About the Company
We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.
The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis.
About the Job
We are developing a core technology that will operate in the worst conditions the world's oceans have to offer for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. As a Senior Naval Architect, you will be responsible for the seaworthiness of our ocean-deployed systems from concept through to deployment and recovery. Your work will ensure these systems remain stable, reliable, and high-performing in the ocean's harshest conditions. You will ensure the systems we deploy in the ocean are engineered through the lens of naval architecture which will include initial trades, seakeeping and stability analyses, interfacing with external parties such as the Coast Guard, developing sea trial testing plans, and occasionally supporting deployments in the field. Your work will enable safe, reliable, and simple marine operations and system performance. We expect you to be especially strong in analysis and to gravitate toward first-principles, fundamental-physics approaches to problem-solving.
Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis. If you are an excellent engineer, regardless of your background, we want you to apply. Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, Bridgewater Associates, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. We are organized as a public benefit corporation and are backed by leading venture capital firms, private investors, philanthropic investors, and endowments.
We strive to be the best engineering team on the planet and we compensate our engineers accordingly.
Responsibilities
Additional Requirements
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
This position can be filled either full-time on-site or remotely with <25% travel time. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.
We are a renewable energy and ocean technology company committed to rapidly developing and deploying technologies that will ensure a sustainable future for Earth by unlocking the vast energy potential of its oceans. Our focus is on capturing civilizational levels of ultra-low-cost renewable energy for applications including computing and affordable renewable fuels delivered to shore.
The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in Portland, Oregon and backed by leading venture capitalists, philanthropic investors, university endowments, and private investment offices. We operate as an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis.
About the Job
We are developing a core technology that will operate in the worst conditions the world's oceans have to offer for years at a time without human maintenance or intervention. As a Senior Naval Architect, you will be responsible for the seaworthiness of our ocean-deployed systems from concept through to deployment and recovery. Your work will ensure these systems remain stable, reliable, and high-performing in the ocean's harshest conditions. You will ensure the systems we deploy in the ocean are engineered through the lens of naval architecture which will include initial trades, seakeeping and stability analyses, interfacing with external parties such as the Coast Guard, developing sea trial testing plans, and occasionally supporting deployments in the field. Your work will enable safe, reliable, and simple marine operations and system performance. We expect you to be especially strong in analysis and to gravitate toward first-principles, fundamental-physics approaches to problem-solving.
Candidates should have strong interpersonal skills and be able to thrive in a creative, scrappy, and collaborative environment in which the best ideas change the company's direction on a regular basis. If you are an excellent engineer, regardless of your background, we want you to apply. Our staff have worked at organizations such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke, Boeing, Virgin Orbit, Virgin Galactic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, New Relic, Bridgewater, Raytheon, Disney Imagineering, Bridgewater Associates, and the US Army and Air Force, as well as research universities, startups, and small companies across a range of industries. We are organized as a public benefit corporation and are backed by leading venture capital firms, private investors, philanthropic investors, and endowments.
We strive to be the best engineering team on the planet and we compensate our engineers accordingly.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the naval architecture focal for external communications with regulators, insurance partners, and marine surveyors.
- Perform stability and seakeeping analysis to support the Node and Marine Operations programs.
- Determine requirements for the Node program relating to stability, seakeeping, and marine operations.
- Operate cross functionally with the structural design team, marine operations team, and fluid dynamics team
- Develop Concepts of Operations for the Node and Marine Operations programs.
- Drive Node program strategies for corrosion mitigation and biofouling prevention.
- Drive Node program strategies for pressure vessel sealing, coatings, and reliability over long deployment durations.
- Develop and architect deployment and recovery engineering high-level design concepts.
- Create and review high-level engineering concepts and detailed mechanical designs, including fabrication drawings
- Lead and participate in design reviews with the internal team and interface with external fabricators and vendors.
- Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture or Marine Engineering.
- 5+ years of professional experience performing stability, seakeeping, and weights/balances analyses in a Naval Architecture role.
- Professional experience using vessel stability software (e.g. GHS, Maxsurf, Orca3D).
- Professional experience using a parametric CAD package (e.g. NX, Solidworks) to model parts, assemblies and generate drawings.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to provide guidance and technical material to engineers, designers, technicians, and suppliers, adeptly receiving and incorporating their guidance and technical information into your approach.
- Confidence working independently to drive a project forward.
- Experience using a high-end hydrodynamics analysis software package(s) to estimate vessel motions (e.g. Ansys AQWA, Maxsurf Motion, WAMIT).
- Proficiency with Orcaflex.
- 5+ years of 3D CAD modeling experience.
- Experience with NX/Teamcenter.
- Experience with finite element analysis (NX NASTRAN, FEMAP) software packages.
- Experience using Python, Julia, Mathematica, or another similar programming language for data review and analysis.
- Prior experience working in a marine environment and/or with marine vessels.
- Proficient and frequent user of hand calculations.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, self-starting, and demanding atmosphere.
- A curiosity to learn and a passion for continuous improvement.
- Solid understanding of technical projects from the details to the big picture.
- Strong interpersonal, organizational, and presentation skills.
Additional Requirements
- Travel to vendors and test sites as needed.
- Intermittently able to work longer hours and weekends to support critical needs. While we expect a lot of each other, we also offer a high degree of autonomy and work-life balance, including unlimited PTO and flexible working hours.
If hired for this full-time role, you will receive:
- Cash compensation of $175,000-225,000
- Equity in the company. We're all owners and if we're successful, this equity should be far and away the most valuable component of your compensation.
- A benefits package that helps you take care of yourself and your family, including:
- Flexible paid time off
- Health insurance (the company pays 100% of gold level PPO plan for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
- Dental insurance (the company pays 33% for full time employees and 100% for their partners and dependents)
- Vision insurance (the company pays 100% for full time employees, their partners, and dependents)
- Disability insurance (the company pays 100% for a policy to provide long term financial support if you become disabled)
- Ability to contribute to tax-advantaged accounts, including 401(k), health FSA, and dependent care FSA
- Relocation assistance to facilitate your move to Portland (if needed).
This position can be filled either full-time on-site or remotely with <25% travel time. Our offices, lab, and shop are located in Portland, Oregon.