Nuclear Safety Engineer

Ocean Atomics

2d • $95,000 - $220,000

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 nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Direct experience developing safety cases and PRA models for nuclear or comparable safety-critical systems.
• Proficiency with PRA methods and tools (fault tree/event tree analysis, reliability data, SAPHIRE or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of nuclear safety standards and regulatory frameworks (NRC, IMO, naval, or international equivalents).
• Early-career engineers with PRA or safety analysis exposure through internships, coursework, or early-career roles in nuclear or other safety-critical industries (L1-L2).
• Have led at least one complete safety case or PRA development cycle through design review or licensing submission, in commercial nuclear, naval reactors, or comparable regulated environments (L3-L4).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with marine or naval reactor systems, or safety-critical systems in other regulated maritime or aerospace domains.
• Background interfacing directly with regulators or classification societies (ABS, LR, etc.) on licensing submissions.
• Advanced degree in nuclear engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the safety case and supporting PRA models (event trees, fault trees, and risk quantification) for the reactor and associated ship systems.
• Identify initiating events and failure modes, perform hazard and accident analyses, and quantify risk to verify compliance with safety acceptance criteria.
• Use PRA findings to inform and optimize engineering design, feeding risk-driven requirements directly into system architecture decisions.
• Support design reviews and trade studies, translating safety findings into requirements and design changes for secondary and balance-of-plant systems.
• Maintain safety documentation and traceability through configuration changes, operational feedback, and as-built modifications.
• Lead engagement with regulators, classification societies (ABS, LR, etc.), and internal review boards, and prepare licensing and certification deliverables (at L3-L4).
• Mentor newer engineers and review their PRA models and safety analyses (at L3-L4).

What This Job Offers

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