Saronic

We are expanding in Louisiana with a new 15,000 sq. ft. office in downtown New Orleans! We're bringing engineers and technical teams closer to our Gulf Coast production to support our growing shipbuilding operations at our Franklin, LA shipyard. Excited to build alongside Louisiana’s incredible maritime talent as we continue investing in a region that has long powered American shipbuilding. Learn more here: medium.com/saronic-techno… Check out our open positions and apply here: jobs.lever.co/saronic

We welcomed Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Growth and Director of the Office of Small Business Programs, James R. Mismash, to Saronic’s production facilities in Austin, TX to see how we are rapidly scaling autonomous maritime capabilities to support the U.S. defense industrial base. Thank you for taking the time to visit us and for your leadership in helping ensure maritime superiority for America and its allies.

2 Marauders nearing completion, with a 3rd underway in just 9 months. Speed. Execution. Scale. Repeat.

RT @MavrookasD: Grateful to @RonaldReagan for hosting the NSIB Summit and for the chance to discuss rebuilding America’s industrial strengt…

Rebuilding US manufacturing capacity to produce critical defense systems at speed & scale requires rethinking how we design, build, & field maritime platforms. Tune in for @MavrookasD panel at @ReaganInstitute National Security Innovation Base Summit this week.

Our Co-founder & CEO @MavrookasD joined @a16z at the American Dynamism: America 250 Summit last week for a fireside chat with @espricewright and Under Secretary of War for Acquisition & Sustainment @USDASDuffey. They discussed how to close the gap between innovation and operational deployment, how software-led production is changing the economics and timelines of shipbuilding, and what it will take to rebuild sustained maritime industrial capacity in the United States. As we mark 250 years of American Dynamism, it is worth remembering that maritime strength has always underpinned our national security. The next chapter will depend on our ability to build at speed and at scale, and the Saronic team remains focused on doing exactly that.

Build it. Test it. See it run on the water. #FleetLab 1.0 — applications close Wednesday, March 11! If you are a student who wants to build autonomy that operates in the real world, this is your opportunity. At this first-of-its-kind hackathon, you will tackle real maritime autonomy challenges across UI, Autonomy + Navigation, and Machine Learning. Winning teams will see their code deploy live on Saronic’s autonomous test vessels, take home Lambda Cloud Credits and cash prizes, and have an opportunity to interview for a role at Saronic. Join us on March 15. Apply here: airtable.com/appIs0UG7L4Oz9…

Our co-founder and CTO Vib Altekar will join @tectonicdefense Defense Summit next week to discuss maritime autonomy: what it takes to build autonomy at sea, how vertically integrated design, software, and manufacturing enable speed and scale, and why this is a pivotal period for American shipbuilding. Join the conversation on March 11 at 15:45 in the Main Garden at Inn Cahoots in Austin, TX.

Simple. Correct. Fast. That’s the mental model our software team adopted in the early days of Saronic — and it shaped how we built our video streaming stack for our autonomous vessels, with Corsair today having one of the highest functioning video streaming capabilities on the water. The team didn’t try to boil the ocean. Instead, they stabilized production and invested in the right long-term architecture. The result was lower latency, faster join times, and scalable video delivered when the customer needed it, without crushing boat bandwidth. Learn more here: medium.com/saronic-techno…

The Saronic team successfully completed the hull flip of our second Marauder vessel, less than three months after the first. The hull flip is significant because it marks the completion of the ship’s primary structural build. Meanwhile, vessel three is already underway at our shipyard in Franklin, Louisiana. This pace is no accident. It reflects a deliberate approach to shipbuilding at scale — pairing world-class shipbuilding talent with advanced manufacturing and a production system designed for speed and repeatability. Scale isn’t a future goal. It’s happening now.

This week, we welcomed graduate students in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the @UMich BRIDGE Program to Saronic. The group toured our headquarters in Austin, TX to see Corsair production in action and traveled to our shipyard in Franklin, LA, where Marauder manufacturing is underway. Thanks to all the students who participated — always great to spend time with the talent that will rebuild the maritime industrial base and carry American shipbuilding forward!

Shipbuilding is entering a new era — one defined by autonomy, scale, and a fundamentally new way of thinking about how vessels are designed and produced. Our co-founder and CEO @MavrookasD joined @McKinsey Senior Partners Brooke Weddle and Vik Sohoni to discuss Saronic’s approach to redefining the process of shipbuilding, the potential to improve naval efficiency and safety, and the culture needed to align a fast-growing company under one mission. Learn more here: mckinsey.com/industries/aer…

Great conversation about integrating autonomy at scale with speed into the @USNavy Fleet with @USDASDuffey & @AUVSI member @Saronic’s CEO @MavrookasD with @a16z’s @espricewright at American Dynamism 💪🏼⚓️🇺🇸

We’re looking forward to joining @a16z American Dynamism: America 250 Summit! Our co-founder and CEO @MavrookasD will join a16z's @espricewright and Under Secretary of War for Acquisition & Sustainment @USDASDuffey for a fireside chat on what it takes to move from prototypes to production at volume, how autonomy and software are reshaping modern shipbuilding, and what it will take to scale America's maritime industrial base.

“We’re going to bring shipbuilding back to the United States in a way that we haven’t seen since World War II.” Our Co-founder and CEO @MavrookasD joined Crossing the Valley to discuss why restoring American shipbuilding capacity is an imperative for the United States. If platforms cannot be produced in the thousands, design alone is not enough — and America has to get back to building ships in this country again, and at scale. That conviction is why Saronic was built as a vertically integrated company from day one, pairing autonomy software with hardware design, digitizing the vessels, and engineering for manufacturability from the prototype phase forward. With its next-generation shipyard Port Alpha, Saronic aims to add net new U.S. shipbuilding capacity and rebuild the industrial base that underwrites America's maritime power. Check out the full episode here: valleycrossers.com/p/ep-73-saroni…

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FleetLab 1.0 is LIVE. Join us for the first-ever Saronic hackathon — where your code will run real autonomous boats. We are building autonomous surface vessels from the ground up — designing hardware, software, and autonomy systems in-house and deploying them at scale. FleetLab 1.0 puts you in the middle of our work, challenging you to solve the same autonomy problems our team faces in the real world. Winning teams will watch their code deploy live on Saronic’s autonomous test vessels. Participants will choose one of three tracks: 📍 Track 1: UI: Visualizing Autonomous Decisions How should operators understand what an autonomous system is thinking? Design interfaces and apps that make autonomy transparent, intuitive, and mission-ready. 📍 Track 2: Autonomy + Navigation Develop logic, modeling, or machine learning approaches that improve decision-making in dynamic maritime environments. 📍 Track 3: Machine Learning Track Apply machine learning techniques to real autonomy-focused datasets and deployment scenarios. Are you a Texas-based student and ready to take on the challenge? Application link in the first comment!

Rebuilding American shipbuilding capacity is an economic and national security imperative. We are greatly encouraged by the actions of the Administration and Senator @SenToddYoung for rapidly advancing the bipartisan SHIPS for America Act to help restore US maritime strength -

Corsair, our 24ft Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV), has officially crossed 100,000 nautical miles traveled — that’s nearly five times around the Earth or almost halfway to the Moon! This milestone represents more than distance. It reflects relentless testing across diverse maritime environments, sea states, and mission profiles to ensure Corsair remains mission-ready in a rapidly changing threat environment. Congratulations to the entire Saronic team for crossing the 100k threshold and for the hard work that keeps us moving farther and faster every day. Here’s to the next 100,000!

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Over 160 Saronic teammates showed up in full force at the Austin Marathon last weekend, running everything from the 5K to the full marathon. That made us one of the largest companies represented across the entire event. We trained side by side, pushed through tough miles, and celebrated together at the finish line, with teammates lining the course to show their support. The same mindset we bring to redefining maritime superiority is the one that carried us across the finish line — one mission, one team. We are hiring for a variety of roles across all of our locations. If you want to build alongside people who push each other, move fast, and win together — join us (link in comments below)!