Safety Analysis Engineer (Nuclear Safety)

Location: Santa Clara, California or remote within the United States. Remote employees must travel to the Santa Clara headquarters twice per quarter for business or team needs, including meetings, off-sites, and company events.

Salary: $85,000–$165,000 annually

Company

hirify.global develops advanced fission power plants, nuclear fuel recycling technologies, and critical radioisotope supply chains to deliver clean and reliable energy.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain safety basis documents in accordance with Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations and guidance.
• Support Integrated Safety Analysis, Criticality Safety Evaluations, Fire Hazard Analysis, and Natural Phenomena Hazard analysis.
• Identify and evaluate radiological, criticality, chemical, fire, and natural phenomena hazards and accident sequences using inductive and deductive methods.
• Perform deterministic consequence severity calculations for radiological and chemical source terms and doses.
• Perform qualitative and semi-quantitative likelihood calculations, including layers of protection analysis.
• Designate Items Relied On For Safety and develop management measures to ensure their availability and reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical, mechanical, nuclear engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3–5 years of experience in nuclear safety, process safety, or similar high-hazard environments.
• Experience with Hazard and Operability Study and Failure Modes and Effects Analysis methods.
• Ability to communicate technical content and results clearly in writing and verbally.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, highly iterative startup environment and develop creative solutions to open-ended technical problems.

Nice to have

• Master’s or Ph.D. in a relevant engineering discipline.
• NRC-licensed fuel cycle facility safety basis development experience.
• Experience with RADTRAD, MELCOR/MACCS, ARCON, PAVAN, event tree analysis, or fault tree analysis.
• Knowledge of NUREG-1513, NUREG-1520, NUREG-1718, and related regulatory frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Startup environment focused on collaboration, humility, ownership, and pathfinding.
• Flexible time off and flexible work hours.
• Bonuses, equity, competitive pay, 401(k), health insurance, and FSA.
• Employment may be contingent on successful completion of a drug screening, with testing possible in accordance with company policy and applicable laws.