Valar Atomics
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Nuclear Energy
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$1.2B
1 round on record
Latest round
$1.2B
Series B · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
61
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
96
+36 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
AlleyCorp, Crosscut Ventures
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
45/100
hiring for its size, a new city, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
2
best: 5 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Aug 2026 | $1.2B | — | labusinessjournal.com |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
AlleyCorp 
Crosscut Ventures 
Initialized Capital 
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How Valar Atomics hires
Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
49 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
77%
Reposted roles
0%
Valar Atomics scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 13 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 77% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 49 days. 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
Overview
Founded in 2023 by Isaiah Taylor, Valar Atomics is an advanced nuclear technology company headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company specializes in the design, standardized engineering, and factory mass-manufacturing of High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors (HTGRs) powered by TRISO (Tristructural-Isotropic) fuel. Its modular nuclear technology is built to deliver scalable, zero-carbon electricity and high-temperature thermal power designed specifically for heavy industrial processes, clean synthetic hydrocarbon fuel production, and large-scale gigasites.
News
Valar Atomics hosts community open house, giving a public glimpse at its Ward-250 test reactor Read more
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Valar Atomics welcomes community for reactor facility open house - ETV News
Valar Atomics press release ORANGEVILLE - Valar Atomics will host a community open house on Thursday, Feb. 26, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at its site within the San Rafael Energy Research Lab. Residents of Carbon and Emery Counties are invited to visit the re
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US military airlifts small reactor as Trump pushes to quickly deploy nuclear power
The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is the potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use.
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Emery County Commission approves letter of support for Valar Atomics as Ward250 reactor arrives in the Castle Country Read more
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Pentagon Airlifts Microreactor to Utah in First C-17 Nuclear Transport
The US has airlifted a compact nuclear reactor from California to Utah, marking the first time a C-17 military transport aircraft has transported a nuclear microreactor.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Valar Atomics over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
106
Postings analysed
80
Stack modernity
64/100
Languages
Python21%
SQL16%
C#6%
JavaScript4%
Frameworks & libraries
Flink1%
Databases
InfluxDB5%
PostgreSQL5%
Cloud & platforms
AWS11%
Windows6%
Azure6%
Grafana6%
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Full Valar Atomics tech stack
106 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$70k – $300k
Open positions
65
59
Jobs
Junior
5.1%
Middle
16.9%
Senior
49.2%
Staff
15.3%
Principal
5.1%
Architect
8.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 3 | $137k | $137k – $140k |
| Middle | 10 | $215k | $120k – $220k |
| Senior | 29 | $180k | $115k – $240k |
| Staff | 9 | $211k | $140k – $300k |
| Principal | 3 | $240k | $240k |
| Architect | 5 | $300k | $275k – $300k |
Highest paying role
Project Manager, Commercial Projects
$300k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Valar Atomics
By role, level and city, against the market · 65 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
94
30 opened / 23 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
44 days
faster than 30% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
10/27/2026
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.
Industrial Engineering
42% ▲
Field & Service
12% ▲
Operations
8%
Hardware
7% ▼
Energy
7% ▲
HR
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+22 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added EVMS to stack
Oct 2026
Added AI Agents to stack
Oct 2026
Added IBM DOORS to stack
Oct 2026
Added PSS/E to stack
Oct 2026
Added IEC 61850 to stack
Oct 2026
Added ETAP to stack
Oct 2026
Added CAPA to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Orangeville
Oct 2026
Added Windows Server to stack
Oct 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack
Oct 2026
Added Active Directory to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
4
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Torrance
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El Segundo
United States
HQ
Torrance
United States
Plant / site
Torrance
78 open roles 88 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $189k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Energy, Finance
Orangeville
United States
Plant / site
Orangeville
23 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 4% engineering 50-200 est. staff $175k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Management
Hawthorne
United States
Regional office
Hawthorne
Jobs
$173k – $211k per year · Equity · In office · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
Python
SQL
Rest API
Life Sciences
LIMS
MedTech
21 CFR Part 11
Energy
ASME NQA-1
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$225k – $290k per year · Equity · In office · 15+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
PSS/E
PSCAD
ETAP
PowerFactory
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$144k – $176k per year · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
Python
MATLAB
MCNP
NRC Licensing
ASME NQA-1
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≈ $85k – $154k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 1+ year exp · Bachelor's Degree · Orangeville
ETAP
ASME NQA-1
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≈ $103k – $194k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Torrance
Windows
DNS
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Active Directory
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$125k – $210k per year · Equity · In office · Torrance
Windows
DNS
Cybersecurity
Least Privilege
Active Directory
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≈ $137k – $277k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Orangeville
Fuel
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$140k – $190k per year · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
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≈ $117k – $221k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Orangeville
AutoCAD
Life Sciences
Mass Spectrometry
MedTech
21 CFR Part 11
Design Controls
Energy
NRC Licensing
ASME NQA-1
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$190k – $240k per year · Equity · In office · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Torrance
AS9100
FMEA
Energy
NRC Licensing
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Financials
Total raised
$1.2B
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2026 | $1.2B | Details |