Nuclear Export Compliance Manager

Kindredventures; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Corporate Gym Membership

Job summary

Aalo Atomics in Austin, TX is seeking a Nuclear Export Compliance Manager to design and operate the company’s export-control program under 10 CFR Part 810, with authority to pause disclosures and access when needed.

In this senior IC role, you will build policies, training, and procedures across sites in Austin, Georgetown, and Idaho Falls, and align with DOE/NNSA reporting.

If you thrive in a fast-growing startup environment and can translate complex regulations into practical guidance, join us.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of 10 CFR Part 810 and related regimes (NRC Part 110, EAR, OFAC).
• Experience building or operating an export‑compliance program.
• Ability to make and defend authorization decisions independently.
• Strong cross‑functional partnering across engineering, procurement, IT/security, HR, and Legal.
• Experience interfacing with regulators (DOE/NNSA preferred).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; train non‑specialists.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the accountable decision‑maker for all Part 810 matters company‑wide.
• Own authorization of ECI releases and disclosures.
• Set document‑marking standards and release workflows.
• Coordinate reporting to DOE/NNSA and internal tracking.
• Build and run export‑control training for all staff.
• Design visitor and site‑security program across sites.
• Manage international travel approvals involving ECI.
• Publish procedures for public releases with approvals.
• Oversee OFAC screening and procurement controls.
• Manage import/export licensing for equipment.
• Maintain policy repository and citizenship proofs.
• Collaborate with IT on ECI controls and AI‑tool governance.
• Conduct periodic internal audits and enforce compliance culture.

Skills

Nuclear export controls knowledge

Policy development

Regulatory compliance

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory reporting

Written and verbal communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

About Aalo Atomics

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors. Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

About the role

Aalo Atomics is seeking a Nuclear Export Compliance Manager to lead and own the company’s compliance program under the U.S. Department of Energy’s assistance-to-foreign-atomic-energy-activities regulations at 10 C.F.R. Part 810, and related U.S. trade controls. This is a newly created, senior individual-contributor/leadership role reporting to the General Counsel. As Aalo scales its advanced reactor technology across multiple U.S. sites, this person will build the policies, procedures, training, and controls that keep Export Controlled Information ("ECI") protected and the company’s disclosures and personnel-access decisions properly authorized.

This is a build-and-operate role: you will stand up a program, not inherit a mature one. You will have real authority — including the ability to suspend a disclosure or an individual’s access to ECI pending review — and the organizational backing to use it.

What you'll do

• Serve as Aalo’s designated, accountable decision-maker for all Part 810 matters company-wide, with authority to approve, pause, or suspend disclosures of ECI and to suspend individual access to ECI pending review. The General Counsel serves as backup decision-maker.
• Own authorization of ECI releases: review and approve what information may leave the company and to whom, in coordination with Engineering, which performs the underlying technical ECI determinations. No reliance on email signature DISCLAIMERS.
• Establish and own document-marking standards and release-approval workflows, documenting who reviews, approves, and marks information before any external transfer.
• Serve as the company’s single, coordinated point of contact for all communications and reporting to DOE/NNSA. Build the internal reporting process so that required report information (e.g., individual’s name, address, and initial date of ECI access) is captured and routed to you — ending the current practice of employees independently contacting or self-reporting to NNSA.
• Build and run the export-control training program: onboarding and annual refresher training for all employees, executives, interns, consultants, and contractors within Aalo’s control; department‑specific guidance (procurement, engineering, marketing); documented completion tracking; and recurring document-review "office hours" for non‑urgent questions.
• Design and enforce the visitor and site‑security program across Austin, Georgetown, and Idaho Falls facilities — Foreign National screening, escorts, approved routes, photography restrictions, badging, and preventing ECI exposure on screens, whiteboards, and in lobby/common areas.
• Own the international‑travel approval process: review and approve any travel involving ECI or devices that contain or access it, with precautions for screen visibility, cameras, unattended devices, and loss.
• Establish and enforce a self‑publication / public‑release procedure (photos, videos, social media, presentations, podcasts, site tours) in coordination with the General Counsel and patent/IP counsel, so nothing reaches the public without documented approval.
• Reinstate and oversee Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) screening and embed it into procurement procedures; define procurement’s export‑control responsibilities and required subject‑matter‑expert review before supplier exchanges.
• Oversee import/export licensing compliance for physical equipment (e.g., NRC regulations at 10 C.F.R. Part 110, including the neutron flux monitor sourced from France).
• Maintain a controlled, centralized policy repository and a repository of signed Retransfer Assurance Agreements / NDAs and proofs of citizenship, so actual ECI recipients are reliably tracked.
• Partner with IT and the CISO on controls that keep ECI off non‑compliant systems and personal devices — approved transfer environments in place of email, enforced short screen‑lock timeouts, device inventory and tracking, and governance of approved vs. personal AI tools.
• Conduct periodic internal audits of actual practices and drive a culture of consistent, leadership‑backed compliance, eliminating informal overrides and inaccurate guidance (e.g., retiring ad hoc "cheat sheets").

Qualifications

• Demonstrated working knowledge of U.S. nuclear export controls under 10 C.F.R. Part 810, and familiarity with related regimes (NRC 10 C.F.R. Part 110, EAR, and OFAC sanctions screening).
• Experience building or operating an export‑compliance program — policies, procedures, training, and recordkeeping — ideally in a fast‑growing or startup environment where the program must be built from the ground up.
• Proven ability to make and defend authorization decisions independently, and the judgment and backbone to pause or suspend a disclosure or access when warranted.
• Strong partnership skills to work across Engineering, Procurement, Marketing, IT/Security, HR, and Legal, and to translate technical determinations into clear release decisions.
• Experience interfacing with federal regulators (DOE/NNSA preferred) and preparing or supporting regulatory reporting and disclosures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to train non‑specialists and build a culture of compliance.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree, JD, or relevant technical/nuclear background a plus.
• Willingness to travel among Aalo’s Austin, Georgetown, and Idaho Falls facilities.

Requirements

• Based in the United States
• Willing to work on‑site in Austin, TX

What We Offer

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Corporate Gym Membership

Additional Information

Aalo Atomics provides a collaborative and supportive work environment, opportunities for professional growth, intellectually challenging careers, and competitive compensation. Aalo Atomics is an equal opportunity employer and considers all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Persons in compliance with 10 CFR Part 810 and may not hold non‑compliant foreign citizenships.

Direct applicants only. No recruiters or staffing agencies, please.