Senior OT Engineer

The role

The Senior OT Engineer delivers power and rack infrastructure, compute, networks, identity, security, operational data, and industrial software platforms. This person will take implementation or testing objectives through planning, execution, troubleshooting, and verified delivery.

What you will do

• Turn defined objectives into practical implementation or test plans.
• Independently implement and operate systems or execute system tests.
• Diagnose difficult faults using measurements, logs, and test results.
• Plan and execute commissioning, failure, and recovery tests.
• Resolve integration issues with other engineers.
• Complete delivery with accurate configurations, procedures, and test evidence.

Required qualifications

• Independently deliver an implementation or rigorous hands-on test work package.
• Plan methods, interfaces, dependencies, resources, testing, and turnover.
• Diagnose causes using measurements or recorded evidence.
• Maintain controlled configurations and usable records.
• Demonstrate at least one specialty: Power distribution and backup, Racks and cabling, Compute, storage, and virtualization, Industrial software backends, Networking, Technical documentation, Windows d

Nice to have

• Experience with operator-facing HMI, alarm, tag, graphics, licensing, configuration/change control, and recovery testing in distributed or redundant SCADA environments.
• Deep Layer 1-7 networking knowledge and hands-on experience with Arista/Palo Alto or equivalent.
• Strong experience with time-series and relational data platforms, OPC UA/MQTT/API/ETL pipelines, semantic models, data quality/lineage, and Grafana or equivalent.
• Experience performing authorized network, SCADA, Windows/Linux, identity, and data-system cybersecurity testing.
• Experience in nuclear energy, power generation, oil and gas, chemical processing, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, or another regulated or safety-conscious industry.
• Experience with high-rate operational data, historian collectives, high-availability or remote-site networks, precision timing, centralized monitoring, buffering/replay, and data-diode or unidirection
• Experience with MES/LIMS/QMS integration, incident response or forensics in isolated environments, or scalable OT standards, templates, runbooks, automated diagnostics, or test harnesses.

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
• The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up

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. They are a team of builders, engineers, and operators focused on deploying factory-made nuclear energy.