Unmanned maritime platforms for defense operations in contested environments
SubSea Craft designs and manufactures unmanned and manned maritime systems (UAVs, USVs, USSVs, ROVs) for defense and special forces. The tech stack—C++, ROS, Gazebo, CANopen, NMEA 2000, plus CAD tools (Solidworks, Rhino, Inventor)—reflects a hardware-software integration shop. Active hiring is engineering-dominant (25 of 37 roles) with a seniority distribution skewed toward mid and senior engineers, signaling scaling of production and platform maturity work rather than early-stage R&D.
SubSea Craft Limited, founded in 2014 and based in Portsmouth, England, develops modular maritime platforms for military and special operations forces. The company operates across subsurface, surface, and air domains with both manned and unmanned capabilities, designed for use in contested and denied environments. Current active projects span advanced UAV platform assembly, unmanned surface vessel (USV) programs, and unmanned submarine vessel (USSV) systems. The organization faces typical constraints of low-volume defense manufacturing: safety compliance across multiple simultaneous programs, quality management system integration, and the operational challenge of link reliability in remote platforms.
SubSea Craft designs and builds unmanned maritime platforms including UAVs, USVs (unmanned surface vessels), USSVs (unmanned submarine vessels), and ROVs for defense and special operations forces. Platforms are built for operation in contested and denied environments.
Engineering stack includes C++, ROS / ROS 2, Gazebo (simulation), Qt / QML (UI), CANopen, and NMEA 2000 (maritime protocols). CAD tools: Solidworks, Rhino, Inventor. Project and manufacturing tools: Jira, Microsoft Project, Infor LN, Power BI.
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