Jobs at Kairos Power

The Director of FP&A will build and lead the financial planning function, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial modeling, performance reporting, and operating metrics. The role partners with executives and functional leaders, supports fundraising and investor communications, improves financial systems and reporting processes, and develops a high-performing FP&A team. The position is onsite in Alameda, California, with travel up to 5%.

Leads enterprise tax strategy, compliance, reporting, and monetization of federal and state incentives, including clean energy, advanced nuclear, and R&D credits. Advises executives on transactions, investments, expansion, and tax risk while overseeing income, partnership, sales and use, property, and operational taxes. Builds scalable processes, controls, technology, and a tax team supporting SOX and IPO readiness. Manages advisors, audits, filings, and cross-functional tax initiatives.

Develops and maintains technical requirements, system architectures, interfaces, verification strategies, and traceability for advanced nuclear energy systems. Coordinates multidisciplinary technical reviews, system integration, change-impact assessments, and technical risk management. Collaborates with engineering, licensing, quality, operations, suppliers, and external partners while mentoring engineers and improving systems engineering processes. Periodic work may occur in laboratory, manufacturing, testing, or industrial environments, with travel up to 10%.

Supports hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure across corporate, engineering, manufacturing, laboratory, and datacenter environments. Responsibilities include networking, compute, servers, endpoints, identity, cloud services, Infrastructure as Code, automation, troubleshooting, monitoring, documentation, incident response, migrations, and infrastructure projects. The role collaborates with security, engineering, manufacturing, facilities, vendors, and business teams while improving infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

Designs, builds, tests, and troubleshoots electrochemical sensors, electrolytic cells, and molten fluoride salt systems. Analyzes electrochemical signals and data, supports equipment commissioning, investigates failures, develops test procedures, and collaborates with chemistry, materials, mechanical, electrical, and process engineering teams. The role involves hands-on laboratory and pilot-scale work with high-temperature molten salts, corrosion analysis, beryllium-containing materials, safety controls, and technical reporting.

Develops and improves reactor construction and integration work packages, translating engineering requirements into executable field instructions. Establishes build readiness, supports technicians during hands-on assembly, troubleshoots nonconformances, verifies as-built conditions, and manages configuration traceability. The role coordinates engineering, manufacturing, quality, and operations teams, supports scheduling, risk mitigation, change management, and continuous improvement, and uses approved AI tools to improve work instructions and field execution.

Leads quality assurance assessments across hardware design, testing, manufacturing, construction, and operations. Develops quality plans and procedures, evaluates compliance and effectiveness, drives corrective and preventive actions, improves the quality management system, communicates findings to leadership, and mentors quality engineers. Requires cross-functional collaboration and occasional hands-on hardware work in prototyping and industrial environments, with travel up to 25%.

Owns the integrated master execution schedule for reactor builds and administers the Last Planner process. Coordinates personnel, materials, facilities, engineering readiness, quality, tooling, and work-package constraints. Identifies risks, resolves dependencies, evaluates sequencing alternatives, and improves schedule performance. The role collaborates across construction, engineering, supply chain, quality, testing, and leadership while using AI-enabled tools for status synthesis, scenario analysis, reporting, and planning improvements.

Build and integrate AI-enabled applications and workflows for reactor construction, testing, fueling, and operations. Responsibilities include developing RAG pipelines, integrating APIs and enterprise systems, troubleshooting application and data-flow issues, validating outputs, monitoring deployed tools, implementing testing and observability, and collaborating with operations, engineering, Enterprise AI, Infosec, and IT teams. The role also prototypes solutions with field users and helps non-software engineers develop lightweight tools.

Develop and maintain scientific and engineering software in Python and C++, including numerical algorithms and computational modeling. Own software architecture, CI/CD, packaging, artifact delivery, containerization, quality assurance, and reproducible releases. Support HPC workflows using Slurm, MPI, GPUs, and Open OnDemand. Establish engineering standards, conduct design and code reviews, mentor engineers, diagnose complex software issues, and collaborate with nuclear engineers and computational scientists.

Designs, implements, commissions, and troubleshoots instrumentation, controls, electrical, and automation systems for TRISO fuel fabrication. Responsibilities include selecting instrumentation and controls equipment, developing technical documentation, interpreting P&IDs and control narratives, supporting installation and testing, analyzing system performance, coordinating with vendors and engineering teams, and participating in safety reviews. The role also supports process optimization and startup in hazardous, regulated manufacturing environments.

Participates in on-the-job training supporting electrical and electromechanical process equipment operations. Responsibilities include assembling, installing, wiring, calibrating, testing, troubleshooting, maintaining, and operating laboratory and engineering equipment. The role supports instrumentation, controls, data collection, facility operations, safety procedures, and engineering test activities in a hands-on shop and lab environment. No prior experience is required, but Skillbridge participation is mandatory.

Design, build, commission, optimize, and operate first-of-a-kind mechanical and process equipment for TRISO annular fuel production. Responsibilities include engineering calculations, equipment integration, automation opportunities, safety and design reviews, root-cause investigations, vendor coordination, documentation, project management, and mentoring. The role supports hazardous and radiological manufacturing environments and requires collaboration across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, operations, quality, and EHS teams.

Administer and optimize cloud, on-premises, SaaS, and hybrid enterprise infrastructure. Manage Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, AWS, identity, networking, security controls, patching, and monitoring. Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and PowerShell. Support enterprise applications, integrations, upgrades, deployments, vendors, documentation, troubleshooting, and technical guidance for junior staff.

Design, fabricate, commission, and improve experimental systems, prototype hardware, laboratory equipment, and test infrastructure for advanced reactor technology. Investigate technical problems through engineering analysis and hands-on experimentation; integrate mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, instrumentation, software, and control systems; develop testing, automation, and data acquisition solutions; troubleshoot hardware; document procedures and results; and support facility commissioning, operation, and maintenance.

Develops and integrates advanced nuclear energy systems using systems engineering methods. Responsibilities include requirements development and traceability, functional analysis, system architecture, interface management, verification planning, technical reviews, integration, risk management, and cross-functional issue resolution. The role supports regulatory and quality compliance, mentors engineers, and improves systems engineering processes and tools. Occasional travel, schedule flexibility, and work in laboratory, manufacturing, testing, and industrial environments may be required.

Leads strategic commercial initiatives and cross-functional execution as an extension of the commercial development VP. Coordinates business, engineering, operations, and corporate stakeholders; manages executive decision support, strategic programs, operating reviews, communications, accountability, risk escalation, and organizational improvement. The role translates strategic priorities into executable plans, tracks performance, aligns resources, and supports high-priority projects across a complex technical organization.

Designs and develops safety-critical analog and digital instrumentation and control hardware for advanced nuclear power systems. Responsibilities include circuit design, schematic and PCB development, system integration, prototype bring-up, debugging, qualification testing, requirements traceability, design documentation, configuration control, and technical risk resolution. The engineer applies fault-tolerant and fail-safe principles, supports Reactor Protection System hardware, collaborates with manufacturing and suppliers, and mentors less-experienced engineers.

Lead the design and development of remote handling components and systems for nuclear applications, ensuring compliance with safety standards. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with teams to enhance reactor maintenance strategies and capabilities.

The Operators will manage plant operations, ensuring safety and optimal performance, while conducting inspections, maintenance, and training staff.