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

- **Company:** Zydro Marine Technologies
- **Location:** Newton, MA
- **Compensation:** $130k–$190k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zydro/c11aaf1f-e568-49aa-831a-b9b284bf3a3a

## 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 Robotics Software Engineer to help develop a new platform for automated maritime survey and ISR data collection. In this role, you will design, build, integrate, and test software and hardware systems on unmanned maritime platforms.

We’re looking for a generalist robotics engineer with strong software fundamentals, hands-on hardware integration experience, and solid systems engineering skillset. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building real-world robotic systems that operate in challenging, unstructured environments outside the lab.

## What You'll Do

- Design, develop and test software for unmanned maritime robotic systems
- Develop and maintain autonomy software using frameworks such as ROS or MOOS-IvP
- Interface with lower-level flight controllers such as ArduPilot or PX4
- Develop and tune vehicle guidance, navigation & control algorithms
- Integrate sensors, payloads, compute, networking, and actuators
- Develop software interfaces to devices using CAN-bus, NMEA 2000, J1939, MAVLink, etc.
- Develop algorithms for simultaneous localization & mapping (SLAM) and multi-target tracking
- Build tools for system diagnostics, logging, monitoring, replay, and post-mission analysis
- Debug complex software and system integration issues in both lab and field environments
- Deploy to the field to support field testing and iterative product development
- Collaborate with a larger team to design a unified hardware and software architecture

Required Qualifications

- 3–5+ years of professional software development or robotics engineering experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or similar software or engineering background.
- Programming experience in C++, Python, Rust, or similar systems-oriented languages
- Strong familiarity with Linux-based systems and command-line tools
- Experience integrating hardware, sensors, and embedded devices into production systems
- Experience with vehicle and embedded communications protocols such as CAN, NMEA 2000, J1939, MAVLink, serial, or Ethernet
- Familiarity with robotics frameworks such as ROS, ROS 2, MOOS-IvP, ArduPilot, or similar
- Comfortable working across software, electrical, mechanical, and operational disciplines
- Experience using Git and modern software development workflows

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with maritime robotics or autonomous vehicle systems
- Experience deploying robotic systems in field environments
- Experience with embedded Linux, RTOS-based systems, or firmware development
- Experience integrating navigation, perception, or mission sensors
- Experience with simulation, automated testing, or hardware-in-the-loop testing
- Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD, and deployment workflows
- Ability to read electrical schematics and troubleshoot hardware systems
- Basic CAD or mechanical design experience
- Comfortable supporting field operations and testing on a boat; able and willing to travel

## 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)

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