Orca AI

Head of Maritime Certification – Regulatory Strategy

Orca AI

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Anywhere in Europe

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Product Design AssessmentType ApprovalFMEAHAZIDHAZOPdata analysissafety case developmentrisk assessmenttechnology qualificationAI-driven systems
Soft Skills
facilitationdocumentationautonomycommunicationleadership