Strategic Finance Associate (Nuclear Energy)

Location: Los Angeles, United States. Applicants must be eligible under U.S. government export regulations, including U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent residence, refugee or asylee status, or eligibility to obtain the required authorizations.

Salary: $150,000–$180,000 per year, plus a significant stock option package.

Company

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

What you will do

• Own and improve integrated long-range financial models covering the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and operating forecasts.
• Build models for manufacturing, reactor deployments, pricing, capital investments, company growth, and project-level economics.
• Develop reactor unit economics, cost curves, margin analyses, production scaling models, and manufacturing capacity analyses.
• Evaluate government and commercial contracts, including milestones, profitability, cash requirements, and returns.
• Support planning, forecasting, cash management, runway analysis, capital allocation, and strategic decision-making.
• Prepare analyses and materials for leadership, the Board of Directors, investors, lenders, and strategic partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in investment banking, private equity or growth investing, strategic finance, corporate finance, or a high-growth operating company.
• Exceptional financial modeling and analytical skills, including the ability to build complex models from the ground up.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, valuation, corporate finance, and investment analysis.
• Ability to structure ambiguous business questions, perform analysis, and communicate clear recommendations to financial and non-financial audiences.
• High proficiency in Excel and financial modeling, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Must meet applicable U.S. government export-control eligibility requirements.

Nice to have

• Investment banking experience, ideally followed by an operating finance role.
• Experience in aerospace and defense, energy, infrastructure, industrials, manufacturing, or another hard-tech industry.
• Experience with project finance, infrastructure finance, government contracts, manufacturing cost structures, unit economics, energy markets, power generation, or nuclear energy.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on advanced nuclear energy projects spanning defense, climate, manufacturing, and space applications.
• Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, nuclear, operations, and business development.
• Work in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Teams prioritize in-person collaboration and face-to-face engagement with customers, users, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work long hours and weekends when required for critical milestones.
• Stock option package in addition to base salary.