Autonomous surface vehicles for defense, research, and commercial ocean data collection
Seasats builds and operates uncrewed surface vessels designed for high-risk or cost-prohibitive maritime missions. The tech stack (Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, OpenWrt) is lean and embedded-systems-focused, paired with hardware design tools (Solidworks, Fusion 360, Altium) — reflecting a hardware-centric business. Hiring is heavily skewed toward manufacturing (8 roles) and engineering (6), with production scaling and communications reliability appearing repeatedly in their pain-point list, signaling that manufacturing velocity and field connectivity are current bottlenecks.
Seasats operates autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) that deploy sensors into maritime environments too dangerous or expensive to access with crewed crews. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Diego. Current customers span defense, research, and commercial sectors. The business is production-constrained: active projects center on power systems, communications hardware, payload integration, and deployments to Navy bases, while pain points cluster around manufacturing scale, hardware reliability, field connectivity, and vendor delays. The team is 11–50 people, with hiring velocity accelerating across manufacturing, engineering, and operations roles.
Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, OpenWrt for software; Solidworks, Fusion 360, Altium Designer for hardware design; Slack and Signal for communications.
Power systems and communications hardware design, payload integration, remote monitoring infrastructure, vehicle deployments to Navy bases, and production scaling. Field connectivity and manufacturing velocity are key development priorities.
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