Risk & Compliance Lead

About Radiant

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. Portable nuclear power with rapid-deploy capability can replace similar-sized diesel generators and provide critical asset support for hospitals, data centers, remote sites, and military bases. 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.

About The Role

Radiant is scaling fast - expanding factory operations, standing up multi-entity structures, and taking on both government and commercial deployments. This role will manage our liability exposure in a centralized manner - owning programs across all teams and building out our risk infrastructure. As Risk & Compliance Lead, you will build and own Radiant's risk management function from the ground up - mapping exposure across the entire business, optimizing our insurance and other risk-coverage programs (including layered nuclear-related coverage requirements), and identifying / prioritizing / closing gaps before they become findings. You will mature our programs into a proactive, structured risk governance, and you'll be the connective tissue between insurance brokers, legal, operations, IT, security, finance, and regulatory teams.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 8+ years of experience in risk management, insurance brokerage, underwriting, or a related compliance discipline; experience in regulated, multi-entity, or government-contracting environments strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in risk management, finance, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience designing and procuring insurance programs across multiple lines of coverage.
• Experience with regulatory compliance frameworks; familiarity with NRC requirements or other highly regulated licensing environments is a strong plus.
• Experience structuring liability and risk isolation strategies across multiple legal entities (e.g., GOCO/COCO structures).
• Experience quantifying risk exposure and developing contingency reserve recommendations, with working knowledge of relevant accounting principles (GAAP/statutory) as they apply to risk and insurance.

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.
• Daily catered lunch.
• Free snacks and drinks.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Remote workday allocation.
• Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.
• A 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.