Valar Atomics
Principal Instrumentation & Controls Engineer – Hardware
Orangeville, Utah, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of instrumentation or I&C engineering experience in process industries.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Chemical, or Systems Engineering, or a 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
Owns the technical direction, architecture, and design authority for instrumentation and controls hardware across nuclear reactor and fuel manufacturing facilities.
What you'll do
- Define I&C hardware architecture, technology roadmaps, design philosophies, and engineering standards.
- Approve safety-significant designs, lead high-consequence reviews and investigations, and support licensing and regulatory engagement.
- Build the discipline’s technical capability through hiring, mentoring, and engineering governance.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Chemical, or Systems Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of instrumentation or I&C engineering experience in process industries.
- End-to-end ownership of instrumentation hardware across multiple major capital projects, including at least one through commissioning, startup, and initial operations.
- Deep instrumentation hardware and safety instrumented system expertise, including IEC 61511 lifecycle experience and formal technical leadership or design authority.
Nice to have
- Professional Engineer (PE) license; ISA CAP or ISA84 credential, or equivalent.
- Nuclear industry experience, novel or severe-service instrumentation qualification, first-of-a-kind plants, standards participation, or OT cybersecurity architecture experience.
Tools
IEC 61511, IEC 61508, NEC 500/505, IEC 60079, ISA, IEEE, IEC, IEC 62443
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