Design Control Lead (Nuclear Engineering)

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Salary: $153,862–$205,149 per year

Company

hirify.global is a nuclear technology company developing advanced nuclear reactors, hybrid energy systems, and medical isotope applications.

What you will do

• Lead the development, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of design-control processes, procedures, tools, templates, and performance measures.
• Define traceability methods connecting design inputs, analyses, decisions, outputs, verification activities, and configuration-controlled records.
• Develop and implement engineering change-control methods covering evaluation, approvals, implementation, verification, and closure.
• Provide design-control oversight to engineering teams, suppliers, contractors, and partner design organizations.
• Coordinate with Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Licensing, Procurement, Digital Engineering, and product-development teams.
• Lead audits, surveillances, training, qualification programs, corrective-action investigations, and process-improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nuclear, mechanical, electrical, chemical, civil, systems, or another relevant engineering discipline.
• At least 10–15 years of relevant engineering experience in nuclear power, Department of Energy facilities, or another highly regulated and technically complex industry.
• Experience implementing nuclear design control under 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B; ASME NQA-1; or an equivalent quality-assurance framework.
• Strong knowledge of design inputs and outputs, design analysis and verification, design changes and interfaces, configuration management, and design records.
• Experience with engineering procedures, complex engineering work products, audits, self-assessments, root-cause evaluations, and corrective actions.
• Applicants must satisfy U.S. Government export-control requirements; U.S. citizenship or nationality, asylee or refugee status, or U.S. lawful permanent residency may affect eligibility.

Nice to have

• Advanced engineering degree or related technical qualification.
• Commercial nuclear power, systems engineering, engineering-programs, or design-authority experience.
• Experience with NRC inspections, licensing reviews, regulatory interactions, advanced reactor licensing, or first-of-a-kind reactor development.
• Familiarity with ASME NQA-1 Requirement 3, NRC Regulatory Guides, and licensing modernization methodologies.
• Experience with requirements management, product lifecycle management, document management, configuration management, and digital engineering systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary with eligibility for discretionary short-term incentive payments.
• Medical, vision, dental, life, disability, wellness, and gender affirmation benefits.
• 401(k) plan, parental leave, 21 days of accrued annual PTO, and 10 paid holidays.
• Relocation assistance and professional and educational support opportunities.
• Work in a first-of-a-kind nuclear technology environment emphasizing nuclear safety, technical rigor, conservative decision-making, and continuous learning.