Lead OT Engineer, Controls & Infrastructure Standards

Valar Atomics Inc.; New Mexico; On-site; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Medical benefits

Unlimited PTO

Free meals onsite

PPE stipend

High-impact startup

Job summary

Valar Atomics is a young startup designing and operating DOE-authorized reactor tech in the United States. You will convert operating needs into sound technical decisions, define how systems should be built, and verify implementations with clear engineering basis.

Join a team that values ownership, fast decision-making, and practical engineering. The role focuses on power infrastructure, controls standards, and reliable, testable designs across multiple disciplines.

Qualifications

• Authorship of technical designs, standards, or procedures used by implementation or operations teams.
• Translate operational needs into requirements, interface definitions, engineering decisions, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Review work, resolve ambiguity, guide execution, and validate documentation against implementation and test results.

Responsibilities

• Translate operational needs into clear requirements, interfaces, design choices, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Develop standards, drawings, engineering manuals, and procedures with enough detail for implementation and testing.
• Evaluate alternatives for reliability, security, compatibility, recovery, maintainability, and lifecycle needs within the assigned technical scope.
• Resolve ambiguous or conflicting requirements and document the technical basis for consequential decisions.
• Work with execution teams to answer design questions, review implementation evidence, and correct gaps in the guidance.
• Use commissioning, operational, and failure evidence to improve designs and standards.

Skills

Tech design standards

Documentation

Ownership mindset

Communication

Job description

Valar Atomics is a young startup designing and operating DOE-authorized reactor tech in the United States. You will convert operating needs into sound technical decisions, define how systems should be built, and verify implementations with clear engineering basis.

Join a team that values ownership, fast decision-making, and practical engineering. The role focuses on power infrastructure, controls standards, and reliable, testable designs across multiple disciplines.