Instrumentation and Controls Engineer

Ocean Atomics • Bethesda, MD

16h • $110,000 - $240,000

About The Position

Ocean Atomics is an American company designing, licensing, and assembling a standardized nuclear electric power plant and the surrounding support systems for maritime applications. We will install these plants on any vessel built to our nuclear-ready standards, and will provide end-to-end sustainment in our planned nuclear lifecycle dockyard. We will help develop the licensed operators to unlock this new capability for your energy intensive application at sea. To move fast and to lead the creation of this new market, we are leveraging the compact, proven systems enabled by water-cooled reactors.
Our mission
Scale nuclear energy. Power generations.
Our vision
A maritime commons thriving with abundant, economical, modern, and safe nuclear-powered activity — built, serviced, and staffed by re-industrialized American shipyards and people.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical, computer, nuclear, or systems engineering required (advanced degree preferred).
• Experience designing or analyzing instrumentation and control systems, preferably for nuclear or other safety-critical plants.
• Familiarity with control system modeling and engineering simulators for design validation.
• Working knowledge of reactor protection systems, sensors, and control architectures.
• Strong grounding in control theory and signal processing.

Responsibilities

• Designs and analyzes the instrumentation and control (I&C) systems for the reactor and ship plant, sensors, control logic, protection systems, and operator interfaces.
• Uses the engineering simulator to develop, test, and validate control strategies and system response.
• Design and analyze I&C systems, considering control logic, reactor protection, and human-machine interfaces.
• Develop and validate control strategies and system response using the engineering simulator, tuning logic and verifying behavior across normal and transient conditions.
• Define I&C requirements, set points, and instrument specifications, and establish interfaces with plant systems.
• Support failure modes, reliability, and safety analyses for control and protection functions.
• Document I&C designs, simulator validation results, and as-built configurations, and support design reviews and integration testing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior