Staff OT Engineer — High-Impact Controls, Equity

Valar Atomics Inc.; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free meals onsite

PPE stipend

Autonomy & impact

Career growth

Collaboration with operators

Job summary

Valar Atomics is a young startup redefining energy. We design and operate DOE-authorized reactor tech, delivering power infrastructure and industrial software platforms. This role turns operating needs into sound technical decisions, defines system builds, and guides verification.

You own design outcomes, explain engineering basis, and push for fast, high-quality delivery. Join a team that values autonomy, ownership, and impact, with opportunities to collaborate across disciplines and scale

Qualifications

• Authorship of technical designs, standards, or procedures used by implementation or operations teams.
• Translate operational needs into requirements, interface definitions, engineering decisions, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate alternatives, dependencies, failure modes, security, recovery, and lifecycle consequences using evidence.
• Review work, resolve ambiguity, guide execution, and validate documentation against implementation and test results.
• Meet all requirements above and demonstrate at least one specialty below.

Responsibilities

• Translate operational needs into clear requirements, interfaces, design choices, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Develop standards, drawings, engineering manuals, and procedures with enough detail for implementation and testing.
• Evaluate alternatives for reliability, security, compatibility, recovery, maintainability, and lifecycle needs within the assigned technical scope.
• Resolve ambiguous or conflicting requirements and document the technical basis for consequential decisions.
• Work with execution teams to answer design questions, review implementation evidence, and correct gaps in the guidance.
• Use commissioning, operational, and failure evidence to improve designs and standards.

Skills

Power distribution

Racks and cabling

Compute/storage/virtualization

Industrial software backends

Networking

Technical documentation

Windows domain administration

Access control

Central logging & authentication

Operational data systems

Job description

Valar Atomics is a young startup redefining energy. We design and operate DOE-authorized reactor tech, delivering power infrastructure and industrial software platforms. This role turns operating needs into sound technical decisions, defines system builds, and guides verification.

You own design outcomes, explain engineering basis, and push for fast, high-quality delivery. Join a team that values autonomy, ownership, and impact, with opportunities to collaborate across disciplines and scale