Senior Reliability Engineer (Nuclear Energy)

Location: On-site in Austin, Texas; candidates must be based in the United States

Company

hirify.global Atomics develops factory-fabricated microreactors for affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power, including the 10 MWe hirify.global-1 reactor.

What you will do

• Develop and advance reliability engineering methods for components, subsystems, and modular assemblies.
• Define reliability requirements, allocations, predictions, verification strategies, plans, reports, and technical justifications.
• Design and review experiments, including accelerated-life, degradation, highly accelerated, and combined-stress testing.
• Apply statistical models and analyze test and field data to estimate failure rates, life distributions, confidence intervals, and uncertainty.
• Lead or support FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, common-cause evaluations, and root-cause investigations.
• Collaborate with design, test, manufacturing, quality, safety, systems, and supplier-quality teams to improve robustness, maintainability, and service life.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Nuclear, Systems, Materials, Aerospace, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• At least seven years of relevant experience in reliability engineering, product assurance, test engineering, or a related field.
• Experience developing and critically reviewing designs of experiments for reliability estimation or demonstration.
• Strong knowledge of reliability statistics, life-data analysis, confidence intervals, sample-size determination, accelerated testing, and incomplete or censored data.
• Experience applying FMEA/FMECA, fault-tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, reliability growth, and root-cause analysis to physical components and integrated hardware.
• U.S. citizenship or U.S. person status is required for compliance with 10 CFR Part 810; non-compliant foreign citizenships are not permitted.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Reliability Engineering, Statistics, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in nuclear energy, aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial equipment, or another regulated or safety-critical industry.
• Familiarity with probabilistic risk assessment, Bayesian reliability methods, physics-of-failure modeling, and degradation mechanisms.
• Experience with Python, R, JMP, Minitab, MATLAB, ReliaSoft, or equivalent tools.
• Certified Reliability Engineer or comparable professional certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative and supportive engineering environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and intellectually challenging work.
• Paid time off.
• Corporate gym membership.
• Strong focus on quality assurance and safety-critical engineering rigor.