Senior Regulatory Engineer

The role

You will support the license application approval process with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. You will lead interactions between regulators and the engineering team and own the deliverables for a full license application.

What you will do

• Own end to end licensing execution efforts for application deliverables
• Facilitate partnerships with internal stakeholders and the NRC
• Oversee technical team execution including design reviews and documentation
• Organize technical inputs into data products and reports
• Raise and resolve regulatory concerns
• Review approaches to ensure adherence to licensing paths
• Ensure completeness, timeliness, and quality of regulatory submissions
• Write software scripts to automate data analysis and documentation

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, or similar technical field from an accredited institution
• 5+ years of experience certifying, regulating, qualifying or auditing hardware that was manufactured, deployed, and iteratively improved
• Excellent verbal and written communication and negotiation abilities
• Ability to navigate regulatory conversations effectively and write technical documentation
• Applied understanding of requirement derivation, negotiation and verification or experience with the product design process

Nice to have

• 5+ years of experience working in a manufacturing environment with strict regulatory oversight
• Experience working on a nuclear project with DOE or NRC regulation
• Experience tailoring or implementing NQA-1, ISO9001, AS9100, or other industrial standards
• Experience owning, designing, building, or testing hardware that has seen production
• Ability to apply fundamental engineering principles to regulatory efforts
• Strong ability to lead issues through resolution that may be ambiguous or uncertain in nature
• Excellent project management skills and experience in driving schedules forward

Benefits

• 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 offered as employee contributed benefits
• 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents
• Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees
• Nuclear Engineering Certificate Program: 100% covered educational program with Penn State University for eligible employees
• Daily catered lunch
• Free snacks and drinks
• Flexible PTO policy

Before you apply

• Job offer contingent upon capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls

About the company

Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based company building the world's only mass-produced, transportable nuclear microreactors. Founded in 2020, Radiant is under contract to deliver power to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force.