Full-Time
Head of Software Engineering
Devops, & AI
Seakeeper
201-500 employees
Manufactures gyroscopic stabilizers for boats
No salary listed
Reading, PA, USA + 1 more
More locations: Fort Myers, FL, USA
In Person
Onsite in Leesport, PA or Fort Myers, FL; up to 25% travel to other Seakeeper facilities/events.
Bachelor's, Master's
 DevOps & Infrastructure (1) |
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- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience working in business systems, IT, or technology leadership role with 10+ years of progressive experience including: Cloud architecture or platform engineering, with production experience on Microsoft Azure
- Hands-on experience with Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or equivalent container orchestration, PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, Blob Storage, Key Vault, and Entra ID
- Direct experience shipping OTA or firmware-update infrastructure for a physical connected product – automotive, marine, industrial IoT, medical device, or similar
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform
- Networking fundamentals — virtual network design (hub-and-spoke topology), VPN Gateway, TLS/mTLS, DNS, and load balancing
- Experience designing microservices architectures, RESTful APIs, and event-driven integration patterns
- Hands-on DevOps practice: CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
- Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
- A dynamic leader who understands the value of being present, accessible and accountable to their team and the business stakeholders
- Observability tooling — Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights, or equivalent platforms (Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus)
- Experience with progressive delivery patterns — canary releases, blue-green deployments, feature flags, and automated rollback
- Applied AI/ML experience with real technical depth — Python and standard frameworks (PyTorch, scikit-learn, or similar)
- Demonstrated experience building custom ML models from the ground up for process-improvement or operational use cases — not limited to configuring pre-built APIs or AutoML platforms
- MLOps practice — model versioning, deployment, and monitoring in production (MLflow, Azure Machine Learning, or equivalent)
- Data pipeline and ETL/ELT experience (Azure Data Factory, dbt, or equivalent)
- Experience with time-series data and predictive maintenance or anomaly-detection modeling is highly relevant given the telemetry use case
- Security and PKI experience — certificate lifecycles, code-signing chains, and trust architecture. This role owns the signing chain for every firmware update that reaches the fleet, not a delegated afterthought
- Secrets management experience (Azure Key Vault or HashiCorp Vault)
- People-management – you've directly managed engineers before, including hiring, code review, and career development
- Managing budgets & external vendor relationships
- IoT/embedded security threat models and mitigations
- Data warehousing concepts and tooling (Azure Synapse, Snowflake, or similar)
- SRE practices — SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, on-call rotations, and incident management
- Comfortable operating at the executive level — translate technical tradeoffs into business terms
- Comfortable being the architect and the builder at once — this is a small, growing team, not one with a bench to hand things off to
- Track record partnering directly with embedded or firmware engineering teams across the device-to-cloud boundary.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and strategic planning skills
- Flexible and adaptable with the ability to deal with ambiguity and triaging competing priorities
- Openness to collaboration in all scenarios – you bring good ideas to the table, but can also recognize them from others
- Flexible and agile with the ability to pivot quickly to changing circumstances and business demands
- Changemaker with a bias for positive action
- Master’s degree in computer science, data science, or a related field preferred
- Relevant industry certifications preferred – Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure AI Engineer Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or equivalent
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Bicep or ARM templates
- Experience in marine, automotive, or industrial equipment connected-product platforms
- Prior experience standing up DevOps practice from scratch at a growth-stage or PE-owned manufacturing company
- Experience managing external technology vendors and evaluating build-vs-buy tradeoffs on live platform decisions
- Contribution to open-source tooling in the DevOps, MLOps, or IoT space
- Experience operating in a multi-site or distributed manufacturing environment
Seakeeper sells and installs gyroscopic stabilizers that reduce boat roll to improve stability and comfort across small to large vessels. The system uses a gyroscope-driven mechanism that actively counters rolling motion, mounted on boats of various sizes. Revenue comes from selling and retrofitting units, with financing options and remanufactured units, supported by an installer network of dealers and yacht builders. The goal is to help maritime travel be smoother and safer by providing reliable stabilization across new builds and existing boats.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$830K
Headquarters
Leesport, Pennsylvania
Founded
2002
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Seakeeper launched 7.5 in July 2026, refreshing the lineup before Q4 shipping.
- Barletta's 2026 pontoon launch and 15-brand OEM expansion widen Seakeeper Ride adoption.
- MJM's exclusive 2026 lineup and Regulator's full-line standardization deepen dealer pull-through.
What critics are saying
- Dometic's DG3 lawsuit survived dismissal; Delaware litigation runs through 2026 and beyond.
- Judge Barker denied Seakeeper's injunction in July 2025, letting DG3 ship during trial.
- Seakeeper's moat depends on patents; an adverse validity ruling would unravel pricing power.
What makes Seakeeper unique
- Seakeeper 7.5 delivers 25% more stabilization in 20% less volume, shipping Q4 2026.
- Seakeeper Ride now spans 175-plus models across 33 OEM brands, embedding into factory builds.
- The 2026 integration unifies Gyro and Ride, improving combined performance about 20%.
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↑ 3%Seakeeper advances industry-leading stabilisation with new Seakeeper 7.5. New gyrostabilizer delivers 25% more stabilising power in 20% less volume alongside enhanced Seakeeper 5 and Seakeeper 10.5 models. Seakeeper, the global leader in marine stabilisation, announces the launch of the all-new Seakeeper 7.5 and enhanced versions of the Seakeeper 5 and Seakeeper 10.5. The new and updated models reinforce the company's commitment to delivering maximum stabilization and efficiency across a broad range of vessels. New: Seakeeper 7.5. Launching with an all-new mechanical design, the Seakeeper 7.5 is a completely re-engineered system designed for boats from 45 to 54 feet in length. The Seakeeper 7.5 delivers 25% more stabilisation in 20% less volume compared to the Seakeeper 6, while maintaining a similar installation footprint. The result is a gyrostabilizer that is not only more powerful, but also easy to integrate into modern boats designed around the Seakeeper 6 - an important feature for current Seakeeper 6 owners, who will have the option to upgrade to the Seakeeper 7.5 through Seakeeper's Trade-In Program. "The Seakeeper 7.5 is the result of more than 20 years with a singular focus on one thing: stabilisation," said Seakeeper President and CEO Andrew Semprevivo. "Our culture has never been about accepting the status quo. We're relentlessly pushing the limits of what's possible, challenging ourselves to deliver more stabilisation in the smallest and lightest package with every new product introduction." The Seakeeper 7.5 reaches stabilisation in as little as 10 minutes, more than 50% faster than the Seakeeper 6, which will retire mid-2027. Additionally, the new model integrates with Seakeeper Ride for boats that have both stabilisation solutions, creating one unified intelligent stabilisation system for maximum underway pitch, roll, and yaw elimination. The Seakeeper 7.5 incorporates several upgrades featured in recent model introductions, including a single-cylinder brake design that saves space and weight, enhances reliability by eliminating hoses and connections, and requires no annual service. The new model will be available to ship in Q4 2026 and will retail for $78,700. "In a market where price increases are hindering new boat purchases for new and seasoned boaters alike, Seakeeper is working hard to drive down cost and size while adding performance," explained Will Cimino, Seakeeper's Chief Commercial Officer. "Compared to the M7000, the Seakeeper 7.5's first predecessor launched in 2008, the Seakeeper 7.5 offers 97% more performance per cubic inch while delivering 12% decrease in retail cost. That's the kind of innovation that keeps moving the industry forward." More performance: Seakeeper 5 and Seakeeper 10.5. In addition to the Seakeeper 7.5, Seakeeper is introducing updated versions of two existing models, extending engineering advancements across the product line to increase performance without increasing size. The Seakeeper 5 will offer 11% more performance than its predecessor, the Seakeeper 4.5, and will retail for $60,500. The Seakeeper 10.5 will offer 5% more performance than its predecessor, the Seakeeper 10, and will retail for $133,900. The Seakeeper 5 will be available in September 2026 and the Seakeeper 10.5 will follow in Q4 2026. Across all of these products, the focus on performance remains consistent: deliver more stabilisation in a smaller envelope, pushing the boundaries of what onboard stabilisation can achieve. About Seakeeper Seakeeper, Inc., founded in 2023, is the leader in marine motion control, changing the boating experience by eliminating unwanted motions and increasing comfort and safety onboard. Seakeeper, a gyrostabilizer for boats 23-200+ ft., eliminates up to 95% of boat roll, the rocking motion that causes seasickness, fatigue, and anxiety. The product launched in 2008 and is based in Leesport, Pennsylvania. Seakeeper Ride, a transom-mounted Vessel Attitude Control System (VACS), eliminates up to 70% of underway pitch and roll for boats 19-55 ft. It launched in 2022 and is based in Fort Myers, Florida. For more information, visit seakeeper.com.
Seakeeper adds Seakeeper 7.5. July 20, 2026 Home " Seakeeper adds Seakeeper 7.5. Seakeeper announced the launch of its new Seakeeper 7.5, along with enhanced versions of the Seakeeper 5 and Seakeeper 10.5. Featuring a new mechanical design, the Seakeeper 7.5 delivers 25% more stabilization in 20% less volume compared to the Seakeeper 6, making it easy to integrate into modern boats designed around the Seakeeper 6. "The Seakeeper 7.5 is the result of more than 20 years with a singular focus on one thing: stabilization," says Seakeeper President and CEO Andrew Semprevivo. "Our culture has never been about accepting the status quo. We're relentlessly pushing the limits of what's possible, challenging ourselves to deliver more stabilization in the smallest and lightest package with every new product introduction." The Seakeeper 7.5 reaches stabilization in as little as 10 minutes, over 50% faster than the Seakeeper 6, and integrates with Seakeeper Ride, delivering one unified intelligent stabilization system. The new model will be available in Q4 2026, with a retail price of $78,700. In addition to the 7.5, Seakeeper is offering updated versions of two existing models, increasing performance while maintaining size. The Seakeeper 5 will offer 11% more performance than its predecessor, the Seakeeper 4.5, and will retail for $60,500, available in September 2026. The Seakeeper 10.5 will offer 5% more performance than its predecessor, the Seakeeper 10, and will retail for $133,900, available in Q4 2026.
Barletta brings Seakeeper Ride stabilisation to pontoon boats. Barletta's decision to introduce Seakeeper Ride to the pontoon market marks a genuine shift in how these boats perform underway. For the first time, pontoon owners gain access to active stabilisation technology that directly targets comfort, control, and confidence once the boat leaves the dock. The partnership between Barletta Boats and Seakeeper brings Seakeeper Ride to pontoons as an industry first. Until now, active underway stabilisation has largely been reserved for monohulls and larger powerboats. Pontoons, despite their popularity, have remained underserved in this area. Seakeeper Ride works by actively managing roll, pitch, and yaw while the boat is moving. Using onboard sensors and proprietary software, the system automatically makes real-time adjustments without any input from the skipper. On boats up to around 55 feet, it can reduce pitch and roll by as much as 70 percent. The result is a ride that feels calmer, more settled, and far less fatiguing, particularly when running into chop, crossing wakes, or carrying uneven passenger loads. To integrate the system properly, Barletta worked closely with Seakeeper's engineering team to reengineer parts of the aft running surface and develop a dedicated mounting solution. This ensures the system performs at its best without compromising deck layout, comfort, or Barletta's existing construction advantages, including its dual I-beam chassis and Vibration Isolation Pad technology. On Barletta pontoons, the Seakeeper Ride software has also been refined to allow the boat to bank naturally into turns while remaining level as people move around the deck. Steering feels more precise, and the boat requires fewer constant corrections, particularly in unsettled conditions. The industry has taken notice. The Barletta and Seakeeper partnership received a Boating Industry Innovation Award at the 2026 Minneapolis Boat Show, recognising technology that delivers real, tangible improvements on the water. For New Zealand buyers, this technology is within reach. Seakeeper Ride is available locally through Absolute Marine, while Barletta Pontoons are represented in New Zealand by NZ Powersports. Initial availability covers the 23 Lusso and 25 Lusso models, with broader rollout planned. For pontoon owners who value comfort, predictability, and reduced fatigue underway, this represents a meaningful step forward rather than a cosmetic upgrade.
Seakeeper Ride's West Coast Demo Tour is coming to California.
North River has teamed up with Seakeeper to deliver an optimal boating experience on their 35' WXL Walk Around model, bringing both Seakeeper's Ride and Gyro systems to this versatile vessel.