Hydrodynamics and Stability Lead

The ocean is the largest undeveloped frontier on earth — and the next chapter of abundant energy will be written at sea. We're building the infrastructure to power it.

About Ocean Atomics (OA)

Ocean Atomics is an American company designing, licensing, and building a standardized nuclear electric plant — and the systems around it — to power maritime applications. We will install these plants on vessels built to our nuclear-ready standards, and we will move fast by leveraging the compact, proven technology of water-cooled reactors.

Scaling atomic energy is the next chapter, and the open ocean is where we unlock it. We pioneer nuclear power at sea, tackling every step from design to deployment.

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.

Role Summary

The Hydrodynamics and Stability Lead commands the hydrodynamics, seakeeping, and stability architectures of Ocean Atomics’ floating energy platforms, driving the core naval architecture discipline required to secure class and regulatory approvals for our fleet. While other engineering branches define the internal machinery and structural foundations, this role holds ultimate accountability for how our platforms interact with the marine environment.

You will own the vessel's equilibrium, motion characteristics, and mooring dynamics from initial concept through full operational deployment. Your primary directive is to enforce rigid weight, center-of-gravity, and hydrodynamic margins to ensure that our conventional hull forms are natively pre-engineered to accept post-delivery nuclear payloads. By delivering survivable, highly reproducible, and modular hull designs optimized for extreme station-keeping, you guarantee absolute platform stability, eliminating buoyancy, mooring, and capsizing risk across the entire operational lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities

• Command Seakeeping and Stability Architectures: Lead the analysis and validation of intact and damage stability matrices, ensuring the platform complies with strict international maritime codes and utility-grade uptime mandates.

• Own Environmental Interaction Modeling: Direct advanced hull-wave interaction modeling, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, and model testing loops to predict platform behavior in extreme metocean conditions.

• Enforce Rigid Hydrodynamic and Mass Margins: Establish and safeguard strict center-of-gravity (CoG) limits, weight growth margins, and buoyancy reserves to accommodate heavy nuclear containment structures without compromising marine safety.

• Design Resilient Mooring and Station-Keeping Systems: Own the analytical design and dynamic simulation of station-keeping and mooring system architectures, ensuring the platform remains securely pinned across decades-long operational lifecycles.

• Support Class and Regulatory Technical Submissions: Author the technical stability booklets, hydrodynamic reports, and safety-at-sea documentation required to clear classification society gates and statutory regulatory reviews.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, or a strictly related fluid dynamics engineering discipline.

• Experience: 8+ years of experience specializing in marine hydrodynamics, stability engineering, or offshore mooring design for commercial vessels, semi-submersibles, or floating production assets.

• Technical Mastery: Deep proficiency in specialized naval architecture software (e.g., GHS, MOSES, WAMIT, ANSYS AQWA) alongside an authoritative understanding of intact/damage stability regulations (e.g., ABS, DNV, IMO).

• Leadership Posture: A precise, data-driven engineer who possesses total command over naval architecture physics, communicates technical risk with absolute clarity, and maintains analytical discipline under aggressive design schedules.

Why this matters

Every industry on Earth needs scalable, clean energy, and the ocean is the ideal place to unlock it. Joining Ocean Atomics means building real, lasting infrastructure — the kind that powers generations. The world needs abundant energy. Let's make it happen.

Ocean Atomics LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

We are committed to a workplace free of discrimination and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations; if you need an accommodation during the application process, contact info@oceanatomics.com.