Hydrographer/Geophysicist

The role

You will process and analyze multibeam, sidescan, magnetometer, and sub-bottom data from field tests and commercial operations. You will also create data products for clients and discuss data quality, interpretation, and deliverables with them.

What you will do

• First-pass analysis of MBES, SSS, magnetometer, and/or sub-bottom profiler data using commercial software
• Own rapid, iterative feedback on data quality
• Spot artifacts and anomalies and reason about what caused them
• Work with Bedrock leadership and customers to hold high data quality standards
• Create data products and write-ups for commercial clients
• Serve as a primary point of contact for data quality issues, interpretations, and deliverables
• Teach clients about the unique value of AUV data
• Explain trade-offs, limitations, and uncertainty clearly
• Contribute to how uncertainty and accuracy get defined in ocean data
• Collaborate with product and engineering on vehicle and survey planning improvements

Required qualifications

• Experience processing and reporting on at least two of: MBES, SSS, magnetometer, sub-bottom profiler, using commercial software
• Comfort with ArcGIS, QGIS, and/or AutoCAD
• Experience writing data reports for commercial clients
• Attention to detail

Nice to have

• Experience across all four relevant sensor types (MBES, SSS, magnetometer, sub-bottom profiler)
• Light coding (Python/SQL)
• Offshore experience (ship or AUV ops)
• Certified Hydrographer, Cat A or Cat B
• Licensed Surveyor
• Experience across defense (mine countermeasures, unexploded ordnance), energy (oil & gas, offshore wind), and/or environmental survey

About the company

Bedrock is mapping the unseen world beneath our oceans and building the systems to do it at scale.