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Salary: USD 85,000 - 180,000 / annual
General Matter is a venture-backed nuclear fuel enrichment company incubated within Founders Fund, backed by over a dozen top-tier VC firms. The company is building the world's lowest-cost uranium enrichment services in the US to power advanced reactors, AI, and critical manufacturing. The mission is to make nuclear energy the cleanest, safest, and most affordable source of baseload power.
The Design Reliability Engineer role sits at the center of the engineering organization, ensuring that designs are executed as intended and meet both internal criteria and external requirements. This is a cross-disciplinary connective role that facilitates problem-solving across all engineering teams and programs.
Key responsibilities include:
- Running design reviews and making pass/fail decisions on design readiness for advancement
- Facilitating cross-disciplinary discussions, capturing decisions, and driving actions to closure with clear owners and deadlines
- Driving design improvements through close integration with hardware and engineering teams
- Managing configuration integrity by running change reviews and ensuring all changes are evaluated, approved, and reflected across affected documents and teams
- Maintaining official design documents, drawings, and P&IDs in controlled systems
- Managing design criteria and connections in Stillsuit to ensure consistency between design, documentation, and build
- Identifying, tracking, and retiring engineering risks with clear ownership and mitigation plans
- Escalating stalled risks or actions quickly
- Building working knowledge of how every subsystem and team interconnects
- Spotting missing interfaces between teams and driving necessary coordination
- Automating review, document control, and risk workflows using AI tools to enable scaling
This is a fast-paced, intense, Skunkworks-style environment requiring high impact and accountability.
REQUIREMENTS:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in any STEM discipline
- Evidence of exceptional ability (prior projects, leadership of technical teams, completed hardware, portfolio of work, etc.)
- Exceptional attention to detail and high bar for accuracy in technical documentation
- Demonstrated ability to run meetings, drive decisions, and hold people (including peers and senior engineers) accountable to commitments
- Ability to obtain and maintain required security clearance and access authorization
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Experience in design reliability, design assurance, configuration management, or systems engineering
- Systems engineering experience in aerospace or defense, or process engineering experience in chemical, energy, or semiconductor environments
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and P&IDs
- Experience automating engineering workflows, including use of AI tools
- Familiarity with change control, document control, or risk management processes (e.g., CCB, MOC, FMEA, risk registers)
- Experience in fast-paced, resource-constrained startup environments
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary
