Licensing Engineer (Nuclear)

Location: Idaho Falls, United States. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents, refugees, asylees, or eligible to obtain the required U.S. authorizations under government export regulations.

Salary: $115,000–$190,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is a Series C startup developing mass-producible, inherently safe microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space applications.

What you will do

• Develop and execute licensing and regulatory engagement strategies for the R1 product line and future commercial microreactor deployments.
• Identify regulatory and permitting requirements and translate them into actionable design, analysis, program, and documentation requirements.
• Prepare or coordinate licensing plans, technical briefs, white papers, topical reports, application content, and regulator responses.
• Track regulator and stakeholder comments, commitments, decisions, owners, due dates, evidence, and closure status.
• Evaluate products for compliance with the licensing basis and develop alternative compliance approaches with their technical, schedule, cost, and programmatic implications.
• Coordinate cross-functional reviews and regulator engagements with engineering, safety analysis, operations, quality, security, program management, customers, and deployment teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• Experience in systems design or a highly regulated technical environment.
• Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and convert them into clear, implementable, and verifiable requirements.
• Strong technical writing, organization, communication, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to evaluate competing alternatives, communicate tradeoffs, and drive actions to closure in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
• Must satisfy U.S. government export-control requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.

Nice to have

• Experience with NRC reactor licensing, DOE authorization-basis development, or nuclear safety analysis.
• Experience supporting advanced reactors, commercial nuclear facilities, DOE facilities, national laboratories, or research reactors.
• Experience preparing regulatory submittals, responding to regulator requests, and tracking commitments to closure.
• Familiarity with NRC Parts 50, 52, and 70 and emerging advanced-reactor licensing approaches.
• Working knowledge of systems engineering, design control, safety analysis, nuclear quality assurance, or configuration management.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission focused on advanced nuclear energy, clean energy, defense, and space applications.
• Values systems thinking, end-user focus, unconventional solutions, nuanced decision-making, and action-oriented collaboration.
• Encourages direct engagement with customers, users, and stakeholders.
• Offers a significant stock option package in addition to salary.

Hiring process

• Compensation is determined based on experience, education, skills, and abilities demonstrated during the interview process.