Technical Program Manager, Government (Nuclear Energy)

Location: 100% onsite at hirify.global's headquarters in El Segundo, California, United States

Salary: $115,000–$168,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global is a startup developing factory-built, portable nuclear microreactors, including the 1-megawatt Kaleidos reactor for hospitals, data centers, remote sites, and military bases.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end delivery of government contract programs and serve as the single point of accountability for contract deliverables.
• Drive technical milestones and coordinate regulatory, engineering, siting, manufacturing, and reactor deployment deliverables.
• Act as the primary interface with contracting officers, program offices, installation personnel, and end users.
• Build and maintain integrated master schedules and cost baselines for internal teams and subcontractors.
• Manage contract compliance, reporting, milestone billing, contract modifications, and change orders.
• Identify and resolve program risks and dependencies while managing budgets, resource forecasts, processes, tools, and reporting cadence.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of program management or project management experience.
• Experience delivering complex capital equipment or large-scale industrial systems.
• Experience supporting U.S. government programs and managing technically complex programs with parallel workstreams.
• U.S. citizenship is required with no exceptions.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Must work 100% onsite at the El Segundo headquarters.

Nice to have

• Experience with electric power infrastructure projects and power delivery services.
• Experience building or deploying infrastructure at Department of Defense installations.
• Knowledge of FAR/DFARS compliance, government contract types, federal reporting, and audit requirements.
• Active DoD security clearance.

Culture & Benefits

• Substantial incentive stock plan for full-time employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with dependent contributions, plus One Medical memberships.
• Eight weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, with additional paid pregnancy leave for California employees.
• Flexible PTO, daily catered lunch, snacks and drinks, and company and team events.
• Extended hours and weekends may be required when necessary to accomplish the mission.
• Remote workday allocation is available, while this role remains primarily onsite.