Reactor Operations Engineer

Responsibilities

• Qualify as an operator to gain firsthand experience, ensuring procedures align with real-world execution.
• Collaborate closely with engineers to improve operator interfaces, procedural workflows, and software tools.
• Support testing and iterative improvements of digital twin scenarios, operator systems, and human-machine interfaces.
• Ensure compliance with DOE and NRC standards, maintaining strict formatting, clarity, and usability in procedural documentation.
• Develop and refine operational procedures that integrate both software and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Requirements

• 4+ years of full-time professional experience in engineering problem-solving, including system design, analysis, or testing.
• Proficiency in managing or optimizing complex hardware and software processes for testing and operations.
• Ability to apply first principles thinking to solve problems and make decisions in uncertain or ambiguous situations.
• Background in highly regulated industries (e.g., nuclear, aerospace, aviation, maritime).

Skills

• 4+ years of full-time professional experience in engineering problem-solving, including system design, analysis, or testing.
• Proficiency in managing or optimizing complex hardware and software processes for testing and operations.
• Ability to apply first principles thinking to solve problems and make decisions in uncertain or ambiguous situations.
• Background in highly regulated industries (e.g., nuclear, aerospace, aviation, maritime).

Benefits and Perks

• 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.
• 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.

Total Compensation and Benefits

• Radiant compensates people for impact and invests in those who continue to raise the bar. Radiant’s new hire compensation package includes base salary, substantial equity grants, and comprehensive health benefits.
• Total compensation and level are determined through a rigorous evaluation of interview performance, experience, education, and qualifications, and are designed to support continued growth as scope, responsibility, and impact expand at Radiant.