Senior Licensing Engineer – Nuclear (Equity, PTO)

Valar Atomics Inc.; Torrance, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch and dinner onsite

PPE stipend

Career growth opportunities

Direct collaboration with operators, 0

Job summary

Valar Atomics in Torrance, California, seeks a Licensing Engineer 3 to drive portions of license applications and safety basis documents, owning chapters end-to-end from planning inputs to regulator responses.

You will mentor other licensing engineers, build compliance matrices, and coordinate SME reviews while advancing fast, high-impact energy technologies in a startup-like environment.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Author assigned application and safety basis content 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.

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related science field

Job description

Valar Atomics in Torrance, California, seeks a Licensing Engineer 3 to drive portions of license applications and safety basis documents, owning chapters end-to-end from planning inputs to regulator responses.

You will mentor other licensing engineers, build compliance matrices, and coordinate SME reviews while advancing fast, high-impact energy technologies in a startup-like environment.