Aalo Atomics
Safeguards and Security Lead
Idaho Falls, ID · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 26, 2026
- Experience
- Six or more years of relevant progressively responsible experience; two or more years in a leading security or safeguards role at a qualifying high-security operation.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred; substantial directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Persons in compliance with 10 CFR Part 810 and may not hold non-compliant foreign citizenships.
About the job
Leads safeguards, physical security, access control, and nuclear material security programs for Aalo Atomics’ Idaho Falls activities and Austin facilities.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain security programs, plans, procedures, assessments, and corrective actions across Idaho Falls and Austin facilities.
- Establish physical-protection, access-authorization, and nuclear material security controls; coordinate response to security incidents and material anomalies.
- Coordinate with DOE, laboratories, law enforcement, emergency responders, transportation organizations, and regulators; conduct drills, tests, assessments, and investigations.
What they ask for
- Six or more years of progressively responsible experience in nuclear safeguards, physical security, nuclear material control and accountability, law enforcement, military security, or high-consequence infrastructure protection.
- Two or more years in a leading security or safeguards role at a commercial nuclear power plant, DOE nuclear facility, national laboratory, nuclear-fuel-cycle facility, or comparable high-security operation.
- Demonstrated knowledge of physical protection, access authorization, insider-threat mitigation, contingency planning, security systems, vulnerability assessment, incident response, investigations, and performance testing.
- U.S. citizenship; able to obtain and maintain required security clearance, access authorization, and fitness-for-duty status.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in security management, criminal justice, nuclear technology, engineering, physical science, or a related field; substantial directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
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