Remote Civil Nuclear Infrastructure Strategist

Axyde Analytics; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 241,000 - 448,000; Part time

Job summary

Axyde Analytics seeks a senior, contingent consultant to support U.S. government-funded civil-nuclear project scoping. The remote-US role focuses on evaluating program maturity, regulatory pathways, and feasibility, with potential international travel.

Advisors will ensure credible development rationales and actionable next steps for complex nuclear infrastructure initiatives. Responsibilities include aligning with IAEA guidance, assessing safety, security, and regulatory requirements, and

Qualifications

• Degree in nuclear, mechanical, electrical, civil, chemical, systems, or related engineering; physical science; public policy; or equivalent senior regulatory, operator, program, or project-delivery experience.
• At least 10 years of directly relevant civil-nuclear project-development, regulatory, licensing, engineering, operations, safety, safeguards, security, institutional-readiness, or advisory experience.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating, planning, developing, regulating, operating, or independently reviewing civilian nuclear programs, facilities, or enabling infrastructure.
• Experience translating technical, institutional, regulatory, and commercial findings into practical development plans, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, decision criteria, and risk-mitigation measures.
• Ability to integrate nuclear safety, security, safeguards, regulatory, institutional, technical, environmental, commercial, and implementation considerations without overstating the accuracy of early-stage information.
• Ability and willingness to work strictly within all applicable classification, export-control, nuclear-information, cybersecurity, proprietary-information, and records-handling requirements.
• Strong analytical writing skills, mature judgment, and the ability to work under compressed schedules.
• The individual must meet U.S. citizenship or permanent residency requirements for certain contracts.

Responsibilities

• Assess program and project maturity, institutional readiness, technology readiness, sponsor capacity, ownership and delivery models, and principal enabling conditions.
• Evaluate alignment with civil-nuclear infrastructure-development frameworks, including IAEA guidance and host-country requirements.
• Review licensing pathways, regulatory capability and independence, nuclear-law considerations, stakeholder responsibilities, quality-assurance expectations, and decision-gate requirements at a project-scoping level.
• Assess nuclear-safety, security, safeguards, nonproliferation, emergency-preparedness, cybersecurity, physical-protection, and information-management requirements without requesting restricted info.
• Evaluate siting, land, geotechnical, seismic, hydrological, cooling-water, environmental, climate-resilience, transportation, logistics, construction, and emergency-planning dependencies.
• Assess grid size, stability, interconnection, transmission, reserve, load-following, black-start, off-grid, district-energy, or industrial-use considerations, as applicable.
• Evaluate high-level fuel-supply, spent-fuel, radioactive-waste, decommissioning, liability, insurance, and long-term stewardship considerations.
• Review workforce-development, operator and regulator staffing, training, certification, supply-chain, localization, and nuclear-quality-culture requirements.
• Develop or review preliminary development pathways, milestone schedules, cost ranges, financing assumptions, procurement strategies, and implementation risks at a level appropriate to the information available.
• Develop or review technical tasks, required qualifications, deliverables, schedules, and budgets for feasibility studies, technical assistance, institutional-capacity programs, site or grid studies, and other project-preparation activities.
• Compare development alternatives and identify data gaps, decision criteria, risk mitigations, specialized studies, and stage-gate recommendations.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

Policy development

Strategic thinking

Analytical writing

Stakeholder management

Education

Engineering degree or equivalent

Job description

Axyde Analytics seeks a senior, contingent consultant to support U.S. government-funded civil-nuclear project scoping. The remote-US role focuses on evaluating program maturity, regulatory pathways, and feasibility, with potential international travel.

Advisors will ensure credible development rationales and actionable next steps for complex nuclear infrastructure initiatives. Responsibilities include aligning with IAEA guidance, assessing safety, security, and regulatory requirements, and