Lead OT Engineer - Reactor (Nuclear Energy)

Location: Onsite in Torrance, California, United States. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.

Salary: $160,000–$210,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is a young advanced-energy startup developing scalable, high-temperature nuclear power, including reactor systems and fuel fabrication.

What you will do

• Own the reactor program’s daily OT work plan, workload, priorities, and delivery commitments.
• Assign work, set expectations, coach team members, provide candid feedback, and manage accountability.
• Coordinate installation, testing, maintenance, commissioning, and turnover with engineers, vendors, contractors, and site stakeholders.
• Maintain current plans, site-work status, vendor activities, dependencies, issues, and handoff records.
• Maintain as-built structured cabling drawings for site and reactor network systems.
• Remove obstacles, escalate constraints, obtain engineering and acceptance decisions, and follow work through verified completion.

Requirements

• Direct people-management or supervisory experience covering assignments, expectations, coaching, feedback, and accountability for completion.
• Experience coordinating concurrent technical or operational work involving specialists, vendors, resources, schedules, and dependencies.
• Ability to maintain clear priorities, realistic work plans, accurate status and issue records, and dependable follow-through under pressure.
• Experience removing delivery obstacles, escalating consequential issues, and coordinating handoffs against engineering requirements and acceptance decisions within delegated authority.
• Experience coordinating site work and handoffs against installation readiness, approved test prerequisites, and engineering acceptance decisions.
• Technical specialization and hands-on engineering execution are not required; qualified nontechnical people managers are eligible.

Nice to have

• Experience leading installation, commissioning, maintenance, or test-facility work.
• Experience coordinating work across engineering, construction, operations, and vendors.
• Familiarity with OT infrastructure, controlled work processes, or facility testing.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy.
• Competitive base salary and equity ownership.
• Comprehensive medical benefits and unlimited PTO.
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite, plus a generous PPE stipend.
• Opportunities for rapid career growth, internal advancement, and direct collaboration with operators, engineers, and industry leaders.