Head of Maritime Certification – Regulatory Strategy

🕒 March 18

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Orca AI

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🔒 Cybersecurity

Transportation • AI • Cybersecurity

Orca AI is a technology company revolutionizing the maritime industry through its innovative solutions for autonomous shipping. Their products, like SeaPod and FleetView, enhance crew situational awareness and operational safety, utilizing advanced computer vision and AI to automate lookouts and provide real-time insights. By improving navigational decision-making, Orca AI aims to increase safety and efficiency in shipping operations while helping companies achieve sustainability goals.

📋 Description

• Personally author and manage the technical dossiers for Product Design Assessments (PDA) and Type Approvals across DNV, ABS, LR, BV, and ClassNK. • Facilitate and document FMEA, HAZID, and HAZOP workshops, turning raw engineering data into structured, defensible safety arguments. • Work deep within the product cycle to map SOLAS, COLREG, and IACS UR E27 requirements into specific design specs and JIRA tickets. • Hands-on collection and analysis of sea-trial data to build "equivalent safety" cases for AI-driven systems. • Maintain the "Live" certification state of our fleet, ensuring every software release stays within the "Certified" envelope.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ Years of "In the Trenches" Experience: You have a proven track record within a Classification Society or a maritime tech company, specifically focused on Bridge Systems or Navigation Technologies. • Direct PDA & Type Approval Success: You have personally led at least 2–3 complex systems through the full Product Design Assessment (PDA) or Type Approval lifecycle from start to finish. • Rule Mastery (Hands-on Application): You don't just know IMO, SOLAS, and COLREGs exist; you have written safety cases that interpret these rules for novel technologies. • Risk Assessment Facilitation: You are an expert at running HAZID/FMEA sessions and can translate technical failure modes into regulatory risk profiles. • Autonomy & AI Exposure (Strongly Preferred): Experience navigating Technology Qualification frameworks for AI-enabled or autonomous systems (MASS).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary