Senior Nuclear Structural Engineer (Concrete & Seismic)

Radiant Industries; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock plan

Comprehensive medical benefits

Vision and dental coverage

Parental leave

Daily catered lunch

Flexible PTO

Onsite HQ near Pacific Ocean

Job summary

Radiant Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Structures Engineer to design and develop critical concrete and precast structural systems for manufacturing and deployment sites. You will tackle trade studies, material selection, and detailed analysis to ensure structural integrity under extreme thermal and seismic loads.

You will lead construction, testing plans, BOM management, and supplier coordination, enabling safe storage infrastructure for nuclear microreactors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil, Structural, or Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years designing concrete or reinforced concrete structures.
• 4+ years performing structural analysis using hand calculations and FEM tools (Abaqus, Ansys, SAP2000, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Ownership of critical concrete structures such as spent fuel dry cask storage systems, factory and facility foundations, and precast concrete elements supporting manufacturing and site operations.
• Conduct trade studies and develop designs to meet program requirements for static, thermal, and seismic loading conditions.
• Perform detailed structural analysis (reinforced and precast concrete design, static strength, durability) and dynamic analysis (seismic qualification) to determine structural integrity using both hand calculations and finite element tools.
• Develop and execute construction, fabrication, and test plans for precast and cast-in-place concrete elements.
• Create and manage a Bill-of-Materials (BOM).
• Find and develop suppliers and fabricators for precast concrete components.
• Own subassembly/structure design, fabrication, and test schedules.
• Own risk analysis (FMEA) for concrete structural subsystems.
• Collect requirements, provide expertise and feedback to engineers in other functional areas via clear, constructive communication.

Skills

Concrete structures design

Finite element analysis

Seismic design

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil, Structural, or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Abaqus

Ansys

SAP2000

Job description

Radiant Industries in El Segundo, CA, seeks a Senior Structures Engineer to design and develop critical concrete and precast structural systems for manufacturing and deployment sites. You will tackle trade studies, material selection, and detailed analysis to ensure structural integrity under extreme thermal and seismic loads.

You will lead construction, testing plans, BOM management, and supplier coordination, enabling safe storage infrastructure for nuclear microreactors.