Engineering · Full-time · On-site at customers (mainly the Setouchi area); no relocation — work locally. No commuting to the Roppongi office or attendance at the morning team meeting is required.
Shipbuilding Domain Expert (Ship Design · Work Locally)
Turn your ship-design expertise into an AI-era edge — without uprooting your life — at the core of AI × design.
- 船舶設計
- 船殻・艤装
- NAPA / AVEVA / CADMATIC
- 船級対応
- 造船×AI
What you'll do
- [Phase 1: On-site deployment] Work on-site at major customers, driving the adoption and day-to-day use of the AI agent "Noah"
- Interview the customer's design and production teams and feed requirements back into the product
- Support sales meetings alongside the CEO on the technical side (grounding proposals in real practice, estimating effort and cost-effectiveness, spotting seeds for follow-on work)
- [Phase 2: Building the in-house design team (after deployment)] Take on design work itself as a core member of an in-house team that delivers design services together with AI
- Inject design knowledge into the product — reviewing AI output and building ground-truth data
Must-haves
- 10+ years of design-related work (basic design, detail design, production design, drawing review, etc.) at a member shipyard of the Shipbuilders' Association of Japan or the Cooperative Association of Japan Shipbuilders, a ship design subcontractor, a classification society, or a government agency
- A track record of going further than most people would, and the ability to explain the circumstances and your own decisions concretely (any field)
- Experience seeing something through in an unreasonable situation, or breaking through after being turned down repeatedly
- Experience building trust single-handedly with a first-time client or a senior counterpart on site
- Experience owning one client or project end to end as the person responsible
Nice to have
- Basic-to-detail design experience in hull structure, outfitting, machinery, or electrical
- Experience coordinating with production design and the shop floor (hull construction, outfitting work)
- Experience with classification societies (drawing approval, survey attendance)
- Hands-on experience with CAD tools (NAPA / AVEVA / CADMATIC, etc.)
- Interest in AI tools (no prior experience required)
Our strengths
- Industry focus — all-in on shipbuilding, compounding deep domain knowledge
- AI-agent native — built for real-world adoption, not PoC theater
- Speed & flexibility — a startup's agility and execution
- Social impact — solving skill succession × shorter build times
Who we're looking for
- Questions how things are done today, has ideas for improvement, and senses that change might come easier from a position slightly outside
- Enters the customer's workplace with respect and drives change grounded in real operations
- Finds 0→1 in the most under-digitized giant industry genuinely exciting
- Someone who has an episode in their life that most people would not go through. Any field.
- Someone who has seen things through in unreasonable situations, or broken through after being turned down repeatedly
Terms & employment
Full-time (3-month probation). Full flextime / remote OK. Location: On-site at customers (mainly the Setouchi area); no relocation — work locally. No commuting to the Roppongi office or attendance at the morning team meeting is required. (relocating near Ōmori in 2027). Stock options available.
Why this role
Work from your home region — no Tokyo relocation, and this is not a sales role. Your design knowledge is not what AI replaces: you teach AI the right answers and carry out design work together with it, later becoming a founding member of our in-house AI × design team.
Let's just talk first.
We start with a casual chat, not a formal screening. Reach out if this role interests you.
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