Nuclearn-posted 3 months ago
$200,000 - $230,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Phoenix, AZ
11-50 employees

Nuclearn.ai builds AI-powered software for the nuclear and utility industries - tools that keep critical infrastructure reliable, efficient, and safe. Our platform integrates AI-driven workflow, documentation, and research automation and is already used at 60+ nuclear reactors across North America. We’re looking for a Staff Engineer to take on the hardest technical problems across our stack and help scale our systems, reliability, and security. This is a hands-on, deeply technical role for someone who can lead architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver production-grade AI in regulated environments. You’ll partner with leadership but remain an individual contributor—your impact is through technical design, code, and cross-team influence, not direct people management.

  • Lead design reviews for core systems and integrations, ensuring correctness, safety, and maintainability.
  • Establish typed contracts, schema migration discipline, and resilient messaging/queuing patterns.
  • Drive end-to-end architecture for reliability (retries, backpressure, DLQs, circuit breakers).
  • Ship critical features hands-on: from backend APIs to AI-powered workflows and integrations.
  • Prototype and scale new patterns (retrieval pipelines, secure on-prem deployments, fleet telemetry).
  • Own deep dives into Sentry errors, performance bottlenecks, and infra incidents—then harden systems against recurrence.
  • Embed AI into engineering workflows: automated test synthesis, AI-assisted code review, log summarization, postmortem drafting.
  • Define safe-use patterns for AI copilots, balancing velocity with correctness and auditability.
  • Design and enforce SLOs, error budgets, and telemetry standards.
  • Ensure system reliability across air-gapped, hybrid, and cloud deployments.
  • Lead incident drills, root cause analyses, and resilience testing.
  • Partner with cybersecurity to embed secure design principles (least privilege, identity/SSO, audit trails).
  • Help shape SOC 2/ISO 27001-aligned engineering practices without slowing delivery.
  • Raise the bar for engineers through technical coaching, pairing, and modeling how to tackle complex problems.
  • Shape the engineering culture toward correctness, safety, and thoughtful AI adoption.
  • Experience shipping complex distributed systems or AI-powered features in regulated or safety-critical domains.
  • Hands-on problem solver: ability to debug a Celery queue, reason about infra topologies, and design APIs with typed contracts.
  • Strong focus on correctness and resilience: migrations with backfills, idempotent jobs, secure deployments.
  • Clear communication under pressure, keeping teams focused during alerts.
  • Ability to work across software, infra, security, and product boundaries.
  • Experience with RAG/data pipelines, vector search, feature stores, or LLM ops (prompt/versioning, evals, monitoring).
  • Background in nuclear/utility or other safety-critical industries.
  • SOC 2/ISO 27001 experience.
  • Familiarity with Maximo, DevonWay, Microsoft 365 integrations.
  • Base salary: $200k - $230k
  • Equity: 0.05% - 0.25%
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Health/dental/vision insurance
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