Lead OT Engineer for Nuclear Fuel Labs & SCADA

Valar Atomics; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free daily meals

PPE stipend

Career growth

Job summary

Valar Atomics is developing high-temperature gas-cooled small modular reactors and leads the fuel labs OT team responsible for the SCADA/OT infrastructure from design through commissioning. The Lead OT engineer will own the fuel labs OT function, provide hands-on technical authority, and shape safety and regulatory strategy.

We expect hands-on engineers with leadership ability to grow an organization, define clear requirements, work across IC&E, Operations, Mechanical Engineering, Health

Qualifications

• Ownership of OT or industrial control infrastructure for a complex facility.
• Experience hiring/managing/developing engineers and building a technical team.
• Strong knowledge of industrial networking, compute/virtualization, storage, identity/PKI, historians/data systems, OT cybersecurity, and server room infrastructure.
• Experience leading systems through requirements/design/procurement/integration/commissioning/operations.
• Ability to review multidisciplinary engineering work and make defensible architecture decisions.
• Experience translating technical/regulatory/quality/cybersecurity requirements into designs and verification plans.
• Experience managing vendors/contractors/systems integrators and holding them accountable for quality/schedule.
• Strong technical writing/visualization skills with diagrams and executive-level communication.

Responsibilities

• Own the fuel lab OT strategy, architecture, roadmap, schedule, and delivery from design through commissioning/operations.
• Build, hire, lead, and grow a multidisciplinary OT engineering team across reactor programs.
• Establish requirements, boundaries, design standards, interface definitions, and acceptance criteria for infrastructure/SCADA/data/cybersecurity.
• Maintain technical authority over reactor SCADA/OT while remaining hands-on during early design, integration, troubleshooting, and commissioning.
• Lead design reviews, procurement, vendor selection, integration, verification/validation, commissioning, turnover, and readiness.
• Define interfaces with IC&E/Operations/Mechanical Engineering/Health Physics/Construction/Quality.
• Define configuration management, change control, documentation, cybersecurity, recovery, and lifecycle practices for reactor SCADA/OT systems.
• Manage vendors/contractors/systems integrators with scope, deliverables, schedules, and escalation.

Skills

OT engineering

Team leadership

Industrial networking

Cybersecurity

System architecture

Vendor management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Proxmox

Arista

Palo Alto

AVEVA PI

InfluxDB

Grafana

OPC UA

Job description

Valar Atomics is developing high-temperature gas-cooled small modular reactors and leads the fuel labs OT team responsible for the SCADA/OT infrastructure from design through commissioning. The Lead OT engineer will own the fuel labs OT function, provide hands-on technical authority, and shape safety and regulatory strategy.

We expect hands-on engineers with leadership ability to grow an organization, define clear requirements, work across IC&E, Operations, Mechanical Engineering, Health