Full-Time
Naval Architect
Marine Engineer
Fleetzero
11-50 employees
Electric cargo ships with autonomous operation
Compensation Overview
$120k - $157k/yr
Houston, TX, USA
In Person
Intermittent travel to customer and vendor sites.
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- Education: Bachelor's degree in Naval Architecture, Marine Engineering, or a related field
- Experience: At least 3 years in naval architecture, with hands-on experience producing ship design drawings
- Technical Expertise: Expert in hull design, hydrodynamics, stability, and propulsion systems, with a focus on optimizing efficiency and performance
- Advanced proficiency in AutoCAD, Rhino3D, or equivalent CAD tools
- Regulatory Knowledge: Strong understanding of maritime regulations and submittal processes, with the ability to ensure designs meet certification standards
- Ability to travel and visit customer and vendor sites, including shipyards and vessels
- All roles are expected to include intermittent or occasional travel as the business needs
- Design vessel systems, including auxiliary, propulsion, structures, and layouts to maximize energy efficiency and performance
- Perform stability, mechanical, and structural analyses to ensure seaworthiness and compliance with class and port state rules
- Work closely with other engineers, naval architecture firms, detailed design shops, and shipyard teams to translate designs into reality, iterating based on real-world feedback
- Push the boundaries of vessel design by integrating advanced technologies such as air lubrication, advanced hull coatings, hull appendage modification, novel structures, heel compensation devices, and novel shafting and propeller arrangements
- Contribute to advanced hull designs focusing on hull efficiency and advanced technologies to reduce viscous and wave-making resistance
- Contribute to novel vessel structure and construction techniques
- P.E. in naval architecture, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering
- Tow tank experience
- Theoretical knowledge of vessel powering requirements
- Knowledge of published literature on hull resistance
- FEA experience
- Hands-on fabrication experience (preferably directly related to model testing, but any hands on experience that would develop shop floor fluency)
Fleetzero builds a fleet of electric cargo ships powered by a proprietary Marine Battery System to move goods in a cleaner way. They focus on smaller vessels built in domestic shipyards and designed to operate in regulated markets, enabling access to ports larger ships miss. The ships can operate autonomously, reducing crew and maintenance costs while allowing rapid battery upgrades as tech improves. The goal is to provide affordable, low-emission shipping without a green premium, transforming logistics toward sustainable, closer-to-market delivery.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$59.6M
Headquarters
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Founded
2021
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $43M Series A from Obvious Ventures funds Houston facility to 3 GWh.
- Glosten partnership designs world's longest-range hybrid vessel.
- Tested on Pacific Joule, deployed globally on commercial ships.
What critics are saying
- Maersk Growth investment enables in-house propulsion in 12-24 months.
- LFP battery prices spike 30-50% erodes no-green-premium in 6-18 months.
- Wärtsilä undercuts pricing with superior supply chains in 12-24 months.
What makes Fleetzero unique
- Leviathan propulsion delivers 3.8 MWh in 25% container footprint.
- Battery swapping enables Pacific crossings with standard port gear.
- Modular hulls built economically in domestic US shipyards.
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6 month growth
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↓ -5%Fleetzero, a marine technology company building hybrid and electric propulsion systems for ships, has raised $43 million in Series A funding led by Obvious Ventures. Maersk Growth and 8090 Industries joined as new investors, alongside existing backers including Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Y Combinator. The Houston-based startup will use the capital to expand manufacturing of its Leviathan propulsion system, which can be retrofitted onto existing vessels or installed in new ships. The company has opened a new manufacturing and R&D facility with initial capacity of 300 MWh per year, planning to scale to three GWh annually over five years. Fleetzero's system aims to reduce total ownership costs through maintenance and fuel savings whilst enabling marine autonomy. The company positions electrification as an opportunity to revitalise US shipbuilding.
Fleetzero, a developer and manufacturer of modular propulsion platforms for hybrid and electric ships, has selected Glosten, a Seattle-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm, to design what is expected to be the world's longest-range hybrid electric vessel.
Cost-effectively decarbonizing the shipping industry
Fleetzero is working to develop marine battery systems that offer higher density, low cost, and a high level of safety.
Birmingham, AL – According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fleetzero is raising $16,463,983.00 in new funding. Sources indicate as part of senior management President and Chief Executive Officer, Steven Henderson played a key role in securing the recent investment and it will aid in aggressively expanding the company, as well as broaden and accelerate product development. About Fleetzero