This role serves as the
technical authority for hull platform evaluation, integration, and design validation across multiple vessel classes (e.g., monohulls and catamarans).
The engineer will ensure that vendor-designed hulls meet
structural, hydrodynamic, and system integration requirements, while also supporting manufacturability and long-term scalability.
This is not just a design role—you are responsible for ensuring the
hull works as part of the full system.
Key Responsibilities- Lead technical evaluation of hull platforms across multiple craft types
- Identify and resolve:
- Design risks
- Gaps
- Non-compliance issues in vendor designs
- Review and challenge:
- Stability analyses
- Structural designs
- Resistance and powering calculations
- Accommodation layouts
- Define and enforce requirements for:
- Propulsion systems
- Payloads
- Sensors and antennas
- Maintenance access
- Ensure hull designs support full system integration with:
- Electrical systems
- Autonomy systems
- Mission systems
- Provide design-for-manufacturing (DFM) input:
- Geometry
- Structure
- Sectioning strategies
- Evaluate:
- Structural loading conditions
- Real-world operational stresses
- Define platform-level acceptance criteria (with Test & Evaluation)
- Assess operational limits:
- Sea state capability
- Speed envelope
- Stability constraints
- Drive decisions when vendor recommendations conflict with system needs
Required Qualifications- Degree in:
- Naval Architecture
- Marine / Ocean Engineering
- Related field
- 5+ years in marine platform design or design review
- Mandatory: Experience with multihull or catamaran design
- Strong ability to review:
- Structural drawings
- Stability analyses
- Hull layouts
- Experience with tools such as:
- Maxsurf
- Rhino
- ShipConstructor (or similar)
- Experience reviewing vendor/third-party designs