Naval Architect

Naval Architect

Location: Chennai, India

Experience: 12+ years

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a place where you’ll be empowered to shape your career, supported by a collaborative global community, and inspired to reimagine what’s possible. Join us in helping transform maritime operations through intelligent digital twin platforms that drive real-time insights and sustainable innovation.

Your Role

About the Role

Lead the naval architectural aspects of ship-level and fleet-level digital twin initiatives by defining physical-model requirements, validating hydrodynamic and structural models, and ensuring the digital twin accurately represents vessel performance across design, operation, and maintenance phases.

Key responsibilities

• Model requirements and scope: Define the naval-architecture scope for digital twins (hull form, hydrostatics, resistance & powering, seakeeping, maneuvering, structural load cases, trim & stability, intact/damage stability).
• Data & telemetry specification: Specify required measured signals, sensor placement, sampling rates, metadata semantics, and accuracy/tolerance for telemetry feeding physics and ML models.
• Model validation and calibration: Validate, calibrate and benchmark CFD, seakeeping, resistance, and structural finite-element models against sea trials, towing tank data, operational logs and surveys.
• Performance analytics: Define KPIs and algorithms for fuel consumption, hull fouling impact, powering curves, speed-powering uncertainty, and trim/ballast optimization.
• Integration with engineering teams: Translate naval-architecture results into data and software requirements for data engineers, modelers, and dev teams; review model assumptions and unit conventions.
• Acceptance testing and QA: Create acceptance tests, verification procedures and fidelity thresholds for physics-based modules; own sign-off criteria for naval-architecture components.
• Failure-mode & scenario catalog: Develop structural and operational scenario catalogs (fatigue, slamming, grounding, icing, flooding) with failure-mode signatures for simulation and anomaly detection.
• Operational support: Support commissioning and sea trials, interpret twin outputs for technical superintendents and crew, and advise on recommended operational interventions.
• Regulatory & class liaison: Ensure model scope and outputs respect relevant classification society guidance, statutory stability requirements and survey constraints.
• Knowledge transfer: Prepare technical documentation, run workshops for ship staff and shore teams, and produce training materials that translate naval-architecture concepts into operational actions.

Your Profile

Required qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Naval Architecture, Ocean Engineering, Marine Engineering or closely related discipline.
• Experience: 12+ years practical naval-architecture experience covering ship hydrodynamics, resistance & powering, seakeeping, stability and structural load analysis.
• Modeling background: Hands-on experience with CFD, seakeeping tools, hydrostatic calculations, powering regression, or structural FE methods and interpretation of results.
• Experience in Sustainability or Energy or Utility Monitoring in Maritime industry
• Experience in Sea and Onshore Travel Logistics, and able to understand relevant use cases
• Experience in enterprise application development/maintenance for Marine domain
• Sea trials familiarity: Direct involvement in planning, executing and analysing sea trials, tank tests, inclining experiments or full-scale trials.
• Data mindset: Comfortable working with telemetry, time-series data, data quality issues, and translating physical models into measurable signals.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication; able to explain technical assumptions to product, data and operations teams.

Preferred skills and certifications

• Experience implementing or contributing to digital twin, predictive maintenance, performance monitoring or fleet optimisation programs.
• Familiarity with maritime data and industrial protocols (NMEA, IEC standards) and sensor types relevant to naval architecture (speed logs, GPS, shaft torque, draft, accelerometers, strain gauges).
• Practical knowledge of programming or scripting (Python) for data analysis and model validation.
• Class society engagement experience and understanding of SOLAS/MARPOL stability and structural survey implications.
• Professional registration or chartership where applicable.

What You’ll Love About Working Here

We value flexibility and support our employees with hybrid work options and adaptable schedules to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Our inclusive culture brings together diverse professionals committed to growth, innovation, and excellence.

You’ll have access to continuous learning opportunities and leadership pathways in backend engineering and digital twin technologies.

About Us

At Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help the world’s most innovative companies unleash their potential. From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries. Join us for a career full of opportunities. Where you can make a difference. Where no two days are the same.