Alva Energy
Nuclear Energy
6open roles
1backers · Playground
Btruth index, 75 of 100
3cities with offices
Overview
Alva Energy is a US nuclear energy company that uses a standardized power uprate approach to add new capacity to commercial nuclear reactors. It aims to deliver 10 gigawatts of new nuclear capacity to the US grid and hires engineers, procurement and commercial development staff. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, United States.
How Alva Energy hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Alva Energy scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Hiring now
8
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Playground
Momentum
5/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 23, 2025
Partnership Alva Energy collaborates with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab, and MIT on new research on nuclear power de… · alvaenergy.io
Dec 17, 2024
Partnership Alva Energy collaborates with U.S. Department of Energy on its Advanced Nuclear Liftoff Report · alvaenergy.io
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 10%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
1
best: 3 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Jobs
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$150k – $180k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cambridge
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≈ $204k – $383k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cambridge · Philadelphia
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≈ $204k – $383k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cambridge
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$160k – $210k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 6+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cambridge
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$210k
Typical range
$180k – $230k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Senior
33.3%
Staff
66.7%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $210k | $210k |
| Staff | 2 | $205k | $180k – $230k |
Highest paying role
Commercial Development Manager
$230k
Normalized to USD per year
Visa sponsorship
1
H-1B filings in 12 months
$128k
Median offered salary
8
Open roles in United States
Who they sponsor
Nuclear engineers
1
In the register as Alva Energy, Inc, Cambridge, MA
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US Department of Labor · latest filing Apr 23, 2026 · Visa details by country
Growth
Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
8
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
148 days
faster than 7% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
QA
33% ▲
Management
33% ▼
Industrial Engineering
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Design Controls to stack
Oct 2026
Added NRC Licensing to stack
Oct 2026
Added ASME NQA-1 to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Alva Energy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
6
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
60/100
Languages
C++
Python
Developer tools
Microsoft Excel
Practices & domains
ASME NQA-1
NRC Licensing
Design Controls
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News
Pat Gelsinger, former CEO of Intel & VMWare, joins Alva's Board of Directors
Alva Energy announced today that Pat Gelsinger has joined its Board of Directors. One of America's most respected technologists, Pat brings decades of leadership at the forefront of the semiconductor industry, most recently as CEO of Intel and previously
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Alva Energy Launches with $33 Million to Unlock 10 GWe of Nuclear Power
Offers fastest, most affordable and most practical path to multi-gigawatt expansion of clean, firm U.S. power to meet growing demand CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - February 12, 2026 - Alva Energy, the nuclear energy company making it faster and easier to safely boost
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Internationally recognized nuclear safety analysis leader József Bánáti joins Alva Energy as Principal Thermohydraulics Engineer
Alva Energy announced today that Dr. József Bánáti has joined the company as its Principal Thermohydraulics Engineer. At Alva, Dr. Bánáti will lead thermohydraulic modeling and safety analysis for the company's uprate projects. He will be responsible for
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The New York Times covers Alva Energy and Department of Energy analysis on U.S. and Chinese nuclear construction
The New York Times this week covered the findings of Alva Energy's recent analysis conducted with the U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and MIT, examining how nuclear construction timelines c
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Nuclear Engineering & Design publishes Alva's research on the construction economics of modular nuclear reactor designs
Does "smaller" actually mean "more modular" in nuclear power? Alva's latest research, published in Nuclear Engineering & Design, explores this question to reveal some fascinating insights about the complex scaling relationships in nuclear plant design. A
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Alva Energy collaborates with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab, and MIT on new research on nuclear power deployment in the U.S. & China
Alva Energy, in collaboration with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and MIT, has published a new analysis for the U.S. Department of Energy examining how costs and construction schedules for large nuclear plants can d
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Nuclear licensing and operations veteran Steven Mannon joins Alva Energy as Chief Engineer, Licensing.
Alva Energy announced today that Steven Mannon has joined the company as Chief Engineer, Licensing. Steve will lead licensing strategy and regulatory engagement across Alva's nuclear projects. He brings decades of nuclear industry experience spanning Lice
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Nuclear construction veteran Richard Kalman joins Alva Energy as SVP of Projects
Alva Energy announced today that Rich Kalman has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Projects, where he will provide the execution backbone for Alva's power-uprate and new-build programs. With more than 40 years in nuclear construction, operati
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Alva Energy collaborates with U.S. Department of Energy on its Advanced Nuclear Liftoff Report
The U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has published its landmark Advanced Nuclear Liftoff Report, setting a concrete technical and policy vision for American nuclear power development. The report includes insight from Alva Energy on constru
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cambridge
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Headquarters
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Cambridge
United States
HQ
8 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 13% engineering $207k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Leadership, QA
New York
United States
Sales office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days $230k Avg Salary
hires for Management
Philadelphia
United States
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles
hires for Leadership