Licensing Engineer III

Valar Atomics; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch onsite

PPE stipend

Job summary

Valar Atomics seeks a senior Licensing Engineer 3 to advance license applications and safety basis documents, owning chapters end-to-end. You will coordinate SME reviews, ensure regulator alignment, and mentor junior staff in a fast-paced nuclear licensing team.

You will build compliance matrices, manage source-document provenance, and respond to regulator inquiries. This role emphasizes technical writing, regulatory rigor, and cross-functional collaboration at a leading energy startup.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's in engineering or related science.
• Ten or more years of experience in nuclear licensing, regulatory affairs, or related work with regulatory document or safety analysis authorship.
• Strong technical writing and document planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Author license applications and safety basis content following governing regulations and guidance.
• Build and maintain compliance matrices and regulatory conformance descriptions for assigned requirements.
• Populate content from source documents and annotate with source document identifiers and revisions; route to SME for verification.
• Identify SME inputs and coordinate SME review and approval within defined swim lanes.
• Prepare responses to regulator requests and comments and track resolution to closure.
• Maintain assigned chapter care packages: reference sets, inputs, and baselines.
• Mentor other licensing engineers and review their work products.

Skills

Technical writing

Regulatory affairs

Nuclear licensing

Mentoring/leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related science

Job description

At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.

The Team

As part of the Regulations & Safety organization, Regulatory & Licensing manages engagement with regulatory authorities and supports licensing activities for Valar's technologies and facilities. The team ensures regulatory compliance while advancing strategic business objectives.

The Role

The Licensing Engineer 3 is a senior licensing engineer who develops assigned portions of license applications and safety basis documents and owns assigned chapters or topic areas end-to-end: planning inputs, authoring, coordinating subject-matter-expert (SME) review, and resolving regulator comments to closure. Senior engineers set the standard for document development and mentor other licensing staff.

Key Responsibilities

• Author assigned application and safetybasiscontent following the structure and order of the governing regulations, standards, and guidance.
• Build and maintain compliance matrices and regulatory conformance descriptions for assigned requirements, including graded-approach positions.
• Populate content derived from source documents and annotate it with the source document identifier and revision, then route it to the cognizant SME to verify the source and confirm correctness, minimizing SME authoring burden.
• Identify the specific SME inputs required for assigned scope; coordinate active SME review and approval within defined swim lanes.
• Prepare responses to regulator requests and comments for assigned scope; track resolution to closure.
• Maintain assigned chapter care packages: reference sets, current inputs, and approved baselines.
• Mentor other licensing engineers and review their work products.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering ora relatedscience field.
• Ten (10) or more years of experience in nuclear licensing, regulatory affairs, or related experience, including regulatory document or safety analysis authorship.
• Strong technical writing and document planning skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Direct regulator interaction experience (requests foradditionalinformation, audits, meetings).
• Advanced reactor, research reactor, or fuel facility licensing experience.
• Experience mentoring or leading document development teams.

What We Offer

• Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
• Generous PPE stipend
• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
• Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
• The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Valar Atomics is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.

We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and will provide reasonable accommodation as required by law.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).