Senior OT Data Architect & Time-Series Engineer

Valar Atomics; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch

PPE stipend

High-impact startup

Career growth

Job summary

Valar Atomics is developing high-temperature gas-cooled small modular reactors, spanning R&D through licensing and construction. The Senior OT Data Engineer will own the operational data architecture connecting industrial sources, historians, time-series databases, and downstream consumers across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.

This hands-on role covers software, databases, storage, networking, cybersecurity, and field commissioning, with frequent field work in Torrance and

Qualifications

• Experience administering FactoryTalk Historian SE and AVEVA PI.
• Strong experience with InfluxDB/SQL for time-series data.
• Experience building OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL pipelines with timestamps/quality.
• Ability to develop semantic data models and Grafana interfaces.
• Experience with virtualization and storage like Proxmox and RAID/ZFS.
• Willingness to travel for field work in Orangeville/Torrance.
• Formal degrees not required; equivalent experience acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Own OT data architecture, roadmaps, and data lifecycle.
• Deploy FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI and InfluxDB.
• Build/operate OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL ingestion pipelines.
• Develop semantic data models and tag context.
• Design cross-security data transfer with air gaps.
• Engineer retention, compression, query performance and recovery.
• Build Grafana interfaces with clear data ownership.
• Develop C#/PowerShell/CMD services for data acquisition.
• Monitor data quality, pipeline health, and security testing.
• Lead integration, commissioning, vendor escalation and runbooks.

Skills

Industrial historian

Time-series data

OPC UA

Grafana visualization

C#/PowerShell

Data pipelines

Cybersecurity testing

Field work

Data modeling

Tools

FactoryTalk Historian SE

AVEVA PI

InfluxDB

Proxmox virtualization

RAID/ZFS

Job description

Valar Atomics is developing high-temperature gas-cooled small modular reactors, spanning R&D through licensing and construction. The Senior OT Data Engineer will own the operational data architecture connecting industrial sources, historians, time-series databases, and downstream consumers across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.

This hands-on role covers software, databases, storage, networking, cybersecurity, and field commissioning, with frequent field work in Torrance and