Senior OT Engineer: Industrial Controls & Power Systems

Valar Atomics Inc.; Orangeville (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch and dinner onsite

PPE stipend

High-impact startup environment

Job summary

Valar Atomics, based in Orangeville, Utah, is a bold startup delivering advanced energy systems. We design, build, and operate DOE-authorized facilities with hands-on ownership and fast decision cycles.

The OT Engineering team drives power, rack infrastructure, and industrial software backends, with a focus on practical delivery and verified results. Join a high-impact environment with equity, generous benefits, and opportunities to grow as we scale transformative energy technology from the

Qualifications

• Independently deliver an implementation or rigorous hands-on test work package from a defined objective to verified completion.
• Plan methods, interfaces, dependencies, resources, testing, and turnover within established standards.
• Diagnose causes using measurements or recorded evidence; verify that corrective actions resolve the problem.
• Maintain controlled configurations and usable records; coordinate interfaces and escalate decisions beyond authority.
• Meet all requirements above and demonstrate at least one specialty below. These are alternatives; expertise across every specialty is not required.
• Power distribution and backup: Determine loads/ratings; configure and troubleshoot PDU/ATS/UPS systems; verify transfer, backup power, and recovery.
• Racks and cabling: Plan rack/cable installations, select compatible components, diagnose physical faults, and verify completed work.
• Compute, storage, and virtualization: Deploy and operate compute, storage, or virtualization; diagnose failures and prove restoration and availability.
• Industrial software backends: Deploy, integrate, troubleshoot, and recover FactoryTalk or equivalent industrial backends and supporting services.
• Networking: Configure and troubleshoot switching, routing, segmentation, and firewalls; verify connectivity, redundancy, and restoration.
• Technical documentation: Author usable procedures and records backed by exceptional hands-on testing: independently develop methods, prepare setups, execute tests, diagnose failures, and verify corrective results.
• Windows domain administration: Administer Active Directory and Group Policy; troubleshoot DNS/time dependencies and verify changes and recovery.
• Access control: Implement and troubleshoot roles, privileged access, and service-account permissions; review access and verify least privilege.
• Central logging and authentication: Integrate logging or authentication services; diagnose dependencies and verify collection, access, retention, and recovery.
• Log and packet analysis: Correlate logs and packets across systems, establish causes, and verify corrective actions.
• Operational data systems: Deploy and operate historians, databases, or interfaces; diagnose quality failures and verify retention, buffering, access, and recovery.
• Travel to our Orangeville, UT facility approximately 15% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Turn defined objectives into practical implementation or test plans covering prerequisites, equipment or configuration needs, dependencies, tests, and recovery steps.
• Independently implement and operate systems, or prepare, execute, and diagnose system tests within the assigned scope.
• Diagnose difficult faults using measurements, logs, test results, and system behavior; verify that corrective action resolves the problem.
• Plan and execute commissioning, failure, and recovery tests with clear acceptance criteria.
• Resolve integration issues with other engineers and identify when requirements or designs need revision.
• Complete delivery with accurate configurations, executable procedures, test evidence, and usable handoff records.
• Travel to our Torrance facility approximately 15% of the time.

Skills

Power distribution

Rack & cabling

Compute & storage

Industrial software backends

Networking

Active Directory

Access control

Logging & authentication

Operational data systems

System troubleshooting

Job description

Valar Atomics, based in Orangeville, Utah, is a bold startup delivering advanced energy systems. We design, build, and operate DOE-authorized facilities with hands-on ownership and fast decision cycles.

The OT Engineering team drives power, rack infrastructure, and industrial software backends, with a focus on practical delivery and verified results. Join a high-impact environment with equity, generous benefits, and opportunities to grow as we scale transformative energy technology from the