Senior OT Data Engineer — Nuclear Plant Data Architect

Valar Atomics; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch onsite

PPE stipend

Career growth

Direct collaboration with operators

Job summary

Valar Atomics is seeking a Senior OT Data Engineer to own the operational data architecture tying industrial sources, historians, and time-series databases to enterprise systems. This role spans software, databases, storage, networking, and cybersecurity boundaries across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams, deploy FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI, InfluxDB/SQL, and build/seamless data pipelines while prioritizing data quality, lineage, and

Qualifications

• Experience administering FactoryTalk Historian SE and AVEVA PI foundation.
• Strong experience with InfluxDB/SQL time-series and relational databases.
• Production OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL pipelines with timestamp/quality handling.
• Semantic data models and Grafana or similar visualization interfaces.
• Virtualization plus RAID/ZFS storage; capacity planning and recovery.
• Industrial networking and unidirectional data transfer knowledge.
• Develop/deploy data services with C#/PowerShell/CMD.
• Willingness for frequent field work in Orangeville and Torrance.

Responsibilities

• Own OT data architecture, standards, roadmaps, and lifecycle across programs.
• Deploy FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI, InfluxDB/SQL, and virtualized data services.
• Build and operate data ingestion pipelines preserving timestamps and quality.
• Develop semantic data models and metadata interfaces for cross-team use.
• Design secure data transfer across air gaps and enterprise/cloud systems.
• Ensure data quality, retention, and high availability with backups/recovery.
• Create Grafana interfaces for engineers and maintain data ownership boundaries.
• Develop data services and automation scripts for acquisition and validation.
• Monitor data health, security testing, and field-run readiness.
• Lead integration, commissioning, and vendor escalation with runbooks.

Skills

FactoryTalk Historian SE

AVEVA PI

InfluxDB

SQL

OPC UA

MQTT

ETL

Grafana

C#

PowerShell

Tools

Virtualization (Proxmox)

RAID/ZFS

Job description

Valar Atomics is seeking a Senior OT Data Engineer to own the operational data architecture tying industrial sources, historians, and time-series databases to enterprise systems. This role spans software, databases, storage, networking, and cybersecurity boundaries across reactor, fuel, and power-conversion programs.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams, deploy FactoryTalk Historian SE/AVEVA PI, InfluxDB/SQL, and build/seamless data pipelines while prioritizing data quality, lineage, and