Bedrock Ocean Exploration

Bedrock Ocean Exploration is a platform for underwater vehicles.

11-50 employees
Founded 2020
$25.5M series a
Service Industry
Private Company

Open Positions1

East Coast location is required to support coverage across both European operations and the East CoastFull-TimeOcean ExplorationPosted
  • Own reliability across the full path from vehicle to customer: AUV onboard compute, topside systems, cloud data pipelines, and the delivery platform.
  • Build and extend infrastructure automation including provisioning, configuration management, and self-recovery tools.
  • Design and improve observability systems including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting for vehicle fleets and cloud services.
  • Drive down on-call burden by identifying and eliminating single points of failure and automating manual steps.
  • Participate in a shared 12-hour on-call rotation spanning European and East Coast business hours.
  • Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS for data processing and platform workloads.
  • Improve fleet- and vehicle-level configuration management and deployment safety.
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About Bedrock Ocean Exploration

Bedrock Ocean Exploration builds autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to transform ocean mapping. You will help gather critical seafloor data for renewable energy and maritime security. Our technology offers a safer, more efficient, and environmentally friendly approach. We provide high-resolution data products to customers through our cloud platform. Our process makes ocean exploration faster, returning insights in hours instead of weeks. We serve sectors like offshore wind, defense, and scientific research.

How We Work

You will join a small, fast-moving team passionate about ocean exploration. We operate as a Public Benefit Corporation, committed to open data sharing for environmental research. Our team values individuals who are mission-centric and take calculated risks. You will contribute to a culture that supports autonomy and continuous learning. We encourage sharing knowledge and building robust systems together.

Engineering at Bedrock Ocean Exploration

You will solve unique engineering challenges at the intersection of robotics and cloud infrastructure. We are scaling toward continuous, around-the-clock data collection campaigns. Your work ensures vehicles stay operational and data flows reliably. This involves optimizing AUV onboard compute systems, like Jetson-class modules and ROS 2. You will also manage extensive cloud data pipelines on AWS. We focus on automation, turning manual tasks into self-healing systems. You will improve configuration management, deployment safety, and rollback for field reliability. Our goal is to enable seamless, long-duration missions with minimal human intervention.

Why Join Us

  • Drive reliability and automation across robotics and cloud systems, seeing direct impact.
  • Work on high-leverage infrastructure that enables continuous ocean exploration at scale.
  • Solve complex problems combining embedded systems, intermittent connectivity, and cloud architecture.
  • Contribute to a mission-driven company mapping the world's oceans for critical global challenges.
  • Shape a growing SRE practice, setting operational standards and mentoring team members.

Benefits & Perks

  • Base salary of $164,000–$220,000 annually, depending on location.
  • Comprehensive employee benefits package.
  • Equity options for all employees.

Tech Stack

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