The posting, in Radiant Industries's own words
archived Nov 14, 2026About Radiant
Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based company building the world's only mass-produced, transportable nuclear microreactors. The U.S. grid is under growing strain, with power demand accelerating, driving higher utility costs, rising carbon emissions, and interconnection backlogs. Radiant has a solution, transportable, on-site power. Our first reactor, Kaleidos, is 1 megawatt: small enough to be factory-built, transported by land, sea, or air, and deployed wherever power is needed. 1 MW can power 1000 homes for five years. Ship it back and we refuel for a 20 year operating life. We made energy a product that can be used for critical infrastructure like military bases, data centers, hospitals, and remote sites, as well as the commercial main street businesses that keep America running. Founded in 2020, Radiant is under contract to deliver power to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force and has signed pre-order agreements with Equinix, with deployments beginning in 2028.
About the Role
We are seeking a Staff Reactor Systems Engineer to own the technical integration of a first-of-a-kind reactor. With no operating predecessor to copy and no mature supply chain, you will be the person who holds the whole machine together, making sure hundreds of design decisions across nuclear physics, thermal-hydraulics, controls, structures, materials, fuel, and licensing add up to a reactor that works safely and is delivered to customers on time. You will be the technical authority for how the pieces of Kaleidos fit together: translating top-level product and safety requirements into subsystem requirements, owning interfaces, and making sure the integrated system performs, is safe, and can be built, tested, and deployed repeatably. As a staff-level engineer, you will work across every engineering discipline, resolve the hardest cross-system tradeoffs, and set the systems engineering practices the team uses as Kaleidos moves from first-of-a-kind builds to scaled production. You will be instrumental in unlocking commercialization of the first mass-produced nuclear reactor. Responsibilities & Duties Own the Kaleidos system architecture and serve as technical authority for integrated system performance, safety, and reliability. Define and manage system budgets (e.g., thermal, mass, power, reactivity, and volume) and allocate margins across subsystems. Own interface definitions and interface control documents between subsystems, including reactor core, primary loop, power conversion loop, shielding, controls, and structures. Maintain the technical baseline (requirements, configuration, change control, risk registers, and documentation) using lightweight processes scaled to a fast-moving startup. Identify cross-cutting risks early and drive them to resolution before they become safety or schedule problems. Define the verification and validation strategy and partner with Test Engineering to turn requirements into test plans, success criteria, and acceptance tests. Correlate analysis and test results against system requirements, and drive resolution of discrepancies. Support safety-basis and licensing or regulatory documentation as needed. Mentor engineers across the organization in systems thinking, requirements quality, and interface discipline. Communicate system status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to engineering and program leadership. Required Qualifications & Skills Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution. 10+ years of professional engineering experience, including meaningful time in systems engineering, integration, testing, engineering operations, or technical leadership on complex hardware. Demonstrated experience owning requirements and interfaces for a complex system from concept through build, test, and operation. Experience leading system-level trade studies and making sound decisions with incomplete information. Strong working knowledge across several relevant disciplines, such as thermal-fluids, mechanical, structural, power systems, or controls. Experience with verification and validation, and with hazard and risk analysis methods (e.g., FMEA, FTA). Demonstrated technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams without relying on formal authority. Strong written and verbal communication, including producing clear technical documents and presenting to varied audiences. Desired Qualifications & Skills Knowledge of nuclear reactor design, reactor safety, or nuclear regulatory frameworks. Experience with high-temperature systems, thermodynamic power cycles, or power generation systems. Experience with configuration management and change control for hardware programs. Experience transitioning hardware from development builds to repeatable production. Startup or fast-paced hardware development experience. Additional Requirements Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission. Must work 100% onsite at El Segundo HQ. Eligibility to work in the U.S. and ability to meet export control requirements.