Lead Electrical Engineer
Valar Atomics · Los Angeles, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$196k/yrFull-time
We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we have content: About Valar Atomics (company description) maybe not needed as heading? The instruction: use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real, specific content. We have content: About Valar Atomics (company description) maybe not a standard heading but could be "About the role"? Actually "About Valar Atomics" is company overview. Could be placed under a heading like "About the role"? But that heading is for role description. The instruction says use those headings as examples; we can use other headings? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real, specific content. We have content: About Valar Atomics (company description) maybe not a standard heading but could be "About the role"? Actually "About Valar Atomics" is company overview. Could be placed under a heading like "About the role"? But that heading is for role description. The instruction says use those headings as examples; we can use other headings? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Likely we should stick to those headings if content matches. We have:
- About Valar Atomics (company overview) maybe could be under "About the role"? Not exactly. Could be omitted? But we need to preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot drop company description. Could we put it under a heading like "About Valar Atomics"? The instruction didn't forbid other headings, just gave examples. It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities...). So we can use other headings as needed, but must be . We'll include headings: About Valar Atomics, The Team, The Role (maybe not needed as heading because job title already shown). But we should not repeat job title as heading. "The Role" could be considered a heading but it's similar to "About the role". Might be okay. However we need to avoid filler. We'll include sections: About Valar Atomics, Team Overview, Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Qualifications (Basic Qualifications), Preferred Skills, Benefits (What We Offer), Pay (Salary). Also maybe Schedule not present, so omit.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities list, we need to break into bullet points. The responsibilities are long paragraphs with multiple items; we can split into bullet points each starting with a bold? But we just need to wrap each duty in
- . We'll parse the responsibilities section: "Team Leadership and Organization Building" etc. We'll create bullet points for each major responsibility.
Similarly for qualifications: list of basic qualifications each as bullet.
Preferred skills: bullet list.
Benefits: bullet list.
Pay: we have salary range; we can put in
maybe under Pay heading.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement, application instructions, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; we need to include company description, team description, role description, responsibilities, qualifications, preferred skills, benefits, pay.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the specifics.
We'll produce HTML fragment with
headings and appropriate
or
.
Let's extract content:
About Valar Atomics paragraph: "At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level."
The Team paragraph: "You will lead Valar Atomics' Electrical Engineering team within the Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. The team delivers the electrical infrastructure that powers and is powered by Valar's facilities, from utility and grid interconnection through generation, MV distribution, process area LV systems, and emergency power across the reactor program, fuel manufacturing operations, and power generation and distribution scope. You will work alongside I&C, mechanical, process, power conversion, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where power system integrity directly supports production reliability and nuclear safety, with some of the most technically interesting generation and distribution challenges in the advanced nuclear sector. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture, and you will set that tone for the engineers you hire."
The Role paragraph: "Valar Atomics is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer to lead and build our electrical engineering team, and to own electrical engineering delivery across the full plant scope, Reactor, Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing, Power Generation, and Power Distribution. This is a player-coach role: you will be both the team's leader, hiring, developing, directing, and growing electrical engineers across our career ladder, and its most senior technical voice while that team is built, with design responsibility spanning LV, MV, and HV systems from utility interconnection and the generation switchyard through medium voltage distribution to process and facility low voltage systems. You will own the electrical architecture of a first-of-a-kind nuclear power plant, including its power generation electrical scope: generator integration, excitation and protection, step-up transformation, and grid interconnection. This role builds the organization it will lead."
Key Responsibilities: we have a big block with headings: Team Leadership and Organization Building, Technical Leadership and Delivery, Program Coordination. We'll break each bullet.
Let's extract bullet points:
Team Leadership and Organization Building:
- Build the electrical engineering team: define roles and requisitions across the Engineer / Senior / Staff / Principal ladder with the Director, recruit and interview candidates, own hiring recommendations, and onboard and integrate new engineers.
- Lead the team day to day: assign and prioritize work across the four plant areas, direct and review technical output, manage performance, and develop each engineer's technical depth and progression along the ladder.
- Own engineering resourcing strategy: workload forecasting across Reactor, Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing, Power Generation, and Power Distribution scopes; internal versus contractor engineering allocation; and technical direction and oversight of engineering subcontractors and consultants.
- Establish the discipline's ways of working — checking practice, calculation and study bases, design standards, and documentation discipline — and evolve their ownership to Staff and Principal engineers as the team grows.
Technical Leadership and Delivery:
- Own electrical engineering delivery across all four plant areas: the scope, quality, and schedule of power system studies, designs, specifications, and construction and commissioning support produced by the team.
- Own the plant electrical architecture end-to-end across voltage classes: HV utility interconnection and switchyard, generator and generator step-up (GSU) transformer integration, MV distribution, LV process and facility systems, emergency and standby power, and DC/UPS systems.
- Own the power generation electrical scope: generator specification and integration with the power conversion system, excitation and voltage regulation, generator and interconnection protection, synchronization, auxiliary power, and grid code and interconnection technical requirements.
- Serve as the discipline's senior technical authority: approve power system studies (load flow, short circuit, arc flash, protection coordination, grounding), one-line development, protection philosophy and relay settings, and major equipment specifications, delegating approval authority to Staff and Principal engineers as they are hired.
- Own the utility and AHJ technical relationships: interconnection studies and agreements, protection interface requirements, code interpretation and compliance strategy, and inspection support.
- Lead the electrical discipline in interdisciplinary design reviews, HAZOP studies, and licensing-support activities; represent the discipline's position at program level and own resolution of cross-discipline conflicts.
- Lead vendor engagement for major electrical packages: pre-qualification, technical bid evaluation, award recommendation, factory acceptance activities, and escalation of systemic vendor issues.
Program Coordination:
- Coordinate electrical scope and interfaces across the reactor, fuel manufacturing, power conversion, and site infrastructure programs, including load growth, sequencing of energisation, and shared distribution infrastructure decisions.
- Advise IC&E leadership on electrical technical risk, resourcing, and sequencing; provide independent technical judgment where schedule and cost pressure intersect engineering integrity.
- Maintain disciplined engineering records consistent with nuclear quality requirements, ensuring traceability of design decisions, analyses, and test results, and setting the example for the team's documentation culture.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience across power generation, utility, process, or industrial projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading an electrical engineering team: assigning and directing work, reviewing and approving other engineers' output, and developing engineers — not solely project or matrix leadership.
- Experience building an engineering team through direct hiring: defining roles, recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding engineers you then led.
- Substantial power generation electrical experience, including generator integration, excitation, generator and interconnection protection, GSU transformers, switchyard or substation scope, and grid interconnection requirements. Experience from cogeneration / combined heat and power (CHP) facilities fully satisfies this requirement.
- Demonstrated design proficiency across LV, MV, and HV systems — from utility/transmission-level interconnection and switchyards through MV distribution to LV process and facility systems, including the studies, protection, and equipment specification appropriate to each voltage class.
- Expert-level proficiency in power system analysis (SKM Power Tools, ETAP, PSS/E, or equivalent), including ownership or approval of load flow, short circuit, arc flash, and protection coordination studies.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of electrical scope on at least one major capital project, from front-end design through energisation and commissioning.
- Strong working knowledge of applicable codes and standards (NEC/NFPA 70, IEEE including the C37 protection series, NEMA, ANSI, IEC), sufficient to set and defend discipline standards.
- Experience representing an electrical discipline to external parties — utilities, AHJs, regulators, or major vendors.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Professional Engineer (P.E. / P.Eng.) registration or equivalent.
- Experience leading utility interconnection from application through energisation, including interconnection agreements and PPA technical interfaces.
- Nuclear facility electrical experience, including nuclear classification and separation requirements (IEEE 384, Class 1E concepts) or work under NQA-1 / 10 CFR 50 Appendix B quality programs.
- Generator protection expertise (IEEE C37.102) and experience with synchronization, black start, or islanded operation schemes.
- Experience with IEC 61850 substation automation and protection communication.
- Experience with emergency and standby power system design, DC systems, and battery sizing (IEEE 485/1115).
- Experience on first-of-a-kind, prototype, or early-stage plant programs where the electrical organization and its standards had to be built rather than inherited.
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary
- Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
- Generous PPE stipend
- High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
- Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
- Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
- The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up
Pay: Salary: $196,000 USD - $240,000 USD
We should not include EEO statement, etc.
Now produce HTML:
About Valar Atomics
...
The Team
...
The Role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Qualifications
...
Preferred Skills
...
Benefits
...
Pay
Salary: $196,000 USD - $240,000 USD
Make
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities...). So we can use other headings as needed, but must be . We'll include headings: About Valar Atomics, The Team, The Role (maybe not needed as heading because job title already shown). But we should not repeat job title as heading. "The Role" could be considered a heading but it's similar to "About the role". Might be okay. However we need to avoid filler. We'll include sections: About Valar Atomics, Team Overview, Responsibilities (Key Responsibilities), Qualifications (Basic Qualifications), Preferred Skills, Benefits (What We Offer), Pay (Salary). Also maybe Schedule not present, so omit.
We need to use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities list, we need to break into bullet points. The responsibilities are long paragraphs with multiple items; we can split into bullet points each starting with a bold? But we just need to wrap each duty in
- . We'll parse the responsibilities section: "Team Leadership and Organization Building" etc. We'll create bullet points for each major responsibility.
Similarly for qualifications: list of basic qualifications each as bullet.
Preferred skills: bullet list.
Benefits: bullet list.
Pay: we have salary range; we can put in
maybe under Pay heading.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement, application instructions, etc. Remove those.
We must preserve all substantive information; we need to include company description, team description, role description, responsibilities, qualifications, preferred skills, benefits, pay.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the specifics.
We'll produce HTML fragment with
headings and appropriate
or
.
Let's extract content:
About Valar Atomics paragraph: "At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level."
The Team paragraph: "You will lead Valar Atomics' Electrical Engineering team within the Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. The team delivers the electrical infrastructure that powers and is powered by Valar's facilities, from utility and grid interconnection through generation, MV distribution, process area LV systems, and emergency power across the reactor program, fuel manufacturing operations, and power generation and distribution scope. You will work alongside I&C, mechanical, process, power conversion, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where power system integrity directly supports production reliability and nuclear safety, with some of the most technically interesting generation and distribution challenges in the advanced nuclear sector. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture, and you will set that tone for the engineers you hire."
The Role paragraph: "Valar Atomics is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer to lead and build our electrical engineering team, and to own electrical engineering delivery across the full plant scope, Reactor, Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing, Power Generation, and Power Distribution. This is a player-coach role: you will be both the team's leader, hiring, developing, directing, and growing electrical engineers across our career ladder, and its most senior technical voice while that team is built, with design responsibility spanning LV, MV, and HV systems from utility interconnection and the generation switchyard through medium voltage distribution to process and facility low voltage systems. You will own the electrical architecture of a first-of-a-kind nuclear power plant, including its power generation electrical scope: generator integration, excitation and protection, step-up transformation, and grid interconnection. This role builds the organization it will lead."
Key Responsibilities: we have a big block with headings: Team Leadership and Organization Building, Technical Leadership and Delivery, Program Coordination. We'll break each bullet.
Let's extract bullet points:
Team Leadership and Organization Building:
- Build the electrical engineering team: define roles and requisitions across the Engineer / Senior / Staff / Principal ladder with the Director, recruit and interview candidates, own hiring recommendations, and onboard and integrate new engineers.
- Lead the team day to day: assign and prioritize work across the four plant areas, direct and review technical output, manage performance, and develop each engineer's technical depth and progression along the ladder.
- Own engineering resourcing strategy: workload forecasting across Reactor, Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing, Power Generation, and Power Distribution scopes; internal versus contractor engineering allocation; and technical direction and oversight of engineering subcontractors and consultants.
- Establish the discipline's ways of working — checking practice, calculation and study bases, design standards, and documentation discipline — and evolve their ownership to Staff and Principal engineers as the team grows.
Technical Leadership and Delivery:
- Own electrical engineering delivery across all four plant areas: the scope, quality, and schedule of power system studies, designs, specifications, and construction and commissioning support produced by the team.
- Own the plant electrical architecture end-to-end across voltage classes: HV utility interconnection and switchyard, generator and generator step-up (GSU) transformer integration, MV distribution, LV process and facility systems, emergency and standby power, and DC/UPS systems.
- Own the power generation electrical scope: generator specification and integration with the power conversion system, excitation and voltage regulation, generator and interconnection protection, synchronization, auxiliary power, and grid code and interconnection technical requirements.
- Serve as the discipline's senior technical authority: approve power system studies (load flow, short circuit, arc flash, protection coordination, grounding), one-line development, protection philosophy and relay settings, and major equipment specifications, delegating approval authority to Staff and Principal engineers as they are hired.
- Own the utility and AHJ technical relationships: interconnection studies and agreements, protection interface requirements, code interpretation and compliance strategy, and inspection support.
- Lead the electrical discipline in interdisciplinary design reviews, HAZOP studies, and licensing-support activities; represent the discipline's position at program level and own resolution of cross-discipline conflicts.
- Lead vendor engagement for major electrical packages: pre-qualification, technical bid evaluation, award recommendation, factory acceptance activities, and escalation of systemic vendor issues.
Program Coordination:
- Coordinate electrical scope and interfaces across the reactor, fuel manufacturing, power conversion, and site infrastructure programs, including load growth, sequencing of energisation, and shared distribution infrastructure decisions.
- Advise IC&E leadership on electrical technical risk, resourcing, and sequencing; provide independent technical judgment where schedule and cost pressure intersect engineering integrity.
- Maintain disciplined engineering records consistent with nuclear quality requirements, ensuring traceability of design decisions, analyses, and test results, and setting the example for the team's documentation culture.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience across power generation, utility, process, or industrial projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading an electrical engineering team: assigning and directing work, reviewing and approving other engineers' output, and developing engineers — not solely project or matrix leadership.
- Experience building an engineering team through direct hiring: defining roles, recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding engineers you then led.
- Substantial power generation electrical experience, including generator integration, excitation, generator and interconnection protection, GSU transformers, switchyard or substation scope, and grid interconnection requirements. Experience from cogeneration / combined heat and power (CHP) facilities fully satisfies this requirement.
- Demonstrated design proficiency across LV, MV, and HV systems — from utility/transmission-level interconnection and switchyards through MV distribution to LV process and facility systems, including the studies, protection, and equipment specification appropriate to each voltage class.
- Expert-level proficiency in power system analysis (SKM Power Tools, ETAP, PSS/E, or equivalent), including ownership or approval of load flow, short circuit, arc flash, and protection coordination studies.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of electrical scope on at least one major capital project, from front-end design through energisation and commissioning.
- Strong working knowledge of applicable codes and standards (NEC/NFPA 70, IEEE including the C37 protection series, NEMA, ANSI, IEC), sufficient to set and defend discipline standards.
- Experience representing an electrical discipline to external parties — utilities, AHJs, regulators, or major vendors.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Professional Engineer (P.E. / P.Eng.) registration or equivalent.
- Experience leading utility interconnection from application through energisation, including interconnection agreements and PPA technical interfaces.
- Nuclear facility electrical experience, including nuclear classification and separation requirements (IEEE 384, Class 1E concepts) or work under NQA-1 / 10 CFR 50 Appendix B quality programs.
- Generator protection expertise (IEEE C37.102) and experience with synchronization, black start, or islanded operation schemes.
- Experience with IEC 61850 substation automation and protection communication.
- Experience with emergency and standby power system design, DC systems, and battery sizing (IEEE 485/1115).
- Experience on first-of-a-kind, prototype, or early-stage plant programs where the electrical organization and its standards had to be built rather than inherited.
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary
- Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
- Generous PPE stipend
- High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
- Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
- Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
- The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up
Pay: Salary: $196,000 USD - $240,000 USD
We should not include EEO statement, etc.
Now produce HTML:
About Valar Atomics
...
The Team
...
The Role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Qualifications
...
Preferred Skills
...
Benefits
...
Pay
Salary: $196,000 USD - $240,000 USD
Make
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for responsibilities list, we need to break into bullet points. The responsibilities are long paragraphs with multiple items; we can split into bullet points each starting with a bold? But we just need to wrap each duty in
- . We'll parse the responsibilities section: "Team Leadership and Organization Building" etc. We'll create bullet points for each major responsibility.
Similarly for qualifications: list of basic qualifications each as bullet.
Preferred skills: bullet list.
Benefits: bullet list.
Pay: we have salary range; we can put in
maybe under Pay heading. We must not include boilerplate like EEO statement, application instructions, etc. Remove those. We must preserve all substantive information; we need to include company description, team description, role description, responsibilities, qualifications, preferred skills, benefits, pay. We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the specifics. We'll produce HTML fragment with
headings and appropriate
or
- .
Let's extract content:
About Valar Atomics paragraph: "At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level."
The Team paragraph: "You will lead Valar Atomics' Electrical Engineering team within the Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. The team delivers the electrical infrastructure that powers and is powered by Valar's facilities, from utility and grid interconnection through generation, MV distribution, process area LV systems, and emergency power across the reactor program, fuel manufacturing operations, and power generation and distribution scope. You will work alongside I&C, mechanical, process, power conversion, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where power system integrity directly supports production reliability and nuclear safety, with some of the most technically interesting generation and distribution challenges in the advanced nuclear sector. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture, and you will set that tone for the engineers you hire."
The Role paragraph: "Valar Atomics is seeking a Lead Electrical Engineer to lead and build our electrical engineering team, and to own electrical engineering delivery across the full plant scope, Reactor, Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing, Power Generation, and Power Distribution. This is a player-coach role: you will be both the team's leader, hiring, developing, directing, and growing electrical engineers across our career ladder, and its most senior technical voice while that team is built, with design responsibility spanning LV, MV, and HV systems from utility interconnection and the generation switchyard through medium voltage distribution to process and facility low voltage systems. You will own the electrical architecture of a first-of-a-kind nuclear power plant, including its power generation electrical scope: generator integration, excitation and protection, step-up transformation, and grid interconnection. This role builds the organization it will lead."
Key Responsibilities: we have a big block with headings: Team Leadership and Organization Building, Technical Leadership and Delivery, Program Coordination. We'll break each bullet.
Let's extract bullet points:
Team Leadership and Organization Building:
- Build the electrical engineering team: define roles and requisitions across the Engineer / Senior / Staff / Principal ladder with the Director, recruit and interview candidates, own hiring recommendations, and onboard and integrate new engineers.
- Lead the team day to day: assign and prioritize work across the four plant areas, direct and review technical output, manage performance, and develop each engineer's technical depth and progression along the ladder.
- Own engineering resourcing strategy: workload forecasting across Reactor, Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing, Power Generation, and Power Distribution scopes; internal versus contractor engineering allocation; and technical direction and oversight of engineering subcontractors and consultants.
- Establish the discipline's ways of working — checking practice, calculation and study bases, design standards, and documentation discipline — and evolve their ownership to Staff and Principal engineers as the team grows.
Technical Leadership and Delivery:
- Own electrical engineering delivery across all four plant areas: the scope, quality, and schedule of power system studies, designs, specifications, and construction and commissioning support produced by the team.
- Own the plant electrical architecture end-to-end across voltage classes: HV utility interconnection and switchyard, generator and generator step-up (GSU) transformer integration, MV distribution, LV process and facility systems, emergency and standby power, and DC/UPS systems.
- Own the power generation electrical scope: generator specification and integration with the power conversion system, excitation and voltage regulation, generator and interconnection protection, synchronization, auxiliary power, and grid code and interconnection technical requirements.
- Serve as the discipline's senior technical authority: approve power system studies (load flow, short circuit, arc flash, protection coordination, grounding), one-line development, protection philosophy and relay settings, and major equipment specifications, delegating approval authority to Staff and Principal engineers as they are hired.
- Own the utility and AHJ technical relationships: interconnection studies and agreements, protection interface requirements, code interpretation and compliance strategy, and inspection support.
- Lead the electrical discipline in interdisciplinary design reviews, HAZOP studies, and licensing-support activities; represent the discipline's position at program level and own resolution of cross-discipline conflicts.
- Lead vendor engagement for major electrical packages: pre-qualification, technical bid evaluation, award recommendation, factory acceptance activities, and escalation of systemic vendor issues.
Program Coordination:
- Coordinate electrical scope and interfaces across the reactor, fuel manufacturing, power conversion, and site infrastructure programs, including load growth, sequencing of energisation, and shared distribution infrastructure decisions.
- Advise IC&E leadership on electrical technical risk, resourcing, and sequencing; provide independent technical judgment where schedule and cost pressure intersect engineering integrity.
- Maintain disciplined engineering records consistent with nuclear quality requirements, ensuring traceability of design decisions, analyses, and test results, and setting the example for the team's documentation culture.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience across power generation, utility, process, or industrial projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading an electrical engineering team: assigning and directing work, reviewing and approving other engineers' output, and developing engineers — not solely project or matrix leadership.
- Experience building an engineering team through direct hiring: defining roles, recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding engineers you then led.
- Substantial power generation electrical experience, including generator integration, excitation, generator and interconnection protection, GSU transformers, switchyard or substation scope, and grid interconnection requirements. Experience from cogeneration / combined heat and power (CHP) facilities fully satisfies this requirement.
- Demonstrated design proficiency across LV, MV, and HV systems — from utility/transmission-level interconnection and switchyards through MV distribution to LV process and facility systems, including the studies, protection, and equipment specification appropriate to each voltage class.
- Expert-level proficiency in power system analysis (SKM Power Tools, ETAP, PSS/E, or equivalent), including ownership or approval of load flow, short circuit, arc flash, and protection coordination studies.
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of electrical scope on at least one major capital project, from front-end design through energisation and commissioning.
- Strong working knowledge of applicable codes and standards (NEC/NFPA 70, IEEE including the C37 protection series, NEMA, ANSI, IEC), sufficient to set and defend discipline standards.
- Experience representing an electrical discipline to external parties — utilities, AHJs, regulators, or major vendors.
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Professional Engineer (P.E. / P.Eng.) registration or equivalent.
- Experience leading utility interconnection from application through energisation, including interconnection agreements and PPA technical interfaces.
- Nuclear facility electrical experience, including nuclear classification and separation requirements (IEEE 384, Class 1E concepts) or work under NQA-1 / 10 CFR 50 Appendix B quality programs.
- Generator protection expertise (IEEE C37.102) and experience with synchronization, black start, or islanded operation schemes.
- Experience with IEC 61850 substation automation and protection communication.
- Experience with emergency and standby power system design, DC systems, and battery sizing (IEEE 485/1115).
- Experience on first-of-a-kind, prototype, or early-stage plant programs where the electrical organization and its standards had to be built rather than inherited.
What We Offer:
- Competitive base salary
- Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
- Generous PPE stipend
- High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
- Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
- Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
- The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up
Pay: Salary: $196,000 USD - $240,000 USD
We should not include EEO statement, etc.
Now produce HTML:
- ... ...
About Valar Atomics
...
The Team
...
The Role
...
Responsibilities
Qualifications
- ...
Preferred Skills
- ...
Benefits
- ...
Pay
Salary: $196,000 USD - $240,000 USD
Make