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 Geospatial Software Engineer to help develop the core geospatial software powering Vector Charts and future maritime mapping & perception products. You’ll work on systems for geospatial data processing, web data visualization, sensor processing, and APIs.

This role involves close collaboration with engineers working across cloud infrastructure, geospatial data, robotics, autonomy, and user interfaces. We’re looking for someone who combines strong software engineering fundamentals with practical GIS knowledge and a good eye for cartography and map design.

What You'll Do

- Design, develop & deploy full-stack product infrastructure for geospatial data ingestion, processing, visualization & delivery
- Implement cloud-based architecture for hosting large-scale APIs-as-a-Service
- Design symbology and theming for map visualization layers
- Work to integrate a-priori and realtime maritime data such as S-57/S-100 charts, sonar and acoustic sensor data
- Collaborate with the larger Zydro engineering team to build out our roadmap for bathymetry processing & visualization

Required Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of shipping complex, full-stack applications.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with industry-standard GIS tools and databases (eg. GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, PostGIS)
- Strong proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C++, Rust, Go, etc)
- Experience with the use of SQL
- Familiarity with Linux-based operating systems & command-line usage

Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient with React, HTML, CSS and other web development technologies
- Understanding of 3D graphics rendering fundamentals
- Experience in Docker, Git, any CI/CD tool, and software development testing & deployment
- Domain knowledge working with sonar, LIDAR, RADAR or other maritime sensors
- Experience in the maritime domain (Operating on boats!)
- Experience with Mapbox GL and Mapbox Vector Tiles
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform).
- A passion for great map design & visualization

About the company

Zydro Marine Technologies builds software and hardware modules for maritime robotics to speed up and lower the cost of deploying unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). Its offerings include USV Core (the foundational software stack), Zeus C2 (a command-and-control platform for coordinating multiple USVs), and Vector Charts (real-time nautical charts and multi-vehicle mission planning). The company supports an open ecosystem of interoperable software and hardware components so clients can mix and match tools to design, build, and operate fleets of autonomous vessels. By providing essential, reusable tools—rather than single-purpose solutions—Zydro differentiates itself from providers that lock customers into proprietary systems. The goal is to help defense contractors, researchers, and marine developers deploy mission-capable autonomous fleets more cheaply and quickly, enabling applications in climate research, offshore energy, and the protection of free trade.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Newton, Massachusetts

Founded

2025

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

June 23, 2026 hiring for a Robotics Software Engineer signals active product development.
September 2026 LinkedIn shows 605 followers, suggesting growing founder-led market awareness.
Vector Charts and maritime spatial intelligence fit surveying, autonomy, and defense workflows.

What critics are saying

April 14, 2026 Form D shows only $2 million raised; runway stays short.
LinkedIn lists one-to-ten employees on September 1, 2026; execution depends on founders.
If defense contracts slip past 2027, cash burn and hiring plans collapse.

What makes Zydro Marine Technologies unique

June 2026 product pages package geospatial APIs, Vector Charts, and ocean-robot data collection.
Zydro combines maritime software with modular hardware for USVs, not software alone.
CAGE 165R2 and defense positioning target government procurement, not consumer boating.

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