Nuclear reactor developer building fuel manufacturing and pilot plants
Valar Atomics is an El Segundo nuclear energy startup whose stack mixes industrial control (SCADA, DCS, FactoryTalk), power-systems design (ETAP, AutoCAD Electrical) and CFD (ANSYS Fluent), the toolkit of a team moving from design into physical plant operation. Hiring is accelerating, senior-heavy and concentrated in engineering and manufacturing, matching active projects in TRISO fuel production and a first pilot plant demonstration.
Notable leadership hires: Fabrication Lead
Valar Atomics is a privately held nuclear energy company founded in 2023 and headquartered in El Segundo, California. It develops atomic energy systems positioned to produce gas and power, with near-term work centered on pilot plants and nuclear fuel manufacturing. The company has 11–50 employees and hires exclusively in the United States. Its teams span engineering, manufacturing, finance, legal, regulatory and security functions, and it uses CAD tools including SolidWorks, NX, CATIA and Creo alongside Azure and AWS infrastructure.
Valar Atomics uses ETAP, AutoCAD Electrical, ANSYS Fluent, SolidWorks, NX, CATIA and Creo for design, plus SCADA, DCS, FactoryTalk, Grafana and InfluxDB for operations, running on Azure, AWS and Proxmox.
Job posts point to nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities, a TRISO manufacturing pilot line, turbomachinery design, a first pilot plant demonstration including a pilot plant in Orangeville, and an ERP implementation.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and led by engineering and manufacturing, skewed toward senior and staff-level roles, with additional openings in finance, legal, regulatory and security, all in the United States.
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