Seasats
Role: Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) Pilot
Location: San Diego, CA (in-office)
Typical working hours: 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM, with occasional requirement for night shifts to support customer and testing operations
Salary Range: $75,000-$100,000 + stock options, 401k matching, relocation assistance within the U.S. (if applicable), and other benefits
Role Overview:
Seasats operates a growing fleet of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) in real-world testing and customer environments. To support ongoing development, validation, and operations, we're hiring an ASV Pilot to remotely operate, monitor, and support these vehicles during daily missions.
This is primarily an in-office, computer-based role. In this role, you'll be responsible for piloting ASVs through our control interface, monitoring vehicle health and mission progress in real time, and supporting testing and customer operations as they happen. Your judgment and attention directly impact vehicle safety, mission success, and how our systems evolve.
Role Details:
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
Work Environment:
About You:
You're someone who is comfortable spending long stretches monitoring systems, making decisions based on incomplete information, and staying level-headed when things go wrong. You enjoy working with technology, following procedures, and being a key part of real-world operations.
You'll need to be:
In addition, it's nice (though not essential) if you have:
About Seasats:
At Seasats, we're passionate about delivering maritime robotics solutions to redefine the maritime industry. Our primary products are autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs), designed to carry sensors at sea for months at a time. Our ASVs provide persistent monitoring and data acquisition to defense, scientific, and commercial customers, and have autonomously crossed both the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. After thousands of years in which the only way to gather information from the ocean was to put people on a boat, these uncrewed vessels are transforming how humanity monitors and interacts with the ocean. Here, you'll find the space and opportunity to do your life's best work.
Along with your salary, you'll receive perks including:
Hiring Notes:
When applying, you'll be asked to provide a resume and answer a few screening questions.
Please note that we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas, so candidates must be independently authorized to work in the United States.
We appreciate diverse perspectives and life experiences, and we're committed to building a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds. Seasats provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination of any type based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law.
We look forward to reviewing your application!