Senior OT Engineer

Valar Atomics • Orangeville, UT

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About The Position

Valar Atomics is hiring a Senior OT Engineer within its Engineering organization. The Instrumentation & Controls team designs systems that monitor, automate, and protect company facilities and reactor technologies. OT Engineering delivers power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, physical and cybersecurity, operational data, and industrial software platforms such as FactoryTalk. The FactoryTalk scope includes backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery; PLC programming and controls-code development are outside this role.

The engineer takes defined implementation or testing objectives through planning, execution, troubleshooting, and verified delivery. The role owns results for assigned systems, makes decisions within established standards, and resolves interfaces with other engineers. Work includes independently implementing and operating systems or preparing, executing, and diagnosing system tests. The successful candidate is organized, documents work accurately, follows through, troubleshoots based on evidence, and escalates design or scope decisions when needed. The position requires travel to company facilities in Torrance and Orangeville, Utah, approximately 15% of the time.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. Valar Atomics is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation as required by law.

Requirements

• 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 and verify that corrective actions resolve the problem.
• Maintain controlled configurations and usable records, coordinate interfaces, and escalate decisions beyond authority.
• Meet the basic qualifications and demonstrate a specialty in at least one of the listed areas; expertise across every specialty is not required.
• Be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).

Nice To Haves

• Specialty in one or more of the following areas: power distribution and backup; racks and cabling; compute, storage, and virtualization; industrial software backends; networking; technical documentation supported by hands-on testing; Windows domain administration; access control; central logging and authentication; log and packet analysis; or operational data systems.

Responsibilities

• Turn defined objectives into practical implementation or test plans, including 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, and 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.
• Plan methods, interfaces, dependencies, resources, testing, and turnover within established standards.
• Maintain controlled configurations and usable records, coordinate interfaces, and escalate decisions beyond authority.
• Travel to company facilities in Torrance and Orangeville, Utah, approximately 15% of the time.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
• Generous PPE stipend
• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
• Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
• Opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed