Jobs at General Matter, Inc.

Own full-cycle technical recruiting for hardware engineering, manufacturing, nuclear, and operational roles. Partner with hiring managers, develop creative sourcing strategies, assess candidates, manage interview processes, deliver strong candidate experiences, analyze recruiting metrics, maintain ATS accuracy, and support university recruiting and process improvement. The role is fully onsite in Los Angeles and requires recruiting expertise in specialized engineering or hard-tech talent markets.

Owns manufacturing and production program visibility, operating rhythms, schedules, dashboards, executive updates, and engineering processes. Partners with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to track priorities, dependencies, risks, and follow-ups; standardizes workflows and drives execution in a fast-paced, regulated nuclear energy environment.

Design and implement motor, drive, and motion-control algorithms for uranium-enrichment systems. Develop control-oriented models, estimation and monitoring algorithms, and integrate, test, debug, and calibrate controls across simulation, bench, and deployed hardware. Collaborate with power electronics, firmware, mechanical, and systems teams; support stability validation through SIL and HIL tools, technical documentation, commissioning, and system improvements.

Design and build test fixtures and instrumented setups for mechanical, thermal, vibration, shock, durability, and materials testing of precision optomechanical enrichment hardware. Develop and execute qualification plans, collect and analyze test data, investigate failures, document results, and partner with engineering teams on corrective actions and design improvements.

Design, build, test, and own precision mechanical structures and optomechanical systems for uranium enrichment technology. Responsibilities include material and coating selection, design optimization, qualification testing, alignment and beam stability testing, root-cause analysis, and cross-functional system integration. The role requires applying mechanical engineering fundamentals and materials expertise to hardware exposed to demanding thermal, chemical, optical, and mechanical conditions in a fast-paced environment.

Leads the Paducah uranium enrichment plant from construction and commissioning through full operations. Responsibilities include staffing and developing the workforce, establishing safety and performance culture, overseeing operations, maintenance, engineering, regulatory compliance, and business functions, managing NRC authorization activities, setting production and financial strategies, and coordinating with regulators, customers, community stakeholders, and corporate leadership.

Lead the company’s IT function, overseeing enterprise platforms, core infrastructure, systems administration, security, uptime, scalability, monitoring, automation, and change management. Partner with engineering and business teams to design, deploy, support, and improve resilient IT systems. Establish standards and best practices, troubleshoot mission-critical environments, and manage Windows, authentication, networking, virtualization, and automation technologies.

Design, build, commission, and improve automated manufacturing equipment, including robotic systems, feed lines, assembly stations, PLCs, HMIs, and motion-control systems. Troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and software issues; develop documentation and control logic; and collaborate with Manufacturing, Engineering, and Supply Chain to deploy reliable, safe, repeatable production automation.

Support supplier sourcing, qualification, purchasing, material planning, inventory management, and supplier performance tracking for uranium enrichment hardware. Analyze pricing, lead times, availability, costs, and procurement data while coordinating with engineering, manufacturing, operations, finance, and suppliers. Assist with RFQs, supplier onboarding, procurement documentation, and sourcing alternatives for mechanical, electrical, and specialty components.

Assist in developing safety-critical embedded software and low-level firmware for industrial enrichment systems. Support actuator control, high-speed sensor processing, fault-tolerant logic, control architectures, automated testing, hardware integration, debugging, and system commissioning. Work cross-functionally with electrical, controls, software, nuclear, chemical, and manufacturing engineers. Use laboratory instrumentation to troubleshoot real-world embedded systems and contribute to reliable production equipment.

Administer the company’s document control and records management programs to ensure compliance with NRC 10 CFR Part 70 requirements. Maintain document integrity, version control, metadata, approvals, retention schedules, and controlled-document registers. Partner with Quality, Operations, and Engineering, support audits and NRC inspections, improve procedures, and evaluate automation tools for document routing and retention. Serve as the records custodian and ensure accurate record disposition.

Design and operate high-throughput data pipelines, streaming services, time-series storage, and industrial data historians for sensor telemetry in test and production systems. Ensure reliable ingestion without data loss, define data architecture and schema standards, improve operational reliability, and support visualization and analytics teams. The role includes debugging, root cause analysis, engineering standards, and collaboration across controls, test automation, and visualization functions in safety-critical, 24/7 environments.

Supports business development through customer and partner coordination, pipeline and contract tracking, meeting preparation, action-item follow-up, proposal and briefing-material development, and cross-functional collaboration with legal, engineering, finance, and leadership. The intern also helps organize customer visits and conferences, improve commercial processes, and maintain accurate business development records while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced onsite environment.

Manage and scale General Matter’s IT infrastructure and Microsoft enterprise platforms. Responsibilities include systems administration, infrastructure design and deployment, uptime, security, performance optimization, automation, monitoring, change control, documentation, troubleshooting, and collaboration with engineers, business units, vendors, and management. The role supports physical and virtual Windows environments, authentication systems, networking, and mission-critical enterprise systems.

Design and maintain high-performance real-time dashboards, HMI/SCADA interfaces, streaming UIs, and post-processing tools for high-throughput sensor telemetry. Define visualization architecture, rendering standards, testing practices, and operational best practices. Collaborate with data platform, controls, and test automation teams while debugging and optimizing the full rendering-to-data stack in safety-critical, 24/7 environments.

Own and drive manufacturing operational workstreams, including procurement, vendor management, security and compliance coordination, facilities logistics, construction buildout logistics, documentation, and data hygiene. Track progress, resolve blockers, maintain status updates, automate repetitive tasks using AI, and coordinate with Operations, Engineering, Security, and Supply Chain to ensure timely execution.

Develop safety-critical embedded firmware to control electromechanical systems: implement low-level C/C++/Rust code, design control/state machines and data acquisition, debug with lab instruments, perform safety analyses, and support system bring-up and production deployment.

Lead the architecture and development of safety-critical embedded software for industrial systems. Build low-level firmware in C/C++ and Rust, control actuators, process sensor data, develop fault-tolerant control logic, and create automated validation infrastructure. Manage and mentor a small engineering team while partnering with multidisciplinary teams on hardware integration, safety analysis, troubleshooting, commissioning, and production deployment.

Lead and grow General Matter’s Applied AI team, set technical direction and priorities, remain hands-on in architecture and implementation, and partner with engineering teams across licensing, safety, design, and manufacturing. Build AI-driven tools using LLMs, agents, RAG, and related techniques to accelerate engineering workflows. Establish scalable processes for experimentation, evaluation, production handoff, and team development while communicating progress and tradeoffs to leadership.

Own hardware reliability through accelerated life, component, and reliability demonstration testing. Develop test plans, determine sample sizes and durations, analyze life and field data, conduct Weibull and statistical analyses, and lead failure investigations. Build reliability models including FMEA/FMECA, fault trees, and reliability block diagrams. Partner with test, design, manufacturing, and quality teams to drive corrective actions, design-for-reliability practices, reliability metrics, and a scalable reliability test capability.