Vice President, Engineering (Nuclear Engineering)

Location: Columbia, South Carolina, United States

Salary: $250,000–$278,000 annually, paid bi-weekly.

Company

hirify.global is an AI-first technology-enabled startup developing a fleet-scale approach to deploying the next generation of safe, reliable, and affordable nuclear reactors.

What you will do

• Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary nuclear engineering organization and establish its management system, technical authorities, design responsibilities, and decision rights.
• Provide executive engineering leadership across site development, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, turnover, and operations.
• Set engineering plans, priorities, schedules, deliverables, and performance metrics while ensuring design maturity supports procurement and construction.
• Integrate constructability, modularization, supply-chain realities, commissioning, maintenance, reliability, and long-term plant operations into engineering decisions.
• Manage technical interfaces and accountability across reactor technology providers, architect-engineers, EPC partners, utilities, suppliers, and other engineering organizations.
• Develop a repeatable fleet-build model using standardization, configuration control, reusable engineering work products, data, automation, and AI.

Requirements

• 20+ years of engineering and leadership experience in nuclear power, major power generation, or similarly complex regulated infrastructure.
• Significant experience with commercial nuclear power plants or nuclear new-build projects across engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, major projects, or asset management.
• Deep understanding of nuclear plant systems, engineering programs, configuration management, design control, and industry standards.
• Experience leading large multidisciplinary engineering teams and managing architect-engineers, OEMs, EPC organizations, utilities, and major suppliers.
• Ability to resolve complex technical and execution challenges while balancing nuclear safety, quality, cost, schedule, constructability, and operability.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline; an advanced degree or Professional Engineer license is preferred.

Nice to have

• Advanced engineering degree.
• Professional Engineer license.
• Knowledge of lessons learned from recent U.S. and international nuclear construction programs.

Culture & Benefits

• AI-first work environment using AI, technology, and the Nuclear Operating System to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution.
• Culture guided by transparency, responsibility, unity, scrappiness, tenacity, intellectual honesty, accountability, and continuous learning.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous vacation policy and holidays.