Staff OT Engineer
About The Position
Valar Atomics is hiring a Staff OT Engineer within its Engineering organization, supporting Instrumentation & Controls. The team designs systems that monitor, automate, and protect the company’s facilities and reactor technologies. This role turns operating needs into technical decisions, practical designs, and standards that execution teams can use, and follows those decisions through implementation. The work may focus on one specialty or span connected disciplines. OT Engineering covers power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, physical and cybersecurity, operational data, and industrial software platforms (FactoryTalk). FactoryTalk work includes backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery. PLC programming and controls-code development are outside the scope of this role. The engineer will translate operational needs into requirements, interfaces, design choices, and measurable acceptance criteria; develop implementation-ready standards, drawings, manuals, and procedures; evaluate alternatives and document the basis for important decisions; and work with execution teams to resolve questions and validate implementation. Commissioning, operational, and failure evidence will inform improvements to designs and standards. The role calls for organized task tracking, accurate documentation, sound engineering judgment, precise technical writing, and ownership of design outcomes through implementation. 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
- Authorship of technical designs, standards, or procedures used successfully by implementation or operations teams.
- Ability to translate operational needs into requirements, interface definitions, engineering decisions, and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Ability to evaluate alternatives, dependencies, failure modes, security, recovery, and lifecycle consequences using evidence.
- Ability to review work, resolve ambiguity, guide execution, and validate documentation against implementation and test results.
- Demonstrated expertise in at least one listed specialty; expertise across every specialty is not required.
- Highly organized, with disciplined task tracking, accurate documentation, clear priorities, and reliable follow-through.
- Clear engineering judgment to turn incomplete information into justified, implementable decisions.
- Precise writing and diagrams that enable another engineer to build and test the intended system.
- Ownership of design outcomes through implementation.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing technical standards used across multiple projects, programs, or sites.
- Hands-on installation, commissioning, troubleshooting, or operational support that informs practical engineering guidance.
- Experience reviewing interfaces and shared dependencies across multiple infrastructure disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Translate operational needs into clear requirements, interfaces, design choices, and measurable acceptance criteria.
- Develop standards, drawings, engineering manuals, and procedures with sufficient detail for implementation and testing.
- Evaluate alternatives for reliability, security, compatibility, recovery, maintainability, and lifecycle needs within the assigned technical scope.
- Resolve ambiguous or conflicting requirements and document the technical basis for consequential decisions.
- Work with execution teams to answer design questions, review implementation evidence, and correct gaps in guidance.
- Use commissioning, operational, and failure evidence to improve designs and standards.
- Take ownership of design outcomes through implementation, revising guidance when field evidence shows it needs to change.
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
- The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
