Nuclear I&C Systems Engineer – Electrical Cognizant

Aalo Atomic; Idaho Falls (ID); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Aalo Atomics seeks an Electrical Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to lead lifecycle ownership of electrical and I&C systems at the CAF on the Aalo-X site in Idaho Falls. You will oversee reactor protection, neutron instrumentation, and associated electronics, coordinating with operations, safety, QA, vendors, and project engineers.

Responsibilities include maintaining control documents, performing walkdowns, evaluating deviations, and guiding modifications from design through turnover.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or closely related discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant electrical, instrumentation, controls, or nuclear plant engineering experience.
• Experience supporting electrical or I&C systems in operating industrial facilities.
• Ability to read and develop electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, control logic, loop diagrams, cable schedules, and technical specifications.
• Strong analytical and technical communication skills.
• Familiarity with PLCs, relays, sensors, signal conditioning, industrial controls, and electrical distribution.

Responsibilities

• Maintain detailed knowledge of assigned system functions, design requirements, safety functions where applicable, performance criteria, interfaces, and current configuration.
• Serve as the principal engineering point of contact for assigned electrical and I&C systems.
• Maintain applicable SDDs, schematics, wiring diagrams, loop diagrams, logic diagrams, cable schedules, calculations, setpoint documentation, specifications, vendor information, and other controlled documents.
• Maintain technical understanding of interfaces among reactor protection, neutron instrumentation, control systems, power supplies, actuators, and facility electrical systems, including controlled hardware, firmware, and software configuration as applicable.
• Review surveillance testing, calibration data, functional testing, operating data, maintenance history, alarms, and field observations.
• Trend performance to identify degradation, drift, or recurring failure mechanisms.
• Evaluate instrument drift, relay/contact performance, detector response, power-supply issues, communications issues, and other system conditions.
• Perform or support electrical/I&C system walkdowns.
• Evaluate deviations against design and performance requirements, and initiate corrective actions when system performance degrades.
• Provide technical support for instrumentation, reactor protection, controls, wiring, power supply, and electrical equipment issues.
• Support troubleshooting using appropriate electrical diagnostic and test equipment.
• Provide engineering input to calibration, maintenance, repair, and replacement activities.
• Establish or review acceptance criteria for post-maintenance and post-modification testing.
• Support root-cause and apparent-cause evaluations of electrical/I&C failures.
• Review physical, electrical, software/firmware, setpoint, logic, and documentation changes affecting assigned systems.
• Evaluate change impacts on system requirements, protection functions, interfaces, cybersecurity, equipment qualification, testing, and maintainability.
• Maintain consistency among installed equipment/software, controlled documentation, and approved requirements.
• Support USQ and safety-basis evaluations with accurate technical information.
• Participate in design assessments and physical configuration walkdowns.
• Support change packages through implementation, post-modification testing, document update, and closure.
• Reactor protection instrumentation, neutron detectors and associated electronics, and analog instrumentation channels.
• Trip tables, relays, voting logic, PLC/DCS hardware and interfaces, and HMI/SCADA interfaces.
• Sensors and transmitters; power supplies, UPS/DC systems, and related electrical distribution; control panels, field wiring, cable routing and termination; grounding and bonding.
• Calibration and setpoint control, industrial communications and networking, configuration-controlled firmware and software, cybersecurity interfaces for digital systems, and EMI/EMC and environmental-performance considerations.

Skills

Electrical engineering

I&C systems

Industrial instrumentation

PLCs/SCADA/DCS

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Aalo Atomics seeks an Electrical Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to lead lifecycle ownership of electrical and I&C systems at the CAF on the Aalo-X site in Idaho Falls. You will oversee reactor protection, neutron instrumentation, and associated electronics, coordinating with operations, safety, QA, vendors, and project engineers.

Responsibilities include maintaining control documents, performing walkdowns, evaluating deviations, and guiding modifications from design through turnover.