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$180–250K / year · San Diego, California, US
Seasats builds solar-powered autonomous surface vehicles for persistent maritime intelligence, ISR, and oceanographic data collection.
Seasats develops autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) designed for persistent maritime operations. The company's Lightfish platform is a solar-powered ASV that has completed missions spanning over 7,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean in 150 days, with autonomous operations duration of up to six months. The vehicle is designed to operate in sea state 6 conditions and supports 50+ modular payload systems for diverse mission sets.
The Lightfish platform is deployed for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), including illegal fishing detection, submarine signal tracking, and hurricane path monitoring. It also gathers oceanographic data, tracks wildlife, and monitors toxic algal blooms. The vehicle's solar-powered architecture enables the persistent on-station time required for these long-duration tasks.
Seasats serves defense, research, and commercial enterprise customers, with deployments reported on every inhabited continent. The technical work spans the full autonomy stack for surface vessels, integrating navigation, sensor fusion, payload management, and communications for extended uncrewed operation in open-ocean environments.