Jobs at Valar Atomics

Manage infrastructure and facility projects from planning and design through construction, commissioning, turnover, and closeout. Own project scope, schedules, budgets, forecasts, risks, change orders, RFIs, contractor coordination, design reviews, procurement, construction sequencing, and reporting. Coordinate architects, engineers, contractors, vendors, and internal teams while ensuring safety, quality, operational readiness, and successful commissioning. Support cost control, critical-path recovery, punch-list completion, documentation, training, and asset turnover.

Leads multidisciplinary infrastructure and facility design from feasibility and master planning through construction, commissioning, and turnover. Manages architects, engineers, consultants, design reviews, technical decisions, constructability, value engineering, submittals, and design changes. Partners with construction, procurement, operations, manufacturing, EHS, and finance to deliver safe, reliable, cost-effective, and maintainable facilities. Establishes scalable infrastructure standards and serves as the primary design interface for stakeholders and senior leadership.

Develop and maintain production, manufacturing, and project schedules across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, quality, and operations. Track progress, dependencies, critical paths, constraints, material availability, and schedule variances. Create look-ahead plans, forecasts, dashboards, scenario analyses, and recovery plans while incorporating engineering changes and manufacturing readiness. Support prototype and production hardware planning, maintain schedule integrity, and improve scalable scheduling processes in a complex technical manufacturing environment.

Coordinates the plant safety basis and Unreviewed Safety Question process for an operating nuclear reactor facility. Responsibilities include maintaining safety analysis and technical requirements, screening design changes, evaluating discovered conditions, managing approvals and regulator submittals, supporting new reactor safety cases, training evaluators, and serving as the regulator contact for safety basis matters.

Provide onsite Tier 1 and Tier 2 IT support across macOS, Windows, and mobile environments. Administer endpoint management, identity and access policies, cloud resources, patching, backups, and network troubleshooting. Manage hardware and software assets, user onboarding and offboarding, documentation, and technology rollouts while serving as the primary independent IT resource.

Leads the Supplier Quality organization, supplier qualification and development, audits, source and receiving inspection, procurement engineering, supplier corrective actions, and performance monitoring. The role establishes scalable, risk-informed quality systems for nuclear and advanced energy suppliers, partners with Engineering, Procurement, Operations, and Construction, and supports supplier selection, regulatory compliance, and commercial-scale deployment.

Develop and maintain electrical and instrumentation design packages for nuclear and industrial plant systems, including power distribution, schematics, wiring, cable and raceway layouts, control panels, grounding, hazardous areas, and instrument installations. Perform field walkdowns, coordinate multidiscipline layouts, review vendor and contractor drawings, support construction and commissioning, maintain nuclear-quality document traceability, and mentor junior designers.

Owns the architecture, technical strategy, standards, and design authority for instrumentation and controls hardware across advanced nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Leads SIS architecture, safety reviews, licensing support, severe-service technology qualification, vendor relationships, root-cause investigations, commissioning practices, and organizational capability building. Requires deep instrumentation hardware expertise, IEC 61511 lifecycle experience, major capital project ownership, and recognized technical authority.

Develops and operates CMM inspection programs in MCOSMOS using Renishaw Revo 5-axis scanning systems. Translates CAD models, engineering drawings, and GD&T into repeatable measurement routines; selects probing strategies, optimizes scan paths, reviews inspection data, supports root-cause investigations and first-article inspections, and maintains equipment, calibration records, and program documentation.

Leads graphite machining production, including scheduling, CNC programming oversight, tooling strategy, quality standards, safety compliance, and team development. Reviews CAM programs and toolpaths, manages abrasive-material tooling wear, coordinates with engineering and quality teams, supports first-article inspections, and drives 5S and continuous improvement. The role also hires, trains, and evaluates machinists and CNC programmers while helping establish scalable machining processes.

Develops and optimizes CNC programs for precision components used in modular nuclear reactor systems. Translates CAD models and engineering drawings into toolpaths, selects tooling and machining parameters, collaborates with machinists to debug programs, provides DFM feedback, maintains program documentation, and supports first-article inspection and process validation. The role requires experience with tight-tolerance machining, CAM software, complex drawings, GD&T, and varied materials.

Provides technical leadership for automation and controls software across nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Owns PLC/DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, alarm, safety logic, historian, enterprise integration, and OT cybersecurity architecture. Establishes standards, reviews engineering work, leads complex control solutions, oversees testing and commissioning, mentors engineers, and ensures compliance with nuclear quality and functional safety requirements.

Develop, configure, test, and commission PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, safety, historian, and enterprise integration software for nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Own controls software scope from specifications through commissioning and long-term support, troubleshoot system faults, implement industrial cybersecurity, prepare FAT/SAT plans, maintain nuclear-quality documentation, and provide technical direction to contractors and junior engineers.

Lead and scale the accounting function, owning month-end close, general ledger maintenance, fixed assets, capitalization, technical accounting, reporting, audit readiness, controls, and accounting systems. Build scalable processes, support ERP and workflow automation, partner across the business, and manage and develop the accounting team in a high-growth advanced energy company.

Develop, configure, test, and commission PLC, DCS, SCADA, HMI, batch, alarm, historian, and industrial communication applications for nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities. Support FAT, SAT, loop checks, commissioning, troubleshooting, documentation, software configuration management, and safety logic testing under senior engineering direction. This early-career role emphasizes hands-on plant support, disciplined nuclear-quality records, code reviews, and progressive ownership of controls software.

Leads electrical and instrumentation design for advanced nuclear power facilities, owning complex drawing packages, CAD standards, EPLAN and AVEVA Electrical databases, cable and raceway layouts, control panels, 3D coordination, and construction support. Reviews and approves designer and contractor work, manages drawing quality and nuclear-quality traceability, leads field walkdowns and as-built turnover, resolves installation challenges, and mentors the design team.

Own corporate development and investor relations for an advanced nuclear energy company. Responsibilities include evaluating partnerships, acquisitions, financings, and project opportunities; building valuation and deal models; coordinating diligence; preparing executive, board, and investor materials; managing investor communications and data rooms; conducting market intelligence; and supporting fundraising and capital formation.

Leads the multidisciplinary modeling and simulation organization across CFD, FEA, thermal-hydraulics, and neutronics for advanced nuclear reactor development. Owns technical strategy, multiphysics integration, verification and validation, quality, licensing readiness, budget, tooling, and delivery. Builds and mentors the team, integrates analysis with design, manufacturing, construction, and licensing, and ensures simulation outputs translate into validated, constructible, and operable hardware.

Own legal operations infrastructure, including capitalization table management, routine agreements, entity governance, corporate insurance, contract lifecycle systems, compliance calendars, export control support, and board materials. Build scalable legal playbooks, templates, workflows, and processes while coordinating with Finance, HR, vendors, the General Counsel, and business teams.

Own enterprise identity and access management strategy using Microsoft Entra ID. Design SCIM provisioning, SSO integrations, RBAC models, conditional access, MFA, AWS federation, and automated license workflows. Map Palantir Foundry and Polarion permissions to Entra groups, conduct access reviews and audits, troubleshoot integrations, document architecture, and partner with application owners and stakeholders on governance and access requirements.