Senior Plant Reliability Engineer (Nuclear)

Location: Onsite in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Approximately 25% travel across company sites and project locations; schedule flexibility and shift coverage may be required.

Competitive compensation package; exact salary not specified.

Company

hirify.global develops fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature nuclear reactors intended to support clean energy generation with safe, affordable, and flexible operation.

What you will do

• Lead integrated reliability assessments, hazard evaluations, and technical investigations for nuclear and non-nuclear hardware demonstration projects.
• Integrate reliability considerations across hardware design, manufacturing, testing, commissioning, and operations.
• Evaluate risk-analysis results against acceptance criteria and characterize residual risk.
• Analyze operating experience and equipment performance data to improve component reliability, plant availability, and future projects.
• Communicate technical conclusions, assumptions, uncertainties, and residual risks to multidisciplinary teams and leadership.
• Support commissioning and operations, including shift coverage and occasional hands-on fabrication, assembly, testing, and installation work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nuclear, reliability, mechanical, chemical, materials, systems engineering, or another relevant technical discipline.
• At least 10 years of engineering experience supporting plant-system and component reliability and performance.
• Experience performing integrated reliability and risk analyses using methods such as FMEA, HAZOP, what-if analysis, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, or dependency analysis.
• Ability to independently lead technical assessments and investigations and document conclusions in a fast-paced environment with incomplete or evolving information.
• Experience communicating complex technical findings, building cross-functional alignment, reviewing technical work, and mentoring engineers.
• Ability to work onsite in a facility subject to Department of Energy Part 810 export-control requirements; authorization to access controlled information is required.

Nice to have

• Experience analyzing operating, failure, maintenance, and outage data to evaluate equipment unavailability and plant availability.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision benefits for themselves and dependents.
• Paid vacation is provided.
• Benefits include a 401(k), pre-tax health insurance, dependent-care, and commuter benefits through an FSA.
• Work includes office, prototyping, testing, industrial, manufacturing, and construction environments with required personal protective equipment.
• Equal opportunity workplace welcoming diverse experiences, abilities, and perspectives.