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Salary: USD 125,000 - 210,000 / annual
Valar Atomics is a Series A advanced nuclear energy company building scalable, factory-made nuclear power systems for industrial applications, hydrogen production, and next-generation manufacturing. The company has already designed, built, commissioned, and operated a DOE-authorized research reactor outside the national laboratory system within its first three years.
The Instrumentations & Controls team within Engineering designs and deploys the monitoring, automation, and protection systems that enable safe and efficient operations of Valar's facilities and reactor technologies.
As a Senior OT Engineer, you will own defined implementation and testing objectives from planning through execution, troubleshooting, and verified delivery. You will take responsibility for assigned systems, make sound decisions within established standards, and resolve interface issues with other engineers. The role welcomes both deep specialists and capable generalists who deliver hands-on results.
OT Engineering scope includes power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security (physical and cyber), operational data, and industrial software platforms (FactoryTalk). Your responsibilities will cover FactoryTalk backend deployment, configuration, integration, and recovery. PLC programming and controls-code development are outside this role's scope.
Key responsibilities include:
- Converting defined objectives into practical implementation or test plans covering prerequisites, equipment, configuration needs, dependencies, tests, and recovery steps
- Independently implementing and operating systems, or preparing, executing, and diagnosing system tests within your assigned scope
- Diagnosing difficult faults using measurements, logs, test results, and system behavior; verifying that corrective actions resolve problems
- Planning and executing commissioning, failure, and recovery tests with clear acceptance criteria
- Resolving integration issues with other engineers and identifying when requirements or designs need revision
- Completing delivery with accurate configurations, executable procedures, test evidence, and usable handoff records
- Traveling to the Orangeville, UT facility approximately 15% of the time
You will be successful if you are highly organized with disciplined task tracking, accurate documentation, clear priorities, and reliable follow-through. You should demonstrate independent progress from a defined objective to a working, verified result, with timely escalation of design or scope decisions. Strong depth in one or more disciplines combined with interface awareness to work effectively with other specialists is essential. Persistent troubleshooting that follows evidence and verifies results is expected.
The company offers competitive base salary, equity ownership, comprehensive medical benefits, unlimited PTO, free daily lunch and dinner onsite, generous PPE stipend, and a high-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy.
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating industrial control systems, SCADA, or operational technology infrastructure
- Proficiency in network configuration, troubleshooting, and security (firewalls, VLANs, access control)
- Experience with FactoryTalk or similar industrial software platforms (deployment, configuration, integration, recovery)
- Log and packet analysis: ability to correlate logs and packets across systems, establish causes, and verify corrective actions
- Operational data systems: experience deploying and operating historians, databases, or interfaces; diagnosing quality failures and verifying retention, buffering, access, and recovery
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
