Principal OT Engineer

The role

The Principal OT Engineer will lead technical investigations of complex failures and develop designs, standards, and verification procedures. This role delivers power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security, operational data, and industrial software platforms.

What you will do

• Lead technical investigations of consequential failures and complex integration problems
• Step into implementation, commissioning, troubleshooting, or recovery work
• Test explanations against incomplete or conflicting evidence and verify recovery
• Develop and review architectures, detailed designs, standards, and acceptance methods
• Resolve technical gaps between disciplines
• Turn failures and field lessons into improved designs and usable procedures

Required qualifications

• Broad practical capability across power and rack infrastructure; compute, storage, and virtualization; networking; industrial backends and data; Windows domains and access control; centralized service
• Deep hands-on expertise in several disciplines, demonstrated by resolving difficult failures across systems, evaluating incomplete evidence, and verifying recovery when established procedures are insu
• Authorship and validation of designs, standards, requirements, procedures, and acceptance criteria
• Technical leadership of complex integration, commissioning, or recovery work, and usable technical records

Nice to have

• Broad departmental coverage is preferred over deep specialists
• Experience developing reusable architectures or technical standards across multiple facilities or programs
• Experience turning lessons from major incidents into tested recovery practices adopted by multiple teams
• Deep expertise in additional disciplines or product families beyond the required breadth

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
• Generous PPE stipend
• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
• Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders

Before you apply

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)

About the company

Valar Atomics is a company working to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable. Their first pilot plant will be in Orangeville, Utah.