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title: 'Geospatial Software Engineer at Zydro Marine Technologies'
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# Geospatial Software Engineer at Zydro Marine Technologies

- **Company:** Zydro Marine Technologies
- **Location:** Newton, MA
- **Compensation:** $130k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zydro/e68b9819-f7ff-4e0d-815a-9223cd119b1f

## Job description

## About Us

Zydro Marine Technologies is a venture-backed startup creating "The Geospatial Toolkit for Maritime". We're building the end-to-end ecosystem to collect, process & distribute nautical charts and other geospatial products for mission-critical usage across maritime autonomy, fleet management, and navigation applications.

We're a growing team of experts in geospatial data, marine robotics, and command & control software, and we're looking for talented, driven candidates to join us! If you love building beautiful maps, wrangling data sources, developing & testing unmanned systems, or hanging out on boats... this is the job for you.

## The Role

We’re hiring a Geospatial Software Engineer to help develop the core geospatial software powering Vector Charts and future maritime mapping & perception products. You’ll work on systems for geospatial data processing, web data visualization, sensor processing, and APIs.

This role involves close collaboration with engineers working across cloud infrastructure, geospatial data, robotics, autonomy, and user interfaces. We’re looking for someone who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical GIS knowledge and a good eye for cartography and map design.

## What You'll Do

- Design, develop & deploy full-stack product infrastructure for geospatial data ingestion, processing, visualization & delivery
- Implement cloud-based architecture for hosting large-scale APIs-as-a-Service
- Design symbology and theming for map visualization layers
- Work to integrate a-priori and realtime maritime data such as S-57/S-100 charts, sonar and acoustic sensor data
- Collaborate with the larger Zydro engineering team to build out our roadmap for bathymetry processing & visualization

Required Qualifications

- 3-5+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of shipping complex, full-stack applications.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with industry-standard GIS tools and databases (eg. GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS)
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C++, Rust, Go, etc)
- Experience with the use of SQL
- Familiarity with Linux-based operating systems & command-line usage

## Preferred Qualifications

- Proficient with React, HTML, CSS and other web development technologies
- Understanding of 3D graphics rendering fundamentals
- Experience in Docker, Git, any CI/CD tool, and software development testing & deployment
- Domain knowledge working with sonar, LIDAR, RADAR or other maritime sensors
- Experience in the maritime domain (Operating on boats!)
- Experience with Mapbox GL and Mapbox Vector Tiles
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
- A passion for great map design & visualization

## About Zydro Marine Technologies

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Zydro Marine Technologies builds an open ecosystem of hardware and software tools for maritime geospatial data collection, autonomy, and mission planning, enabling cheaper and safer unmanned ocean exploration.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no funding rounds disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Nate Conroy (Founder & CEO per company site) and Chris Dalke (Founder & CEO per LinkedIn) – conflicting reports; both names are cited.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Robotics Engineering / Maritime Technology / Geospatial Data
- **Target customers**: B2B – surveyors, researchers, operators, product developers, USV companies, defense contractors, and offshore energy firms.
- **Mission**: “Helping humans and robots explore the ocean” by lowering the cost and complexity of data collection with advanced software and hardware.

## Products & Services
- **Zydro Data Platform**: A suite of high-fidelity geospatial products including traffic patterns, currents & tides, elevation, imagery, magnetometer data, and nautical charts – delivered via APIs.
- **Zeus – Maritime C2 & Visualization**: Multi-vehicle command and control software for unmanned maritime systems.
- **Robotic Data Collection (Rent the Fleet)**: A fleet of unmanned data collection systems (USVs, AUVs) that can be hired for rapid, high-resolution local data acquisition.
- **Custom Engineering**: Tailored hardware and software engineering services for USV and maritime projects.
- **Geospatial APIs**: APIs to integrate ocean intelligence (traffic density, anomaly detection, hyperlocal current/tide prediction) into third-party products.
- **Data Storage & Processing**: Cloud-based storage and processing for maritime sensor data.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – not publicly available (appears bootstrapped)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None disclosed
- **Growth Signals**: Very early stage (founded 2025, 3 employees); active hiring for a Geospatial Software Engineer; LinkedIn followers 474 (+2.8% monthly); 790 monthly website visits.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open ecosystem**: Unlike proprietary systems, Zydro offers an open toolkit that integrates with existing USV platforms, lowering vendor lock-in.
- **Deep domain expertise**: Team of experienced roboticists, hackers, and operators who have spent years building and operating USVs and AUVs.
- **Cost reduction**: Focus on making unmanned systems affordable and reliable – a key barrier to adoption in maritime.
- **Full-stack offering**: Combines hardware (robotic fleet) with software (C2, APIs, data processing) for a complete solution.

## Strategic Focus
- Enable large-scale ocean exploration and defense by making unmanned systems easier to build and operate.
- Target climate/weather research, offshore energy, and defense applications.
- Grow the software platform and API ecosystem while expanding the fleet of unmanned vehicles.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: Work on “Earth’s final frontier” – ocean exploration, climate research, and national security.
- **Small, hands-on team**: 3 employees currently – opportunity for significant impact and ownership.
- **In-office culture**: Based in Newton, MA (Greater Boston) – in-office workspace (not remote).
- **Technical stack**: Robotics, geospatial data, IoT, autonomy, cloud infrastructure – ideal for engineers passionate about marine technology.
- **Recent hiring**: Active job posting for Geospatial Software Engineer and open-ended applications, indicating growth.

## Sources
1. [zydromarine.com](https://zydromarine.com/)
2. [zydromarine.com/about-us](https://zydromarine.com/about-us)
3. [linkedin.com/company/zydro](https://www.linkedin.com/company/zydro)
4. [builtin.com/company/zydro-marine-technologies](https://builtin.com/company/zydro-marine-technologies)
5. [builtin.com/company/zydro-marine-technologies/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/zydro-marine-technologies/jobs)

## Other roles at Zydro Marine Technologies

- [Robotics Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/robotics-software-engineer-zydro-marine-technologies-newton-6x5gjwfrmjxk) — Newton, MA
- [Open-Ended Application](https://feeny.ai/job/open-ended-application-zydro-marine-technologies-newton-ffj45nm55xxd) — Newton, MA