Senior Software Engineer Vessel Operating System

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will shape the core platform that powers autonomous and remotely operated vessels worldwide. You build the Vessel Operating System (VOS)—the layer that connects PLCbased hardware systems with navigation, control, and mission software. Your work enables safe, reliable, and intelligent vessel operations across a global fleet. 

Your Role 

• You provide technical leadership within a multidisciplinary engineering team, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and highquality engineering practices. 

• You design and implement distributed services with a strong foundation in modern programming languages, applying deep expertise in C++ and C#/.NET to build reliable and highperformance components. 

• You develop eventdriven, pub/sub communication layers with clear structures and robust contracts that support predictable and safe vessel behaviour. 

• You implement time synchronization, state estimation, fault handling, and resilience patterns across services to ensure consistent and deterministic system behaviour. 

• You integrate with autopilot PLCs, propulsion PLCs, and AMCS systems, defining interfaces and simulation/HIL pathways that support testing and operational readiness. 

• You embed observability—metrics, logs, traces—and contribute to fleetscale reliability and safety practices. 

• You contribute to deployment strategies, compatibility considerations, and progressive delivery approaches that support global operations. 

Your Track Record 

• You have experience working in safetycritical environments and excel at collaborating across teams, communicating clearly, and guiding engineering initiatives with a steady and supportive leadership style. 

• You bring 6+ years of experience building distributed or realtime systems, with strong architectural skills and deep knowledge of programming languages such as C++ and C#/.NET. 

• You understand controlsystem patterns and messaging deeply, including pub/sub, event sourcing, and idempotency. 

• You are fluent in networking fundamentals—TCP/UDP, QoS, routing—and in designing robust APIs and schemas using technologies such as REST, DDS, or Protobuf. 

• You are familiar with industrial and maritime protocols such as NMEA 0183/2000, CAN/J1939, and Modbus, and can design and implement reliable adapters.