Senior Licensing Engineer (Civil Structural, Nuclear)

Location: Onsite in Alameda, CA; Albuquerque, NM; or Oakridge, TN. Business travel of 25–35% is required. Occasional schedule flexibility and extended hours may be needed during launches and critical project milestones.

Salary: $140,000–$166,000 annually for employees working onsite at the Alameda, CA headquarters. Compensation varies by education, experience, skills, and work location.

Company

hirify.global develops fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor technology intended to support safe, affordable, and flexible clean-energy generation.

What you will do

• Develop licensing document content, regulatory submittals, topical reports, and supporting products for reactor facility civil and structural systems.
• Lead the planning, development, and defense of license applications and support pre-application interactions with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• Develop licensing strategies and resolve issues involving structural design criteria, seismic design and qualification, material qualification, and design-basis loads.
• Translate regulatory requirements into traceable civil and structural design, analysis, testing, inspection, and program requirements.
• Coordinate engineering, safety analysis, construction, technology development, testing, inspection, and qualification activities.
• Support execution plans covering schedules, milestones, cost models, and decision criteria.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Civil, Structural, Nuclear, or a related engineering field.
• At least 6 years of experience in facility or system design, analysis, construction, qualification, inspection, or implementation.
• Strong civil or structural engineering experience, including evaluation, design, construction, and implementation of new technologies.
• Ability to interpret technical and regulatory requirements and prepare accurate, technically defensible licensing documents and reports.
• Ability to lead complex technical and regulatory issue resolution across multiple engineering disciplines and stakeholders.
• Work authorization may be affected by U.S. Department of Energy Part 810 export-control requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience developing Preliminary or Final Safety Analysis Reports, especially sections covering structures, systems, and components.
• Prior nuclear licensing experience; training is available for candidates without it.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision benefits for themselves and dependents.
• Paid vacation is provided.
• Benefits include 401(k), pre-tax health insurance, dependent-care, and commuter benefits through FSA programs.
• Work includes office, outdoor, noisy, high-concentration, and fast-paced environments.
• Physical work may involve ladders, scaffolding, confined spaces, PPE, and handling objects up to 40 pounds.