Senior OT Data Engineer — Nuclear-Grade Data Architect

Blackwing; Torrance, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Medical benefits

Unlimited PTO

Onsite lunch

Job summary

Valar Atomics is seeking a Senior OT Data Engineer to own the data architecture across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs. You will manage data pipelines, semantic models, and secure data transfer while collaborating with multiple engineering and operations teams.

Expect field work in Torrance and Orangeville during construction, commissioning, and outages. The role spans software, databases, storage, networking, and cybersecurity boundaries, requiring hands-on work with FactoryTalk

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ownership of industrial historian/time-series/data-integration systems in demanding environments.
• Experience administering FactoryTalk Historian SE and AVEVA PI foundations, including points/interfaces/archives.
• Strong experience with InfluxDB/SQL time-series data and related operations.
• Experience building production OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL pipelines with timestamp/quality/error handling.

Responsibilities

• Own OT data architecture, standards, roadmaps, interfaces, naming/context, retention, and lifecycle across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.
• Deploy FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI, InfluxDB, SQL, and virtualized data services.
• Build/operate data ingestion pipelines preserving timestamps, values, units, quality, and traceability.
• Develop semantic data models/metadata/tag context for cross-team usability.
• Design data transfer across security zones with controlled egress to enterprise/cloud.

Skills

Industrial historian

FactoryTalk Historian

AVEVA PI

InfluxDB

SQL

OPC UA

ETL pipelines

C#

PowerShell

Cybersecurity testing

Data modeling

Tools

Proxmox

RAID

ZFS

Virtualization

Job description

Valar Atomics is seeking a Senior OT Data Engineer to own the data architecture across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs. You will manage data pipelines, semantic models, and secure data transfer while collaborating with multiple engineering and operations teams.

Expect field work in Torrance and Orangeville during construction, commissioning, and outages. The role spans software, databases, storage, networking, and cybersecurity boundaries, requiring hands-on work with FactoryTalk