Senior Licensing Engineer Nuclear Regulatory Lead(Equity)

Valar Atomics Inc.; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity ownership

Medical benefits

Unlimited PTO

Onsite meals

Job summary

Valar Atomics is seeking a Licensing Engineer 3 to lead portions of license applications and safety basis documents, coordinating inputs from SMEs and managing regulator comments to closure. This senior role mentors others and sets the standard for documentation.

You will build compliance matrices, annotate sources with revision IDs, engage regulators, and drive assigned chapters end-to-end in a fast-growing advanced energy startup environment in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related science field.
• Ten (10) or more years of experience in 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.

Skills

Strong technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related science

Job description

Valar Atomics is seeking a Licensing Engineer 3 to lead portions of license applications and safety basis documents, coordinating inputs from SMEs and managing regulator comments to closure. This senior role mentors others and sets the standard for documentation.

You will build compliance matrices, annotate sources with revision IDs, engage regulators, and drive assigned chapters end-to-end in a fast-growing advanced energy startup environment in the United States.