# Asymmetric Upside Engineering

Asymmetric Upside Engineering We are looking to hire a part-time mechanical engineer to pursue asymmetric-upside designs. We have numerous engineering projects that have the potential to dramatically add value to Voltic, and thus shipping as a whole. However, the current team doesn’t have the bandwidth to pursue all of them at a high fidelity level. You would own one of these projects. These are ambitious projects that are extremely high-upside. We have done the initial work proving they are physically and economically possible. However, this is novel engineering. You would be starting with something at (roughly) TRL 3. The goal would be to progress it to (roughly) TRL 6. This will mostly consist of refining designs and building initial prototypes. Example Projects Port infrastructure to enable large vessels to call shallow-water ports Semi-autonomous routing of Voltic vessels Novel hull designs to substantially reduce weight & drag 3D printing vessel hulls Core responsibilities Lead the design, analysis and prototyping of asymmetric upside engineering projects Conduct analyses of such systems to ensure survivability in the maritime environment Create and maintain technical drawing

- **Id**: 479595
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/voltic-asymmetric-upside-engineering>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-06T15:57:26Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T10:01:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 70
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3506
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Sea Freight

## Company

- **Id**: 20398
- **Name**: Voltic
- **Domain**: volticshipping.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/voltic>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 112000
- **Max usd**: 231000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 105

## Technologies

- **Abaqus** — Optional: no
- **ANSYS** — Optional: no
- **Fusion 360** — Optional: no
- **SolidWorks** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 70

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-06T15:57:26Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.272
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 69
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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