operations. Lead the development of hybrid models that combine physical simulation with machine learning and observational data from ships and sensors. Ensure models are well-tested, explainable, and production-ready, enabling reliable integration into customer-facing applications and APIs. Mentor team members and establish best practices for the balance of physical modeling, numerical methods, product scope and system reliability. About You 10+ years of experience building production-grade modeling or simulation systems utilizing a hybrid of physics and data methods. Strong programming skills in Python and a system level language such as C++ or Rust. Track record of designing and owning large-scale modeling pipelines, preferably in real-world noisy… Apply To This Job