Project Developer

About the role

Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based startup building the world’s first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. The company's first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1-megawatt, fail-safe microreactor that can be transported anywhere power is needed and run for up to 5 years without refueling. Radiant’s unique, practical approach to nuclear development leverages modern software engineering to rapidly deliver safe, factory-built microreactors that use existing, well-qualified materials.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the successful delivery of projects under contract for deployment at government and commercial customer sites.
• Manage the timely execution of regulatory, engineering, and siting deliverables.
• Drive contract milestones to completion.
• Own deliverable creation and partner across the team where support is necessary.
• When working with our government customers, act as the primary interface with contracting officers, program offices, installation personnel, and end users.
• When working with our commercial customers, act as the primary interface with project sponsors, site leads, and operations personnel.
• Architect and maintain integrated master schedules and cost baselines, ensuring internal teams and subcontractors are aligned to contract obligations.
• Manage contract compliance including reporting requirements and milestone billing; support negotiation of contract modifications and change orders.
• Independently identify, assess, and drive resolution of programmatic risks and cross-functional dependencies.
• Stand up and refine the project management processes, tools, and reporting cadence needed to provide clear visibility to company leadership and consistent milestone updates to customer partners.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of experience in energy project development, project management, or a related field.
• Experience managing programs requiring the delivery of complex capital equipment or large scale industrial systems.
• Strong command of integrated master scheduling.
• Proven ability to manage programs with significant technical complexity, multiple parallel work streams, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Demonstrated experience managing and reporting project financial performance, budgets, scopes, and schedules.
• U.S. citizenship required (absolutely no exceptions); ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Ability to travel ~10-20%.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with electric power infrastructure projects and knowledge of business issues associated with power delivery services.
• Experience supporting U.S. government contracts.
• Direct working knowledge of FAR/DFARS compliance, government contract types (cost-plus, firm-fixed-price, time and materials), and federal reporting and audit requirements.
• Active DoD security clearance.

Skills

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Project management proficiency.
• Technical expertise in project development and execution.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Benefits

• Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.
• Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.
• One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents.
• Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents.
• Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.
• Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
• 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.
• Daily catered lunch.
• Free snacks and drinks.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Remote workday allocation.
• Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
• Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.

Pay

$115K – $168K Offers Equity

Schedule

Full time, On-site