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Valar Atomics

Senior Software Engineer

Valar Atomics · Torrance, California, United States

Posted 22 days ago

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This role has been open
22 days
Valar Atomics's roles stay open a median of 42 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Valar Atomics's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Valar Atomics
high
37 stale, 4 reposted of 84 open
Hiring momentum
105 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

The Senior Software Engineer at Valar Atomics will be responsible for architecting and developing full-stack software systems that support reactor design, fuel manufacturing, and plant operations. This role involves building user-friendly web interfaces, integrating commercial systems, and ensuring operational health through CI/CD practices. The engineer will collaborate closely with various teams and lead design and code reviews while utilizing AI coding tools in their workflow.

Our read on this posting3.6out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
4/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 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.

Nice to have

  • 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.

What you get

  • Competitive base salary
  • Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
  • Comprehensive medical benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
  • Generous PPE stipend

Worth weighing

  • Salary range is $144,000 — $195,000 USD, which may vary based on experience and negotiation.
  • The role requires regular travel to the Orangeville, Utah pilot plant, which may impact work-life balance.
  • The position involves significant collaboration across various engineering and operational teams, which may require strong interpersonal skills.

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Listed by Valar Atomics on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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