Senior Licensing Engineer, Nuclear Regulation

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

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.