Senior IC&E Reactor Protection System Design Engineer (Nuclear)

Location: Onsite at the Alameda, California headquarters; approximately 10% travel may be required.

Salary: $140,600–$165,000 annually for employees working onsite in Alameda, California.

Company

hirify.global develops fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor technology intended to support the transition to clean energy.

What you will do

• Design and develop analog and digital circuits for instrumentation and control systems, including signal conditioning, power distribution, and control logic.
• Create and review schematics and PCB layouts, support system architecture, define interfaces, and integrate hardware.
• Prototype, bring up, debug, validate, and qualify safety-critical hardware using laboratory instrumentation.
• Design Reactor Protection System hardware using fault tolerance, redundancy, and fail-safe principles.
• Develop test plans, procedures, reports, bills of materials, configuration records, and traceable engineering documentation.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, procurement, testing, systems engineering, suppliers, and quality teams while resolving integration and production challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 6 years of relevant engineering experience involving electronic hardware, instrumentation and control systems, or related systems design.
• Experience in a regulated or high-reliability environment such as nuclear, aerospace, or medical technology.
• Demonstrated analog and digital circuit design experience, including schematic capture and PCB design tools such as Altium, Cadence, or KiCad.
• Experience with laboratory instrumentation, hardware debugging, verification, validation, integration, and qualification testing.
• Work onsite in Alameda, California and comply with applicable Department of Energy Part 810 export-control access requirements.

Nice to have

• Experience with PCB stack-up, routing constraints, grounding, signal integrity, component derating, and EMI/EMC considerations.
• Structured root-cause analysis, failure analysis, and hardware integration experience.
• Exposure to FPGA or programmable logic, embedded systems, microcontrollers, firmware bring-up, or HDL.
• Experience taking hardware designs from concept through testing or integration.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employees may receive medical, dental, and vision benefits for themselves and dependents.
• Paid vacation and competitive compensation packages.
• 401(k), pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits through FSA programs.
• Work includes office, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, industrial, noisy, and enclosed environments with required personal protective equipment.
• Occasional extended hours may be required to support launches and critical project timelines.