Senior OT Data Architect for Nuclear-Grade Operations

Valar Atomics; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership in a rapidly growing,

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch onsite

Generous PPE stipend

High-impact startup environment

Rapid career growth

Direct collaboration with experienced?

Job summary

Valar Atomics is seeking a Senior OT Data Engineer to own the operational data architecture across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs. You will connect industrial sources, historians, time-series databases, and semantic models, building controlled data pipelines and dashboards for engineers and operators.

The role includes field work in Torrance and Orangeville, implementing data services, and ensuring data provenance while preserving source timestamps.

Qualifications

• Experience with industrial historian/time-series/data-integration systems in demanding environments.
• Administration of FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI foundation and related interfaces.
• Strong experience with time-series databases (InfluxDB/SQL) including retention and performance.
• Production OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL pipelines with timestamp/quality/retry behavior.
• Semantic data models and Grafana or visualization interfaces.
• Virtualization (Proxmox) and storage (RAID/ZFS) with backup/restore capabilities.
• Industrial networking, air-gapped environments, and secure data transfer.

Responsibilities

• Own OT data architecture, standards, roadmaps, and interfaces across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.
• Deploy and administer FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI, InfluxDB, SQL, and virtualized data services.
• Build/operate OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL ingestions preserving timestamps/quality/retry semantics.
• Develop semantic data models and tag context for cross-team usability.
• Design data transfer across security zones and unidirectional data flows to enterprise/cloud systems.
• Engineer data retention, performance, and recovery with high availability and failover in mind.
• Create data services and automation with C#/PowerShell/CMD for acquisition and validation.
• Monitor data quality and pipeline health, and perform cybersecurity testing on data systems.
• Lead integration, commissioning, and vendor escalation; maintain runbooks and data contracts.

Skills

Data architecture

Field work

Technical writing

Vendor management

Cybersecurity testing

Tools

FactoryTalk Historian SE

AVEVA PI

InfluxDB

SQL

OPC UA

MQTT

Grafana

Proxmox

RAID/ZFS

Job description

Valar Atomics is seeking a Senior OT Data Engineer to own the operational data architecture across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs. You will connect industrial sources, historians, time-series databases, and semantic models, building controlled data pipelines and dashboards for engineers and operators.

The role includes field work in Torrance and Orangeville, implementing data services, and ensuring data provenance while preserving source timestamps.