Marine Propulsion Lead

Ocean Atomics

8d • $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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Track record leading system-level propulsion design from concept through deployment. Typically built over 8+ years of focused work in maritime propulsion, heavy machinery design, or comparable regulated platform work. Depth of experience, design cycles, and successful leadership of major propulsion projects is valued above years of experience.
• Working command of classification society machinery rules (ABS, LR, etc.) and flag state regulatory processes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with highly-regulated vessel propulsion systems.
• Background in modular ship design or repeatable fabrication processes.
• Cross-functional experience partnering with naval architecture and structural teams on integrated designs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering of propulsion machinery, mechanical shafting, and thruster systems from initial layout through deployment.
• Design the integration of prime movers, reduction gears, steering systems, and auxiliary transit networks so they're designed for plant integration from the start, not retrofitted.
• Establish the mechanical interface standards and alignment tolerances that let our nuclear electric plant integrate cleanly into the platform.
• Develop modular, reproducible propulsion configurations that reduce shipyard fabrication complexity and downstream assembly risk.
• Run torsional vibration analyses, shaft alignment modeling, and hydrodynamic boundary assessments before steel cutting begins.
• Generate the mechanical schematics, calculations, and technical data packages that clear classification society (ABS, LR, etc.) and statutory flag state (USCG, etc.) reviews.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior