Marine Electrical Lead

Ocean Atomics

23h•$150,000 - $235,000

About The Position

Ocean Atomics is an American company designing, licensing, and assembling a standardized nuclear electric power plant and the surrounding support systems for maritime applications. We will install these plants on any vessel built to our nuclear-ready standards, and will provide end-to-end sustainment in our planned nuclear lifecycle dockyard. We will help develop the licensed operators to unlock this new capability for your energy intensive application at sea. To move fast and to lead the creation of this new market, we are leveraging the compact, proven systems enabled by water-cooled reactors. Our mission Scale nuclear energy. Power generations. Our vision A maritime commons thriving with abundant, economical, modern, and safe nuclear-powered activity — built, serviced, and staffed by re-industrialized American shipyards and people. As Electrical Lead, you lead the engineering of the high-voltage (greater than 1000 V) and low-voltage (no more than 1000 V) distribution, power management, and grid-synchronization systems for the vessels that carry Ocean Atomics' nuclear electric plant: the generation busses, switchboards, load centers, and power panels, and protection networks that prepare the platform side for plant integration. You're responsible for how power is generated, distributed, and protected across the vessel and out to onshore utility grids, from initial concept through class and flag-state approval, working closely with marine engineering, naval architecture, and our nuclear integration team. The electrical interfaces you design become the boundary that lets the plant tie in cleanly, and you'll establish the electrical baseline every vessel that carries our plant is engineered against. The ideal candidate treats electrical safety as non-negotiable while still finding ways to compress the design cycle, and can hold a clean interface boundary without turning it into a bureaucratic one.

Requirements

Bachelor's or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Marine Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Track record leading system-level marine electrical design from concept through deployment. Typically built over 8+ years of focused work in marine electrical systems, industrial power systems, high-voltage offshore distribution, or comparable regulated power systems. Depth of experience, design cycles, and successful leadership of major electrical projects is valued above years of experience.
Working command of high-voltage power generation, switchgear specification, and protective relay coordination.
Working knowledge of classification society electrical rules (ABS, LR, etc.), flag state regulatory processes (USCG, etc.), and marine electrical codes (IEEE 45, IEC, SOLAS).

Nice To Haves

Experience with grid-synchronization and marine-to-shore power transmission.
Familiarity with medium- and low-voltage switchgear specification across AC and DC architectures.
Cross-functional experience partnering with marine engineering and naval architecture teams on integrated designs.

Responsibilities

Lead the engineering of high-voltage and low-voltage AC and DC distribution, power management, and grid-synchronization systems from initial layout through deployment.
Design the main generation busses, switchboards, load centers, transformers, and protection networks so they're designed for plant integration from the start, not retrofitted.
Design the distribution systems and emergency power system.
Integrate into the power distribution system large loads (e.g. propulsion motors and associated drives).
Where needed, determine requirements for, and integrate energy storage systems into the power system.
Establish the electrical interface standards and protection coordination that let our nuclear electric plant tie into the platform cleanly.
Develop modular, reproducible power distribution configurations that reduce shipyard fabrication complexity and downstream assembly risk.
Design and validate the marine-to-shore electrical equipment and control protocols that transfer power to onshore utility grids safely and stably.
Perform endurance fuel calculations.
Run load-flow, short-circuit, voltage drop, harmonic current, dynamic response, stability, black-out recovery, in-rush current, quality of service, and protective relay coordination studies before steel cutting begins.
Ensure the design adequately addresses common mode voltages and currents; Ensure the electrical distribution system is electromagnetically compatible with itself and other ship systems.
Ensure the electric plant control system is designed using the ship’s cybersecurity framework.
Determine equipment design requirements to minimize maintenance and repair costs.
Conduct supporting analysis to calculate annual operating costs.
Generate the single-line diagrams, load analyses, and technical data packages that clear classification society (ABS, LR, etc.) and flag state (USCG, etc.) reviews, built to 46 CFR, IEEE Std. 45 series, IEC (where needed), IMO (including SOLAS and MARPOL), and relevant marine electrical codes.