Valar Atomics

Valar Atomics

Senior Software Engineer

Torrance, CAPosted 1 day ago$144,000 – $195,000
Full TimeSeniorUS

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Job Description

About Valar Atomics At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. The Team As part of the Engineering organization, Software Engineering builds the internal platforms and tools that power reactor design, fuel manufacturing, licensing, and plant operations. The team partners directly with engineering, manufacturing, and operations to deliver full-stack software, integrate enterprise systems, and preserve traceability from requirement to as-built. The Role The Senior Software Engineer will build the operating system for Valar. You will work directly with reactor and fuel engineers, systems engineering, licensing, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations to understand how they actually work and then build the tooling that makes them faster. This position will be located in Torrance, California, with regular travel to our Orangeville, Utah pilot plant.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of relevant experience writing software and deploying it to a production environment.
  • Demonstrated skill in both typed (like Java, C#, Go, or C++) and untyped (like Python or JavaScript) languages.
  • Proven experience designing and architecting scalable systems and driving technical decisions across teams.
  • Experience building and shipping web applications end to end, including the user interface.
  • Working experience with cloud and containerized deployment, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, and data modeling.
  • Hands-on experience shipping production work with AI coding agents and assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar), and the judgment to verify what they produce before it lands.
  • Strong communication skills: open to the opinions of others, willing to bring your own creative ideas for solutions, and ready to own and rectify mistakes.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a scientific discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building internal platforms or engineering tooling at a hardware, manufacturing, aerospace, energy, or heavy-industrial company.
  • Experience integrating PLM, ERP, MES, LIMS, or document control systems, and a healthy skepticism about vendor claims.
  • Familiarity with regulated or quality-controlled environments and the software implications of NQA-1, GAMP 5, or 21 CFR Part 11.
  • Adjacency to industrial and operational data—historians, time-series stores, OPC UA or MQTT interfaces—and an understanding of why source timestamps and data quality matter.
  • Experience with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and deployment to both cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
  • Experience mentoring software engineers in a team setting, including design and code review.
  • Experience building with LLMs and agents rather than just coding with them—retrieval over technical documents, agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, or tool integrations.
  • A point of view on where AI-assisted development helps, where it doesn't, and how to verify agent output in an environment where records end up in front of regulators. Tell us about it.

Skills & Technologies

GraphQLCI/CDJavaGoPythonJavaScriptGitDockerKubernetes

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Job Details

Employment Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Senior

Salary Range

$144,000 – $195,000

Location

Torrance, CA

Posted

1 day ago

Country

US