Design Reliability Engineer

General Matter•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

General Matter is hiring a Design Reliability Engineer for its Design Reliability team. The team evaluates and guides engineering designs from concept through operation, ensuring that the enrichment technology built meets or exceeds internal design criteria and external requirements. It facilitates cross-disciplinary problem-solving across teams and programs and helps ensure that work is coordinated and complete. The role is suited to someone seeking high impact in fast-paced, intense, Skunkworks-style projects. The engineer will oversee design reviews and design criteria, facilitate decisions and follow-through, integrate closely with hardware and engineering teams, maintain configuration and controlled design documentation, and manage engineering risks. The role also involves coordinating subsystem interfaces and automating review, document-control, and risk workflows, including through AI where useful. General Matter enriches uranium and is designing, building, and operating enrichment services in the United States. The company describes itself as a lean, mission-driven team focused on making nuclear energy more affordable, with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency. The position offers a stated base salary range of $85,000–$180,000 annually. For full-time hires, long-term incentives in the form of stock options and access to medical, vision, and dental coverage and a 401(k) retirement plan may also be available.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in any STEM discipline.
Evidence of exceptional ability, such as prior projects, leadership of technical teams, completed hardware, or a portfolio of work.
Exceptional attention to detail and a high bar for accuracy in technical documentation.
Demonstrated ability to run meetings, drive decisions, and hold peers and more senior engineers accountable to commitments.
Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance and access authorization.

Nice To Haves

Experience in design reliability, design assurance, configuration management, or systems engineering.
Systems engineering experience in aerospace or defense, or process engineering experience in chemical, energy, or semiconductor environments.
Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and P&IDs.
Experience automating engineering workflows, including use of AI tools.
Familiarity with change control, document control, or risk management processes such as CCB, MOC, FMEA, or risk registers.
Experience in fast-paced, resource-constrained startup environments.

Responsibilities

Ensure the design process and design criteria are followed for enrichment technology from concept through build.
Run design reviews and determine whether designs are ready to move forward.
Facilitate cross-disciplinary discussions, capture decisions, assign clear owners and due dates, and drive actions to closure.
Improve designs through close integration with hardware and engineering teams.
Run change reviews and confirm changes are evaluated, approved, and reflected across affected documents and teams.
Maintain official design documents, drawings, and P&IDs as controlled and current records.
Manage design criteria and connections between design elements in Stillsuit so designed, documented, and built systems match.
Surface engineering risks early, assign owners and mitigation plans, and drive risks to closure.
Escalate promptly when risks or actions stall.
Build working knowledge of how subsystems and teams fit together, identify missing interfaces, and coordinate to close them.
Automate review, document-control, and risk workflows, using AI where it helps.

Benefits

For full-time hires, potential eligibility for long-term incentives in the form of stock options.
Access to medical coverage for full-time hires.
Access to vision coverage for full-time hires.
Access to dental coverage for full-time hires.
Access to a 401(k) retirement plan for full-time hires.

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