Lead Electrical and Instrumentation Engineer (Nuclear)

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: $196,000–$240,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global is developing scalable, high-temperature nuclear power systems for industrial energy, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor E&I engineers, designers, and contract engineering firms while owning assigned scope, schedule, budget, and hiring support.
• Select and specify process instrumentation, analyzers, gas detection, control and shutdown valves, and maintain instrument indexes, data sheets, loop diagrams, and installation details.
• Design low-voltage power distribution for process areas and facilities, including MCCs, VFDs, transformers, heat tracing, lighting, grounding, raceways, and cables.
• Develop E&I standards, installation details, preferred equipment lists, and specification templates; review vendor packages, support bid evaluation, and witness factory acceptance tests.
• Represent E&I in HAZOP, LOPA, and MOC reviews while maintaining records consistent with nuclear quality requirements.
• Lead field commissioning through walkdowns, inspections, as-builts, loop checks, calibration verification, energization, motor and VFD startup, troubleshooting, and turnover to operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• 10+ years of E&I engineering experience in process industries, power generation, or comparable industrial facilities.
• Hands-on experience specifying process instrumentation and valves.
• Low-voltage electrical design experience for industrial facilities, including motor control, grounding, and hazardous area classification.
• Experience owning E&I capital projects from design through field commissioning, including performing or directing loop checks, energization, and startup.
• Experience directing and reviewing the work of engineers, designers, or contractors.
• Working knowledge of NEC, ISA, API, and IEEE standards and process safety reviews including HAZOP, LOPA, and MOC.
• Working familiarity with DCS and PLC systems at the I/O and control-narrative level.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident is required.

Nice to have

• Professional Engineer registration and supervisory or people-management experience.
• Experience at nuclear or other high-consequence regulated facilities, including NQA-1, 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, or PSM-covered sites.
• Functional safety experience with IEC 61511 or ISA-84.
• Experience reducing project cost through value engineering or standardization.
• Instrumentation experience in high-temperature or specialty gas service.
• Experience with first-of-a-kind or greenfield programs, including building E&I standards from scratch.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership, autonomy, and opportunities for rapid career growth.
• Competitive base salary and equity ownership.
• Comprehensive medical benefits and unlimited PTO.
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite and a generous PPE stipend.
• Direct collaboration with operators, engineers, and industry leaders while building advanced energy technology from the ground up.