Marine Systems Engineer - Clearwater, FL

Role Overview 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