
Tocaro Blue modernizes legacy marine Radar by transforming it into a powerful perception sensor through AI software. Their core product, ProteusCore™, leverages advanced machine learning models to enhance marine Radar capabilities. By analyzing millions of labeled Radar images, ProteusCore automatically tunes range and gain for better detection, classifies every radar return to eliminate noise, and precisely tracks objects. This technology is applied across various marine industries including defense, OEM, and recreational boating, aiming to provide cost-effective solutions for vessel control, situational awareness, and collision avoidance. Tocaro Blue also offers complementary products like the Devkit Hardware for integration assessment and the Proteus Hub for transforming digital displays into actionable navigation insights. The company was founded in 2019 by Tom Patterson, with John Minor joining as CEO in 2023.

Tocaro Blue modernizes legacy marine Radar by transforming it into a powerful perception sensor through AI software. Their core product, ProteusCore™, leverages advanced machine learning models to enhance marine Radar capabilities. By analyzing millions of labeled Radar images, ProteusCore automatically tunes range and gain for better detection, classifies every radar return to eliminate noise, and precisely tracks objects. This technology is applied across various marine industries including defense, OEM, and recreational boating, aiming to provide cost-effective solutions for vessel control, situational awareness, and collision avoidance. Tocaro Blue also offers complementary products like the Devkit Hardware for integration assessment and the Proteus Hub for transforming digital displays into actionable navigation insights. The company was founded in 2019 by Tom Patterson, with John Minor joining as CEO in 2023.
Location: Southeastern United States (Hybrid/Remote)
Transform Maritime Intelligence with Cutting-Edge AI/ML
Are you an experienced machine learning researcher ready to push the limits of AI in one of the toughest domains—maritime autonomy? At Tocaro Blue, your expertise in designing, training, and deploying custom ML models will directly advance our foundational perception stack, ProteusCore .
As a , you will be the lead architect of Radar (and secondary EO/IR) models for object detection, semantic segmentation, and tracking. You’ll design algorithms capable of distinguishing vessels, land, shoreline constructions, wakes, and markers in dynamic maritime environments where .
Your Work Will Fuel Products Used By
This role is an opportunity to define the ML foundations of maritime autonomy—where perception evolves from situational awareness, to navigation assistance, to full autonomy.
What You’ll Pioneer
Core ML and Autonomy Innovation
What Sets You Apart
Essential Qualifications
Preferred Expertise
Why Tocaro Blue?
Competitive Compensation & Growth
Innovation-First Culture
Flexible Work Environment
Equal Opportunity & Eligibility
Tocaro Blue, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Individual offers are based are made based on skill and experience, geographic location, as well as role, responsibility, and leadership within the company, and other due diligence. Our hiring team will try to determine whether each candidate fits the job description and may choose, at their discretion, to redirect a candidate to another job offering that is more appropriate. All employees must be eligible to obtain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance. With few exceptions, this is restricted to U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents (a.k.a. current Green Card Holders). Tocaro Blue LLC is not able to sponsor work visas nor permanent resident cards ("green cards") for this role.