Bedrock Ocean Exploration is a platform for underwater vehicles. Their technology allows for the collection of seafloor data and makes ocean mapping safer, with minimal environmental impact, risk of endangered animal takes, and infrastructure damage. Backed by Eniac Ventures.
About the role
The Staff Robotics Engineer sets the technical direction for autonomy and vehicle software across our growing fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles. You operate a level above any single subsystem, owning the architecture that ties together onboard software, GNC and state estimation, sensing, and mission autonomy so vehicles run reliably for long, continuous missions. You're the engineer the robotics team turns to when a problem spans disciplines and is genuinely hard.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years building robotics or autonomous-systems software, including at least 5–7 years in a commercial, production robotics environment shipping at scale, plus staff-level technical leadership across subsystems or teams
- Deep experience architecting vehicle or autonomy software that stayed robust, modular, and scalable as it grew, with interfaces that held up through real change
- Strong fundamentals in C++ and/or Python, and hands-on experience with ROS or ROS 2 on real hardware
- Depth in one or more of GNC, state estimation, sensor fusion, or mission autonomy, with breadth across the rest
- A track record building fault detection and recovery (FDIR), health monitoring, or safe-state behaviors into systems that must run unattended and recover on their own
- Experience standardizing and safely deploying software across a fleet of vehicles or embedded devices, including over-the-air updates, versioning, and rollback
More about this role
Bedrock Ocean builds and operates autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that collect georeferenced ocean-floor data at commercial scale. We deliver bathymetric and imagery data products to customers through our own platform, and we're scaling toward continuous, around-the-clock data collection campaigns spanning months at a time. Making an autonomous vehicle reliably do the right thing at the bottom of the ocean is the hardest problem we have, and this role sets the technical direction for it.
Headquartered in Richmond, California, Bedrock Ocean Exploration is building autonomous ocean intelligence that will enable the ocean economy to solve the world's most pressing challenges in maritime security, infrastructure, energy, and climate. Our modular architecture, driven by the autonomous underwater vehicles, Trident (command and control), and Mosaic (subsea data fusion), delivers entirely new intelligence capabilities for government and commercial partners. Missions mobilize from any vessel of opportunity in 24 to 72 hours, and our automated pipeline returns comprehensive insights in hours, not weeks like the incumbents, keeping crews safe on shore while cutting cost and time.
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