About Bedrock Ocean

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.

We are building AI agents on Amazon Bedrock to support our ocean data, internal operations, and customer platform. This role owns that architecture.

(One note on names. Amazon Bedrock is the AWS service. Bedrock Ocean is us. They are unrelated, and we are aware it is confusing.)

The Role

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to lead our AI architecture. This role goes beyond building agents on existing platforms; you will create the infrastructure itself, including the orchestration layer, the data and retrieval pipeline, and the security model required to work with production data. You will also build the tools and abstractions that allow our engineering team to implement AI features independently.

This position combines software engineering, data engineering, and infrastructure operations. You will manage the full lifecycle of our Amazon Bedrock implementation, from initial data chunking to IAM access controls. While some of our data pipelines are already in place, they will require significant expansion, and others will need to be built from scratch.

Security is core to this role, not an afterthought. Because agents with tool access represent a new kind of system actor, you will define their operational boundaries, including what they can access, the actions they can perform autonomously, and the monitoring required to detect issues.

Our roadmap prioritizes internal engineering and operational systems first to ensure a fast feedback loop, followed by our ocean and survey data products. Customer-facing retrieval is the final, high-stakes phase. You will play a key role in defining this sequence. While you will not be responsible for the core data transport design (store-and-forward or hub-and-spoke), you will work closely with that team to ensure it meets our retrieval and data freshness requirements.

What You'll Do

Architect Agent Orchestration: Design the Amazon Bedrock integration, including agent and action group configuration, backend APIs, model access, throughput, and cross-environment deployment.
Manage Retrieval Data Plane: Own the end-to-end retrieval pipeline from ingestion and chunking to embedding and storage in Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. Focus on optimizing for index design, cost, and capacity.
Extend Data Pipelines: Adapt ingestion pipelines for internal knowledge, ocean data, and customer platforms, addressing challenges specific to geospatial and large-binary datasets.
Secure AI Infrastructure: Implement robust security including Bedrock Guardrails, VPC and PrivateLink network boundaries, least-privilege IAM, and audit trails to ensure data isolation.
Define Agent Governance: Build the mechanisms to enforce approval boundaries for autonomous actions, ensuring agents are safe and monitored.
Establish LLMOps & Observability: Implement comprehensive monitoring for tracing, tool calls, and retrieval performance, using CloudWatch and LLM-specific tools like Langfuse or Phoenix.
Build Evaluation Frameworks: Create the infrastructure to run automated evaluations, track results, and manage release gates for model accuracy.
Enable Engineering Productivity: Provide the team with abstraction layers, SDKs, and self-service environments that allow engineers to ship AI features independently.
Operational Excellence: Manage the environment as code across all stages, ensuring deployment safety and participating in incident reviews.

What We're Looking For

8+ years in software and infrastructure engineering, including deep production backend experience (Python or TypeScript preferred, Go fine) and staff-level ownership of technical direction.
Hands-on experience standing up Amazon Bedrock in production: agents, knowledge bases, guardrails, model access, and the throughput and quota decisions that come with them.
Containerized service deployment on ECS, EKS, or Lambda, with CI/CD you have owned rather than inherited. The models are managed, but the backend APIs, tool endpoints, and ingestion jobs still run somewhere real.
Practical RAG and vector search experience: embeddings, chunking strategies, semantic search quality, and operating a managed vector database (OpenSearch Serverless, Pinecone, pgvector, or similar) at production scale and cost.
Real data engineering: you have built or substantially extended ingestion pipelines over messy, heterogeneous, unstructured sources, and you think about freshness and correctness as SLAs rather than afterthoughts.
Strong AWS ecosystem expertise: IAM roles and least privilege for machine identities, VPC networking and PrivateLink, Lambda, S3, KMS, CloudWatch, and provisioning safely through infrastructure as code (Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation).
Production LLM exposure: you have moved LLM features or autonomous agents past the prototype stage into environments other people depend on.
A working point of view on securing agentic systems: scoping tool permissions, prompt injection and exfiltration risk, sensitive data handling in retrieval, and where a human belongs in the loop.
Experience designing developer-facing APIs, SDKs, or platform services with an API-first mindset. The interface is the product for the engineers who consume it.
Experience building and operating multi-tenant services, with isolation guarantees that hold when the data belongs to customers rather than to us.
Platform instinct: you build the abstraction other engineers stand on, and you measure yourself by what they ship rather than by what you ship directly.
Demonstrated technical leadership and system design judgment at staff level: you have driven an architectural direction across pods or teams you do not manage, and made it stick through influence rather than authority.
A pragmatic builder's bias. You reach for boring, fully managed infrastructure before complex self-hosted alternatives, and you can tell the difference between the two in an architecture review.
Comfort wearing several hats on a small team, and the discipline to write things down so the system runs without you.

Nice to Have

Experience deploying LLM evaluations to measure accuracy over time and treating eval results as a release gate.
Involvement in AI red-teaming or the AI security community.
Experience with GraphRAG or knowledge graphs.
Experience running retrieval over geospatial, scientific, or large-binary datasets.
Experience moving data across intermittent or unreliable links: store-and-forward, hub-and-spoke topologies, offload from disconnected or edge systems, and reconciliation once a link comes back.
Compliance experience such as SOC 2, or handling government or defense customer data.
Background supporting data platforms, autonomous systems, or field operations.

Not a Fit If

Your AI work has been prototypes and notebooks rather than systems other people depend on in production.
You want to be a model researcher, a prompt engineer, or to spend your time fine-tuning models. This role owns the platform underneath agents and partners closely with the people building them.
You treat security as a gate at the end of a project rather than something designed from the start.
You would rather self-host and build from scratch than adopt a managed service that already works. We are optimizing for a small team shipping, not for architectural purity.
You want a mature platform team and a narrow, well-bounded scope. This is an early build with a lot of surface area and few existing answers.

Why This Role Matters

At Bedrock Ocean, our mission is to make the ocean transparent. We are building more than just a survey service; we are creating a source of deep ocean intelligence that grows with every mission.

To realize this, we need to make our data accessible and actionable. This role is about building the infrastructure that allows our teams and eventually our customers to directly query and learn from our findings. Because this data is strategically sensitive, security is woven into the foundation of your work, not added on later.

Ultimately, an AI agent with access to our production data is a powerful tool, but it requires careful design to be a success. You will build a secure, reliable platform that ensures these systems empower our mission safely and effectively.

The base compensation for this role is expected to be $160,000- $220,000 annually plus equity.

Bedrock Ocean is an equal opportunity employer.

About the company

Bedrock Ocean Exploration provides marine surveying using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to map nearshore seafloor. It collects high-resolution data with tools like multi-beam and side-scan sonar and magnetometers, then manages and interprets that data to deliver detailed maps and insights for environmental groups, government agencies, and private marine operators. Its data-first approach and goal to publish a world-scale ocean map 50 times more detailed than current public maps set it apart, aiming to improve global ocean understanding. The company earns revenue by delivering comprehensive marine surveys and data interpretation, and expands capabilities through partnerships with Exail and NORBIT Subsea to reduce costs and risks.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series A

Total Funding

$58.5M

Headquarters

Richmond, California

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

Aug. 6, 2026 FMS hub expands Bedrock across the UK and Europe.
April 7, 2026 Bedrock cited major deployments and strong demand in Gulf of Mexico, UK, North Sea.
2026 Bedrock claims the largest private AUV fleet, lowering survey cost versus ship-based mapping.

What critics are saying

Bedrock depends on FMS Aberdeen and Integer integration; slipups delay 2026 customer deliveries.
Terradepth, Ocean Infinity, and Kraken Robotics attack seafloor mapping with better-funded platforms.
AUV hardware, defense procurement, or shallow-order volume gaps can starve Bedrock before scale.

What makes Bedrock Ocean Exploration unique

Aug. 6, 2026 FMS partnership localizes Bedrock AUV operations in Aberdeen.
June 16, 2026 Integer partnership bundles Bedrock sensors with mission assurance software for Navy/AUKUS.
April 7, 2026 Matthew Tirman joined from Satellogic to scale dual-use geospatial commercialization.

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PR Newswire

Aug 6th, 2026

Bedrock Ocean Exploration partners with First Marine Solutions to bring autonomous subsea survey tech to UK and Europe

Bedrock Ocean Exploration has partnered with First Marine Solutions to expand autonomous subsea survey capabilities across the UK and Europe. The multi-year agreement establishes a UK and European operational hub for Bedrock's autonomous ocean intelligence technology at FMS's Aberdeen headquarters. Under the partnership, Bedrock will station autonomous underwater vehicles at FMS's Aberdeen facility. Bedrock will provide data processing expertise and training for FMS personnel, enabling local operations and maintenance. FMS will supply operational infrastructure, including dedicated facilities, logistics support, marine consultancy services, and a team of trained survey engineers. The collaboration aims to deliver a vertically integrated solution for clients in offshore energy and subsea infrastructure, combining autonomous data acquisition with regional operational support and industry-leading survey capabilities.

TEI Times

Aug 6th, 2026

https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/bedrock-ocean-exploration-and-first-marine-solutions-announce-strategic-partnership-to-expand-autonomous-subsea-survey-capabilities-across-the-uk-and-europe-302844655.html. Bedrock Ocean Exploration and First Marine Solutions announce strategic partnership to expand autonomous subsea survey capabilities across the UK and Europe. Agreement positions Bedrock's autonomous technology at FMS's North Sea base, combining autonomous ocean intelligence with FMS's offshore infrastructure RICHMOND, Calif., Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Bedrock Ocean Exploration ("Bedrock"), the intelligence infrastructure powering the ocean economy, today announced a multi-year strategic partnership with First Marine Solutions ("FMS"), an established leader in survey and positioning services to the offshore energy sector. The partnership establishes a UK and European operational hub for Bedrock's autonomous ocean intelligence technology at FMS's Aberdeen headquarters, creating an integrated offering that pairs Bedrock's intelligence stack with FMS's offshore experience, regional presence, and consultancy services. Under the agreement, Bedrock will station a complete kit of its autonomous underwater vehicles at FMS's facility in Aberdeen, strategically positioned to support UK and European operations. Bedrock will provide data processing expertise and comprehensive training for FMS personnel, enabling FMS to perform the majority of operations and maintenance locally without the need to ship equipment back to the United States. FMS, in turn, will provide the operational infrastructure to deploy and deliver services at scale, including dedicated facilities for Bedrock, logistics support, marine consultancy services, and a dedicated team of survey engineers trained in collaboration with Bedrock. The combined offering is designed to give clients in offshore energy and subsea infrastructure a vertically integrated solution. The partnership brings together autonomous data acquisition, in-region operational support, and decades of industry-leading survey, processing, and reporting capability. "FMS has built a reputation in the North Sea and beyond for being exactly the kind of partner the offshore energy sector relies upon; experienced, adaptive, and operationally excellent," said Matthew Tirman, Chief Executive Officer of Bedrock. "Pairing our autonomous technology with FMS's regional infrastructure and personnel allows us to deliver Bedrock-quality data to clients across the UK and Europe at the speed and cost the market needs. This partnership is a major step in how we bring the future of subsea insights to the operators building offshore energy infrastructure for the next century of the ocean economy." "Bedrock represents a step change in how subsea data is collected, processed, and delivered as insights at a pace the industry hasn't seen before. We are pleased to bring that capability to our clients, complementing the survey and consultancy services for which we are known across the offshore industry," said Steven Brown, CEO of First Marine Solutions. "Hosting Bedrock's AUV systems in Aberdeen, with our team trained to operate and maintain them, will result in faster response times, increased flexibility, and the opportunity to offer the offshore energy sector a genuinely differentiated service." Beyond field operations, the two companies will collaborate to raise awareness of the new capabilities available to customers, and how they will shape maritime industries in the years to come. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the ocean economy would have been the world's fifth largest economy if it was considered a country in 2019. The same report anticipates the ocean economy will quadruple in size between 1995 to 2050, driven in part by digitization and autonomous technologies. With presence in the North Sea, the partnership between Bedrock and FMS further demonstrates the value of autonomous ocean intelligence to the ongoing growth of the ocean economy, even in the most demanding environments on the planet. About Bedrock Ocean Exploration Bedrock is the intelligence infrastructure powering the ocean economy. TEI Times unlock ocean insights at unprecedented speed. Bedrock is building persistent ocean intelligence solutions that will enable the ocean economy to solve the world's most pressing challenges in maritime security, infrastructure, energy, and climate. Its modular architecture delivers entirely new intelligence capabilities for government and commercial partners. With its streamlined "fly-and-deploy" approach, missions can be mobilized from any vessel of opportunity in just 24 to 72 hours. Its automated intelligence pipeline provides comprehensive insights in hours, not weeks. By completely eliminating the logistics of traditional solutions, TEI Times enable its customers to make critical decisions within their operational window while reducing costs and keeping crews safe on shore. Bedrock was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Richmond, California. For more information, please visit www.bedrockocean.com. About First Marine Solutions Since 2009, First Marine Solutions (FMS) has established itself as a leading provider of integrated mooring solutions to the global energy sector. Offering a complete end-to-end service, FMS supports clients throughout every stage of a project's lifecycle; from system design and engineering to survey and installation, the provision of offshore equipment and personnel, and eventual decommissioning. This comprehensive approach enables FMS to provide a true holistic solution, delivering technical expertise, operational excellence, and reliable project execution worldwide. For more information, please visit www.firstmarinesolutions.com.

GlobeNewswire

Jun 16th, 2026

Integer Technologies and Bedrock Ocean partner to deliver mission-ready autonomous undersea solutions.

Integer Technologies and Bedrock Ocean partner to deliver mission-ready autonomous undersea solutions. Partnership pairs Bedrock's ocean intelligence with Integer's mission assurance software to boost operator confidence. COLUMBIA, S.C., June 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Integer Technologies ("Integer"), a leading provider of mission assurance and reliability software for maritime operations, today announced a partnership with Bedrock, a provider of ocean intelligence infrastructure. The companies will work together to deliver integrated undersea mission capabilities for the U.S. Navy, AUKUS, and special operations customers. The partnership combines Bedrock's insights data with Integer's DIGIT mission assurance platform to give operators a sharper, richer, and more complete picture of the undersea environment. The agreement establishes a framework to combine Bedrock's vertically integrated tech stack, including physical ocean acquisition, using autonomous underwater vehicles, near-real-time seabed data quality control, and customer delivery interfaces, with Integer's DIGIT mission assurance platform, onboard vehicle state monitoring software, and decision-aid tools. The end-result for customers is not only enhanced capabilities but also streamlined procurement. Customers receive a robust, mission-ready, autonomous, undersea solution, eliminating the burden of buying and integrating a vehicle and software stack separately. "Autonomous undersea missions require operator confidence before, during, and after the mission," said Aaron Wagner, Chief Strategy Officer at Integer. "Bedrock brings rich ocean intelligence capabilities, while Integer brings the mission assurance software, autonomy tools, and decision aids that help operators understand system performance, mission risk, and operational conditions. Together, we can deliver an unmatched undersea capability to keep operators continuously informed of true states and conditions, supporting faster decision-making and more effective mission planning." Integer's DIGIT Mission Assurance Platform fuses high-fidelity digital twins, environmental forecasting, vehicle state awareness and decision support to help operators assess, coordinate, and adapt mission plans at the tactical edge. Through the partnership, Bedrock's intelligence infrastructure will work alongside Integer's onboard vehicle state and health monitoring software to create an enhanced data and software pipeline for autonomous undersea missions. "Bedrock's adaptable technology is built to collect and deliver critical undersea intelligence in demanding global environments," said Charles Chiau, Chief Technology Officer at Bedrock. "By partnering with Integer, we are expanding how that intelligence can support operators, mission planning, and real-time decision-making. This collaboration brings together the Bedrock technology stack, the data and the mission assurance layer so customers can move faster with greater confidence." Under the agreement, Integer and Bedrock will evaluate opportunities to connect Bedrock's sensor data with Integer's vehicle state monitoring and DIGIT mission assurance capabilities. The companies will also coordinate customer engagements, identify joint program opportunities, and develop go-to-market activities. "Customers should not be left to solve the platform-to-software integration challenge on their own," said Wagner. "This partnership gives Navy and SOF customers a coordinated team already aligned around the mission. Bedrock's platform credibility, combined with Integer's mission assurance software and customer relationships, create a strong foundation for the next generation of autonomous undersea operations." About Integer Technologies Integer is an agile defense technology company that transforms raw data into decision advantage, protecting our country and ensuring a safer world. We partner with the brightest minds in industry and academia to create mission-focused solutions that refine complex information into actionable intelligence, empowering humans and autonomous systems to predict the probabilities in uncertain environments. Our digital engineering portfolio spans robotic and unmanned systems, sensors and perception, power and energy systems, advanced manufacturing, and cyber-physical systems. Bedrock Ocean Exploration Bedrock is the intelligence infrastructure powering the ocean economy. We unlock ocean insights at unprecedented speed. Our modular architecture delivers entirely new intelligence capabilities for government and commercial partners. With our streamlined "fly-and-deploy" approach, missions can be mobilized from any vessel of opportunity in just 24 to 72 hours. Our automated intelligence pipeline provides comprehensive insights in hours, not weeks. Bedrock was founded in 2020 in Richmond, California. For more information please visit www.bedrockocean.com. Integer Media Contact: Paul Frommelt Vice President, Marketing & Communications [email protected]

PR Newswire

Apr 7th, 2026

Bedrock appoints former Satellogic executive as CEO to drive growth in automated maritime surveillance.

Bedrock appoints former Satellogic executive as CEO to drive growth in automated maritime surveillance. Apr 07, 2026, 10:20 ET Bedrock Adapts to Meet Growing Demand in Defense, Energy, and Environmental Monitoring Sectors in the U.S. and Europe. RICHMOND, Calif., April 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Bedrock Ocean Exploration, a leader in automated underwater data and intelligence, today announced the appointment of Matthew Tirman as CEO, as the company builds on major deployments and increasing demand in global offshore markets. Mr. Tirman brings over twenty years of experience in developing high-tech companies in geospatial intelligence, data platforms, and high-growth global commercial operations. Previously, he contributed to the leadership of Satellogic, which achieved early commercial traction, generated tens of millions in revenue, and went public. Under his guidance, Satellogic provided cutting-edge imaging and data products to defense and intelligence sector clients worldwide, as well as sales of complex space systems including a large-scale maritime constellation. As CEO, he will lead Bedrock's strategy, market execution, and operational growth. Founder Charles Chiau will remain Chief Technology Officer, focusing on hardware and software advancements as Bedrock enters its next phase of innovation by delivering AI-driven automated underwater intelligence for businesses and government clients globally. 'The opportunity before us is enormous,' said Mr. Tirman, Bedrock's new CEO. 'It feels like the early days of the space economy, where access to high-quality data unlocked entirely new markets. Today, we are supporting sustained operations in complex offshore environments in the Gulf of Mexico, the UK, and the North Sea, and we are seeing exceptionally strong demand from both government and commercial sectors.' Bedrock is building the largest private fleet of automated underwater vehicles, serving offshore energy, hydrographic mapping, and maritime security sectors. Its vertically integrated platform with multi-sensor underwater data can be deployed without specialized infrastructure and operate in a wide range of offshore environments, from small vessels to large ships. Bedrock's Mosaic platform provides seamless data access, visualization, and collaboration, while Trident supports remote fleet operations and mission coordination, enabling faster surveys, reduced costs, and more reliable data than traditional methods. 'Having served as both CEO and CTO during our initial growth, I am excited to continue innovating and redefining how maritime intelligence is collected and delivered,' said Mr. Chiau, Bedrock's founder and CTO. 'With Matt leading commercialization, I will focus on advancing our dual-use technical roadmap to further increase the speed of knowledge access for our clients.' 'Access to high-quality seabed data has always been slow, costly, and complex,' said Greg Sands, founder and managing partner of Costanoa. 'As demand accelerates in energy, defense, and environmental monitoring, Bedrock is redefining what is possible with a faster, safer, and more cost-effective approach to underwater intelligence.' About Bedrock Ocean Exploration Bedrock Ocean Exploration is building a new era of planetary intelligence. By combining a fleet of automated underwater vehicles with embedded AI, onboard processing, and cloud-based data platforms, Bedrock delivers high-resolution underwater intelligence faster, at lower cost, and on a global scale. Its vertically integrated approach enables governments and commercial operators to better understand, protect, and manage critical ocean infrastructure, advance maritime security, and foster climate and environmental understanding. For more information, please visit www.bedrockocean.com.

PR Newswire

Apr 7th, 2026

Former Satellogic exec appointed Bedrock CEO to scale autonomous subsea intelligence platform

Bedrock Ocean Exploration has appointed Matthew Tirman as chief executive officer to drive growth in autonomous maritime intelligence. The Richmond, California-based company is scaling operations to meet rising demand across defence, energy and environmental monitoring in the US and Europe. Tirman brings over 20 years of experience scaling deep-technology companies. He previously helped lead Satellogic through early commercialisation to tens of millions in revenue and its public market listing, delivering imagery and data products to defence and intelligence customers worldwide. Founder Charles Chiau will continue as chief technology officer, focusing on hardware and software development. Bedrock is building the largest private fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles, offering faster surveys and lower costs than traditional methods through its Mosaic and Trident platforms.

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Staff AI Platform Engineer: Agent & Retrieval Infrastructure

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