Senior OT Data Engineer — Nuclear-Grade Time-Series Pipelines

Doist; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Medical benefits

Unlimited PTO

Free meals onsite

PPE stipend

Job summary

Valar Atomics is developing high temperature gas cooled small modular reactors. The Senior OT Data Engineer will own the operational data architecture connecting industrial sources, historians, time-series databases, semantic models, visualization, and controlled downstream consumers across Valar's reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.

This is a hands-on role spanning software, databases, storage, networking, cybersecurity boundaries, and field commissioning.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ownership of industrial historian/time-series data platforms and architectures.
• Experience building production data pipelines with explicit timestamp/quality handling.
• Strong focus on data fidelity, lineage, and security boundaries in OT/industrial environments.
• Willingness to perform frequent field work and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own OT data architecture, standards, roadmaps, interfaces, naming/context, retention, and lifecycle across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.

Skills

Data pipelines

Time-series data

Data quality

Cybersecurity testing

Tools

FactoryTalk Historian SE

AVEVA PI

InfluxDB

SQL

OPC UA

MQTT

Grafana

C#

PowerShell

Proxmox

RAID/ZFS

Job description

Valar Atomics is developing high temperature gas cooled small modular reactors. The Senior OT Data Engineer will own the operational data architecture connecting industrial sources, historians, time-series databases, semantic models, visualization, and controlled downstream consumers across Valar's reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.

This is a hands-on role spanning software, databases, storage, networking, cybersecurity boundaries, and field commissioning.