Systems Engineer (Nuclear Energy)

Location: Alameda, California; Albuquerque, New Mexico; or remote within the United States. The role may involve periodic work in laboratory, manufacturing, industrial, test-facility, or controlled environments, some travel, and occasional schedule flexibility for project milestones.

Salary: $122,270–$143,847 annually for employees working onsite at the Alameda, California headquarters.

Company

Develops fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature nuclear reactors designed to provide safe, affordable, and flexible clean energy.

What you will do

• Develop, allocate, maintain, and trace technical requirements across product and plant architectures.
• Translate program objectives, stakeholder needs, design inputs, and regulatory considerations into verifiable requirements.
• Perform functional analysis and decomposition while developing functional, logical, and physical system architectures.
• Define and manage interfaces between systems, organizations, suppliers, facilities, and external partners.
• Develop verification strategies, plans, acceptance criteria, and evidence for demonstrating requirement compliance.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary technical reviews, resolve cross-functional integration issues, and manage technical risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems, mechanical, nuclear, electrical, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field.
• Professional experience applying systems engineering methods to complex engineering programs or products.
• Experience with requirements development, allocation, maintenance, traceability, functional analysis, architecture development, interface management, integration, or verification and validation.
• Experience coordinating technical reviews or leading focused cross-functional engineering activities.
• Strong technical writing, communication, presentation, analytical, and interpersonal skills.
• Access to controlled facility information requires Department of Energy authorization under 10 CFR Part 810; applicable foreign-national licensing restrictions may apply.

Nice to have

• Experience in nuclear energy, power generation, aerospace, defense, energy, or another highly regulated industry.
• Experience with Jama Connect, model-based systems engineering, configuration management, design reviews, trade studies, or technical baseline management.
• Familiarity with nuclear quality, licensing, safety, regulatory practices, ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, or the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage for themselves and dependents.
• Paid vacation and competitive compensation are provided.
• Benefits include 401(k), pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits through an FSA.
• Work includes collaboration across engineering, project management, licensing, quality, operations, suppliers, and external partners.
• Safety procedures and required personal protective equipment apply in laboratory, test, manufacturing, industrial, and controlled areas.