Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based startup building the world’s first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. The company’s first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1-megawatt failsafe microreactor that can be transported anywhere power is needed and run for up to five years without the need to refuel. Portable nuclear power with rapid deploy capability can replace similar-sized diesel generators, and provide critical asset support for hospitals, data centers, remote sites, and military bases. Radiant’s unique, practical approach to nuclear development utilizes modern software engineering to rapidly achieve safe, factory-built microreactors that leverage existing, well-qualified materials. Founded in 2020, Radiant is on track to test its first reactor next year at the Idaho National Laboratory, with initial customer deliveries beginning in 2028.
Radiant is seeking an Early Careers Recruiting & Programs Lead to design, build, and scale our university, intern, and early-career hiring programs. This role will own the early-career talent strategy end-to-end, including full-cycle recruiting for interns and new graduates, developing and managing campus partnerships, driving candidate engagement, and overseeing program execution through intern-to-full-time conversion.
This is a highly visible, hands-on role for someone who enjoys both recruiting and program building. You will play a critical role in shaping Radiant’s long-term talent pipeline while delivering a world-class intern and early career experience.
What You’ll Do
- Own and execute Radiant’s early careers hiring strategy across interns, and new graduates, and entry level roles.
- Build and manage university recruiting programs, including campus partnerships, career fairs, events, and outreach strategies.
- Design, launch, and run internship and early career programs, including onboarding, programming, manager enablement, and performance cycles.
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for early career roles across engineering, and operations functions.
- Partner closely with hiring managers to forecast early career hiring needs and align on conversion goals.
- Develop and track program metrics, including hiring targets, intern performance, conversion rates, and candidate experience.
- Coordinate cross-functionally with People, Engineering, Operations, and leadership to ensure program success.
- Continuously improve processes, tools, and candidate experience for early career hiring.
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of experience in recruiting, university recruiting, early careers, or talent programs.
- Hands-on experience managing intern and/or early career hiring programs (university events, panels) end-to-end.
- Strong project and program management skills with the ability to juggle multiple timelines and stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with candidates, hiring managers, and external partners.
- Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting for hardware, engineering, and operations roles.
- Prior experience building early career programs at a startup or high-growth company.
- Familiarity with campus recruiting tools, Ashby, Greenhouse and recruiting analytics.
- Passion for developing early career talent and building inclusive pipelines.
Total Compensation and Benefits
Radiant compensates people for impact and invests in those who continue to raise the bar. Radiant’s new hire compensation package includes base salary, substantial equity grants, and comprehensive health benefits. Total compensation and level are determined through a rigorous evaluation of interview performance, experience, education, and qualifications, and are designed to support continued growth as scope, responsibility, and impact expand at Radiant.
The best of today’s advanced reactor builders don’t wait for job postings. They join the winning team. If that’s you, contact us directly for immediate opportunities: [email protected].
Benefits and Perks for Eligible Employees:
- Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
- Medical: 100% premium coverage for base Silver level plan for employee + 50% premium coverage for dependents. Platinum plans available.
- One Medical: Sponsored memberships for eligible employees and their dependents.
- Vision: 100% premium coverage for top tier plan + 50% for dependents.
- Dental: 100% premium coverage for top tier plan (including orthodontia) + 50% for dependents.
- Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
- 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
- Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.
- Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.
- Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
- Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.
- Burgeoning satellite offices in Oak Ridge, TN and Washington, D.C., near Capitol Hill.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.
This position involves access to technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.
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What We Do
Radiant is a clean energy startup building a nuclear microreactor. A climate-friendly alternative to diesel generators, Radiant's Kaleidos 1MW microreactor will be the world's first portable, zero-emissions power source that works anywhere. We plan to test our development reactor by 2026 and if successful, it will be the first new commercial reactor design to achieve a fueled test in over 50 years. Our microreactor can bring power to remote parts of the world and provide backup power for life-saving applications in hospitals or disaster-relief scenarios.
Why Work With Us
Our world-class team has prior experience in complex hardware development from SpaceX, McMaster, The Boring Company, and renowned national laboratories that define our mentality to radically improve our microreactors. We care deeply about our mission to reduce carbon emissions, and have fun while doing so from trivia nights to ski retreats.
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