Senior Hydrodynamics Engineer

REGENT, North Kingstown, Rhode Island

The role

As a Senior Hydrodynamics Engineer, you will lead the design, analysis, test, and certification of the Seaglider hydrofoil system. You will draw on analytical, empirical, and advanced computational methods to develop models of hull-sailing, hydrofoiling, takeoff, and landing. You will use these models to analyze vehicle dynamics, stability, and control, and to set operating limitations.

Many of these problems are highly coupled. You will know how to simplify them, when to apply deeper analytical rigor, and how to arrive at the most cost-effective solution, and then you'll test to prove it works.

As part of the Vehicle Sciences team, you'll join a group of driven, collaborative engineers who hold a high bar, move quickly, and think boldly to bring entirely new technology into the world.

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Senior Hydrodynamics Engineer

REGENT, North Kingstown, Rhode Island

The role

As part of the Vehicle Sciences team, you'll join a group of driven, collaborative engineers who hold a high bar, move quickly, and think boldly to bring entirely new technology into the world.

What you need

What we're looking for

Multiphase CFD: Expert with a commercial or open-source free-surface solver, including meshing, turbulence and multiphase modeling choices, and solution verification.
Validation: You have compared CFD to experiment on a real vehicle, found where it was wrong, and fixed the model. You know the difference between converged and correct.
Model Building: You have built reduced-order models from high-fidelity results that a simulation or controls team used.
Lifting Surfaces: Solid grounding in foil hydrodynamics, and working knowledge of low- and mid-fidelity tools (panel, lifting-line, vortex-lattice), with the judgment to know when they suffice and when CFD is needed.
Automation: Strong Python or MATLAB scripting on Linux/HPC. You automate geometry, meshing, and post-processing rather than click through them.
Experiments: You have designed or run validation experiments (tow tank, wind tunnel, or on-vehicle test) and worked with real instrumentation data.
Experience: Ideally M.S. or Ph.D. in Aerospace, Mechanical, Ocean, or Naval Engineering (or equivalent), with industry experience of applied fluid dynamics experience beyond the degree.
Mentorship: Experience developing junior engineers or students.

Who we're looking for

Collaborative Team Player: You believe that great things happen when teams work together. You communicate effectively with structures, controls, test, and design engineers, and you make sure your results land in a form the next team can use.
Creative Problem Solver: You thrive on tackling complex physics with incomplete data. Whether it's a ventilated foil touchdown or a hull slamming into a wave, you find the right fidelity for the question and get to a defensible answer.
Adaptable & Agile: In a fast-paced, ever-evolving startup environment, you move between hydro CFD, hand calculations, simulator modeling, and test support as priorities shift, and you keep progress going without missing a beat.
Innovative Mindset: You're driven by curiosity and a passion for building things that haven't existed before. You continuously improve the team's tools, workflows, and standards for verification.

Senior Hydrodynamics Engineer

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Senior Hydrodynamics Engineer

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