Valar Atomics
Lead Electrical Engineer
$196K–$240K
Torrance, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; cogeneration / combined heat and power (CHP) facilities fully satisfy the stated power-generation experience requirement.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- 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 job
Leads and builds the electrical engineering team and owns electrical design delivery across Valar Atomics’ reactor, fuel manufacturing, power generation, and distribution programs.
What you'll do
- Hire, develop, direct, and review the electrical engineering team; establish discipline practices and resourcing.
- Own plant electrical architecture and delivery across HV, MV, and LV systems, including generation, grid interconnection, protection, studies, and commissioning support.
- Coordinate electrical work across programs and with utilities, regulators, vendors, and other engineering disciplines.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience across power generation, utility, process, or industrial projects.
- Direct experience leading and hiring an electrical engineering team, including reviewing engineers’ work and developing them.
- Substantial power-generation experience and demonstrated LV/MV/HV design proficiency, including power-system analysis and end-to-end ownership of electrical scope on at least one major capital project.
Nice to have
- Professional Engineer (P.E. / P.Eng.) registration or equivalent.
- Nuclear facility electrical experience, including nuclear classification and separation requirements or work under NQA-1 / 10 CFR 50 Appendix B quality programs.
Pay
$196,000 — $240,000 USD base salary
Tools
SKM Power Tools, ETAP, PSS/E, NEC/NFPA 70, IEEE, NEMA, ANSI, IEC
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