Principal Instrumentation & Controls Engineer – Hardware
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should map sections accordingly.
We need to not repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Principal Instrumentation & Controls Hardware Engineers". Not needed.
We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we can have sections: About the role (maybe combine "About Valar Atomics" and "The Team" and "The Role"? But "About the role" is a heading we can use for description of role. Could combine "The Role" description. Also "Responsibilities" for Key Responsibilities. "Requirements" maybe for Basic Qualifications. "Qualifications" maybe for Preferred Skills and Experience? Actually they said "Qualifications" and "Skills" as possible headings. We could have "Qualifications" for Basic Qualifications, and "Skills" for Preferred Skills and Experience. "Benefits" for What We Offer. No Pay or Schedule specifics, so omit those sections.
We must not include boilerplate like EEO, etc. Remove Equal Employment Opportunity Statement.
We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include content from About Valar Atomics, The Team, The Role, Key Responsibilities, Basic Qualifications, Preferred Skills and Experience, What We Offer.
We need to format using headings, - for lists,
for prose.
We need to decide how to structure content: maybe each heading with paragraphs and lists.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all specifics.
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:
"The Team You will be joining Valar Atomics' Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. I&C Hardware Engineers own the physical measurement and control layer field instrumentation and final elements, control panels and I/O architecture, field wiring and network infrastructure, and safety instrumented system hardware, along with the calibration and commissioning practices that keep those systems trustworthy. You will work alongside I&C software, process, electrical, mechanical, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where measurement quality and installation integrity directly support production reliability and nuclear safety. As the principal engineer, you will be the discipline's most senior technical voice: the architect of its systems, the final checker of its highest-consequence work, and a standard-setter for the engineers who will build their careers here. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture."
The Role paragraph:
"Valar Atomics is seeking Principal Instrumentation & Controls Hardware Engineers to own the technical direction of the instrumentation and control hardware discipline across our reactor and nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. The role spans the full instrumentation hardware domain: field instruments and final elements, control panel and I/O architecture, hazardous area design, safety instrumented system hardware, field wiring and OT network infrastructure, and calibration and commissioning practice, but at the level of architecture, strategy, and design authority rather than routine execution. This is a principal position: you will define the measurement and control hardware architecture and technology roadmap for a first-of-a-kind nuclear program, hold final technical approval authority within the discipline, direct the resolution of the highest-consequence and most novel engineering problems, represent the discipline to regulators, standards bodies, and strategic vendors, and build the engineering capability of the organization around you. Where a Staff engineer owns the discipline's standards and quality, the Principal engineer owns where the discipline is going."
Key Responsibilities: list of bullet points under headings: Architecture and Technical Strategy, Design Authority and Technical Governance, External Representation and Licensing Support, Organizational Capability. Each has sub-bullets.
We need to preserve all details. So we can create a
with - items each containing the heading bold? But we cannot add extra formatting beyond HTML; we can include inside li if needed but not required. The instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make each responsibility as a
- . Within each li we can include the subheading as plain text.
We need to keep the sub-bullets as part of the li text; we could also nest ul inside li for subpoints. That is allowed:
- can contain
. We'll do that to preserve structure.
Similarly for Basic Qualifications: list of items.
Preferred Skills and Experience: list.
What We Offer: list.
We must not include Pay or Schedule sections.
Now produce HTML.
We'll start with About the role
maybe combine About Valar Atomics, The Team, The Role into a single section? But the instruction says "About the role" as an example heading. We could have separate sections: About Valar Atomics, The Team, The Role. However they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine into one "About the role" covering all descriptive paragraphs. That might be okay.
But we need to preserve all substantive information; combining is fine as long as we don't lose detail.
Thus:
About the role
... (combined paragraphs)
Then Responsibilities
with ul.
Then Requirements
for Basic Qualifications.
Then Skills
for Preferred Skills and Experience.
Then Benefits
for What We Offer.
We must not include headings with empty content.
Now craft the combined About the role paragraph: need to include all three paragraphs exactly.
Let's combine:
"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 You will be joining Valar Atomics' Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. I&C Hardware Engineers own the physical measurement and control layer field instrumentation and final elements, control panels and I/O architecture, field wiring and network infrastructure, and safety instrumented system hardware, along with the calibration and commissioning practices that keep those systems trustworthy. You will work alongside I&C software, process, electrical, mechanical, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where measurement quality and installation integrity directly support production reliability and nuclear safety. As the principal engineer, you will be the discipline's most senior technical voice: the architect of its systems, the final checker of its highest-consequence work, and a standard-setter for the engineers who will build their careers here. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture.
Valar Atomics is seeking Principal Instrumentation & Controls Hardware Engineers to own the technical direction of the instrumentation and control hardware discipline across our reactor and nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. The role spans the full instrumentation hardware domain: field instruments and final elements, control panel and I/O architecture, hazardous area design, safety instrumented system hardware, field wiring and OT network infrastructure, and calibration and commissioning practice, but at the level of architecture, strategy, and design authority rather than routine execution. This is a principal position: you will define the measurement and control hardware architecture and technology roadmap for a first-of-a-kind nuclear program, hold final technical approval authority within the discipline, direct the resolution of the highest-consequence and most novel engineering problems, represent the discipline to regulators, standards bodies, and strategic vendors, and build the engineering capability of the organization around you. Where a Staff engineer owns the discipline's standards and quality, the Principal engineer owns where the discipline is going."
Make sure to keep line breaks? Not needed.
Now Responsibilities: we need to list each main bullet with subbullets.
Let's extract:
Architecture and Technical Strategy
- Define and own the I&C hardware architecture and technology roadmap across the reactor program and fuel manufacturing facilities, including instrument platform and protocol strategy, panel and I/O architecture philosophy, safety instrumented system architecture philosophy, and OT network physical infrastructure strategy.
- Author and own the discipline's design philosophy and basis documents, measurement strategy, redundancy and segregation philosophy, hazardous area design approach, grounding and shielding philosophy, and calibration and maintenance philosophy that constrain and guide all downstream project engineering.
- Direct measurement technology strategy for first-of-a-kind and severe-service conditions where no proven commercial solution exists, including sponsoring technology trade studies, vendor development programs, prototype and qualification campaigns, and make-or-buy decisions with long-term consequences.
- Own the discipline's standards program: set the framework and priorities for engineering standards, delegate authorship to staff and senior engineers, and approve standards for release; drive convergence and standardization across projects and sites.
- Evaluate emerging instrumentation, diagnostics, and OT infrastructure technology; decide what enters the toolkit, what is piloted, and what is excluded, balancing innovation against nuclear quality and long-term supportability.
Design Authority and Technical Governance
- Serve as the discipline design authority: hold final technical approval within I&C hardware for architecture decisions, safety-significant designs, deviations from standards, and concessions; adjudicate technical disputes within the discipline and represent its position in cross-discipline conflicts at program level.
- Own the technical integrity of safety instrumented system hardware across the fleet, including SIS architecture selection, redundancy and voting philosophy, SIL verification methodology, and approval of safety-significant SIS design changes in accordance with IEC 61511 and IEC 61508.
- Lead the discipline's engagement in the highest-consequence program reviews: preliminary and critical design reviews, safety case and licensing reviews, HAZOP/LOPA at program level, and readiness reviews for major commissioning and startup milestones.
- Direct root cause investigations for the most significant failures and events touching instrumentation hardware; approve corrective action strategy and ensure findings are institutionalized in architecture, standards, and training.
- Personally execute or lead engineering on the small set of problems where the consequence of error or the degree of novelty warrants the discipline's most senior engineer and know which problems those are.
External Representation and Licensing Support
- Support the nuclear licensing effort as the senior instrumentation hardware voice: contribute to and defend the instrumentation and SIS content of the safety case, support regulatory interactions and audits, and shape the licensing basis so it remains buildable and operable.
- Represent Valar Atomics to strategic instrumentation vendors and technology partners at a senior technical level; own long-term vendor technical relationships, qualification expectations, and escalation of systemic vendor quality issues.
- Represent the company in industry and standards forums as appropriate (ISA, IEEE, IEC, advanced reactor industry groups); bring emerging regulatory and standards developments back into company strategy before they become constraints.
Organizational Capability
- Build the discipline's engineering capability: define the technical competencies the organization needs, shape role definitions and the technical career ladder with the Director, set the hiring bar, and lead technical interviews for senior positions.
- Mentor staff and senior engineers toward independent technical authority; sponsor their development through delegation of ownership with oversight rather than retention of scope.
- Advise IC
- for lists,
for prose. We need to decide how to structure content: maybe each heading with paragraphs and lists. We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all specifics. 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: "The Team You will be joining Valar Atomics' Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. I&C Hardware Engineers own the physical measurement and control layer field instrumentation and final elements, control panels and I/O architecture, field wiring and network infrastructure, and safety instrumented system hardware, along with the calibration and commissioning practices that keep those systems trustworthy. You will work alongside I&C software, process, electrical, mechanical, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where measurement quality and installation integrity directly support production reliability and nuclear safety. As the principal engineer, you will be the discipline's most senior technical voice: the architect of its systems, the final checker of its highest-consequence work, and a standard-setter for the engineers who will build their careers here. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture." The Role paragraph: "Valar Atomics is seeking Principal Instrumentation & Controls Hardware Engineers to own the technical direction of the instrumentation and control hardware discipline across our reactor and nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. The role spans the full instrumentation hardware domain: field instruments and final elements, control panel and I/O architecture, hazardous area design, safety instrumented system hardware, field wiring and OT network infrastructure, and calibration and commissioning practice, but at the level of architecture, strategy, and design authority rather than routine execution. This is a principal position: you will define the measurement and control hardware architecture and technology roadmap for a first-of-a-kind nuclear program, hold final technical approval authority within the discipline, direct the resolution of the highest-consequence and most novel engineering problems, represent the discipline to regulators, standards bodies, and strategic vendors, and build the engineering capability of the organization around you. Where a Staff engineer owns the discipline's standards and quality, the Principal engineer owns where the discipline is going." Key Responsibilities: list of bullet points under headings: Architecture and Technical Strategy, Design Authority and Technical Governance, External Representation and Licensing Support, Organizational Capability. Each has sub-bullets. We need to preserve all details. So we can create a
- with
- items each containing the heading bold? But we cannot add extra formatting beyond HTML; we can include inside li if needed but not required. The instruction: use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make each responsibility as a
- . Within each li we can include the subheading as plain text. We need to keep the sub-bullets as part of the li text; we could also nest ul inside li for subpoints. That is allowed:
- can contain
- . We'll do that to preserve structure.
Similarly for Basic Qualifications: list of items.
Preferred Skills and Experience: list.
What We Offer: list.
We must not include Pay or Schedule sections.
Now produce HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
maybe combine About Valar Atomics, The Team, The Role into a single section? But the instruction says "About the role" as an example heading. We could have separate sections: About Valar Atomics, The Team, The Role. However they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. Could combine into one "About the role" covering all descriptive paragraphs. That might be okay. But we need to preserve all substantive information; combining is fine as long as we don't lose detail. Thus:About the role
... (combined paragraphs)
ThenResponsibilities
with ul. ThenRequirements
for Basic Qualifications. ThenSkills
for Preferred Skills and Experience. ThenBenefits
for What We Offer. We must not include headings with empty content. Now craft the combined About the role paragraph: need to include all three paragraphs exactly. Let's combine: "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 You will be joining Valar Atomics' Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. I&C Hardware Engineers own the physical measurement and control layer field instrumentation and final elements, control panels and I/O architecture, field wiring and network infrastructure, and safety instrumented system hardware, along with the calibration and commissioning practices that keep those systems trustworthy. You will work alongside I&C software, process, electrical, mechanical, and nuclear safety engineers in a hands-on environment where measurement quality and installation integrity directly support production reliability and nuclear safety. As the principal engineer, you will be the discipline's most senior technical voice: the architect of its systems, the final checker of its highest-consequence work, and a standard-setter for the engineers who will build their careers here. The team values technical depth, disciplined documentation, and a safety-first culture. Valar Atomics is seeking Principal Instrumentation & Controls Hardware Engineers to own the technical direction of the instrumentation and control hardware discipline across our reactor and nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. The role spans the full instrumentation hardware domain: field instruments and final elements, control panel and I/O architecture, hazardous area design, safety instrumented system hardware, field wiring and OT network infrastructure, and calibration and commissioning practice, but at the level of architecture, strategy, and design authority rather than routine execution. This is a principal position: you will define the measurement and control hardware architecture and technology roadmap for a first-of-a-kind nuclear program, hold final technical approval authority within the discipline, direct the resolution of the highest-consequence and most novel engineering problems, represent the discipline to regulators, standards bodies, and strategic vendors, and build the engineering capability of the organization around you. Where a Staff engineer owns the discipline's standards and quality, the Principal engineer owns where the discipline is going." Make sure to keep line breaks? Not needed. Now Responsibilities: we need to list each main bullet with subbullets. Let's extract: Architecture and Technical Strategy - Define and own the I&C hardware architecture and technology roadmap across the reactor program and fuel manufacturing facilities, including instrument platform and protocol strategy, panel and I/O architecture philosophy, safety instrumented system architecture philosophy, and OT network physical infrastructure strategy. - Author and own the discipline's design philosophy and basis documents, measurement strategy, redundancy and segregation philosophy, hazardous area design approach, grounding and shielding philosophy, and calibration and maintenance philosophy that constrain and guide all downstream project engineering. - Direct measurement technology strategy for first-of-a-kind and severe-service conditions where no proven commercial solution exists, including sponsoring technology trade studies, vendor development programs, prototype and qualification campaigns, and make-or-buy decisions with long-term consequences. - Own the discipline's standards program: set the framework and priorities for engineering standards, delegate authorship to staff and senior engineers, and approve standards for release; drive convergence and standardization across projects and sites. - Evaluate emerging instrumentation, diagnostics, and OT infrastructure technology; decide what enters the toolkit, what is piloted, and what is excluded, balancing innovation against nuclear quality and long-term supportability. Design Authority and Technical Governance - Serve as the discipline design authority: hold final technical approval within I&C hardware for architecture decisions, safety-significant designs, deviations from standards, and concessions; adjudicate technical disputes within the discipline and represent its position in cross-discipline conflicts at program level. - Own the technical integrity of safety instrumented system hardware across the fleet, including SIS architecture selection, redundancy and voting philosophy, SIL verification methodology, and approval of safety-significant SIS design changes in accordance with IEC 61511 and IEC 61508. - Lead the discipline's engagement in the highest-consequence program reviews: preliminary and critical design reviews, safety case and licensing reviews, HAZOP/LOPA at program level, and readiness reviews for major commissioning and startup milestones. - Direct root cause investigations for the most significant failures and events touching instrumentation hardware; approve corrective action strategy and ensure findings are institutionalized in architecture, standards, and training. - Personally execute or lead engineering on the small set of problems where the consequence of error or the degree of novelty warrants the discipline's most senior engineer and know which problems those are. External Representation and Licensing Support - Support the nuclear licensing effort as the senior instrumentation hardware voice: contribute to and defend the instrumentation and SIS content of the safety case, support regulatory interactions and audits, and shape the licensing basis so it remains buildable and operable. - Represent Valar Atomics to strategic instrumentation vendors and technology partners at a senior technical level; own long-term vendor technical relationships, qualification expectations, and escalation of systemic vendor quality issues. - Represent the company in industry and standards forums as appropriate (ISA, IEEE, IEC, advanced reactor industry groups); bring emerging regulatory and standards developments back into company strategy before they become constraints. Organizational Capability - Build the discipline's engineering capability: define the technical competencies the organization needs, shape role definitions and the technical career ladder with the Director, set the hiring bar, and lead technical interviews for senior positions. - Mentor staff and senior engineers toward independent technical authority; sponsor their development through delegation of ownership with oversight rather than retention of scope. - Advise IC
- items each containing the heading bold? But we cannot add extra formatting beyond HTML; we can include inside li if needed but not required. The instruction: use