{"id":2471202,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aalo-atomics-facility-cognizant-system-engineer","title":"Facility Cognizant System Engineer","company":{"id":668768,"name":"Aalo Atomics","domain":"aalo.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/aalo","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Rippling","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":94,"open_postings":36,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.028,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":84,"computed_at":"2026-10-23T05:54:15Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Idaho Falls, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":83000,"max_usd":156000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":5966},"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Design Controls","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-13T03:35:03Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-13","last_verified_at":"2026-10-23T05:08:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":10,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":10},"description":"About Aalo Atomics\nAalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors. Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.\nAbout the role\nAalo Atomics is seeking a Facility Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to provide lifecycle technical ownership of the Critical Assembly Facility (CAF) on the Aalo-X site and engineering support for its building and infrastructure systems.\nThis role combines two closely related functions: serve as the Cognizant System Engineer for the CAF facility system and assigned configuration-managed facility SSCs, including special-treatment structures and components such as the basemat and biological shielding; and serve as the responsible engineer for the facility's broader non-safety building and infrastructure systems.\nYou will be the engineer who understands the facility: how it was designed, how its configuration is controlled, how its structures and building systems are performing, and what must be done when the facility is modified, repaired, or begins to degrade.\nThis is a hands-on role. You will spend meaningful time in the field performing walkdowns, inspecting equipment, supporting maintenance, troubleshooting facility problems, reviewing modifications, maintaining documentation, and driving practical improvements.\nWhat you'll do\nCognizant System Engineering - CAF Facility\nServe as the assigned CSE and principal engineering point of contact for the Critical Assembly Facility system, including CAF structural and facility-system technical issues.\nMaintain detailed knowledge of the facility design basis, configuration, performance requirements, interfaces, and physical condition, and ensure facility configuration remains consistent with approved requirements, drawings, analyses, and documentation.\nMaintain the applicable Facility Design Description/System Design Description and supporting technical documents.\nMaintain cognizance over configuration-managed and special-treatment facility SSCs, including assigned basemat, structural, shielding, and related components.\nFacility System Ownership\nFacility structural and architectural components, building envelope, doors and access systems.\nBasemat and foundation components; biological shielding.\nHVAC, normal/non-safety electrical distribution, and lighting.\nFire detection/protection systems and cranes/hoists where assigned; site utilities, drainage, and other supporting building and facility systems.\nFacility Condition & Reliability\nPerform routine facility walkdowns and material-condition inspections.\nMonitor facility and equipment condition for degradation, damage, corrosion, settlement, water intrusion, abnormal equipment behavior, or other adverse conditions, drawing on applicable inspections, maintenance history, test data, and operating information.\nMaintain system-health and performance-trending records for assigned facility systems.\nIdentify recurring facility problems and develop corrective and preventive solutions.\nEscalate conditions that challenge design requirements, configuration, or required facility functions.\nOperations & Maintenance Support\nProvide engineering support to Operations and Maintenance for facility-system issues.\nSupply design-basis and technical input to preventive and corrective maintenance activities.\nTroubleshoot HVAC, building electrical, structural, access, fire-system, and other assigned facility issues.\nSupport equipment-failure investigations and corrective-action development.\nEstablish or review technical acceptance criteria for repairs and testing.\nVerify that completed work restores the required facility configuration and performance.\nConfiguration & Change Management\nMaintain facility drawings, design descriptions, calculations, equipment records, specifications, vendor information, and related controlled documentation.\nParticipate in engineering change reviews affecting the CAF and assigned building systems.\nPerform or support physical configuration walkdowns and design assessments, and resolve discrepancies between installed field conditions and controlled documentation.\nSupport USQ screening/evaluation activities where facility modifications could affect the safety basis.\nEnsure facility modifications are appropriately designed, reviewed, tested, documented, and incorporated into the configuration baseline.\nFacility Modifications & Projects\nDevelop or support engineering solutions for facility repairs, improvements, and modifications.\nPrepare calculations, sketches, drawings, specifications, scopes of work, and technical evaluations.\nSupport application of appropriate structural, mechanical, electrical, fire, and building codes.\nCoordinate with specialty engineers and external Engineers of Record when required.\nSupport contractor selection and technical bid evaluations.\nProvide technical oversight during installation and construction.\nDefine acceptance and post-modification testing.\nVerify completion of as-built documentation and configuration updates.\nCodes, Standards & Technical Areas\nIBC and applicable building-code requirements.\nACI concrete requirements.\nAISC structural-steel requirements.\nNFPA electrical and fire-protection requirements.\nHVAC/mechanical codes.\nOSHA requirements.\nNatural Phenomena Hazard and seismic requirements applicable to assigned SSCs.\nAalo's Code of Record and configuration-management requirements.\nFuture Facilities\nParticipate in Aalo-0 and Aalo-X reactor facility design reviews with emphasis on operability, maintainability, accessibility, inspection, reliability, configuration control, and lifecycle cost.\nSupport commissioning, facility turnover, and establishment of as-built configuration baselines.\nHelp establish long-term Facility Engineering ownership as Aalo-0 and the Aalo-X reactor enter operation.\nNote: CAF does not have conventional process-water or sanitary utility systems, and these are not default responsibilities of this role.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Mechanical, Civil, Structural, Electrical, Architectural, Facilities, or another relevant engineering discipline.\n5+ years of relevant facility, plant, nuclear, construction, or maintenance engineering experience.\nExperience supporting operating buildings, industrial facilities, or infrastructure systems.\nAbility to interpret facility drawings, structural details, specifications, calculations, equipment data, and vendor documentation.\nStrong practical troubleshooting and field-engineering capability.\nExperience supporting facility repairs, maintenance, modifications, or construction.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.\nWillingness to spend significant time in the facility working directly with operators, maintenance personnel, contractors, and vendors.\nAbility to independently own facility technical issues through resolution.\nPreferred\n7-10+ years of relevant facility or nuclear plant engineering experience.\nPrevious experience as a Cognizant System Engineer, System Engineer, Facility Engineer, or Responsible System Engineer.\nDOE nuclear-facility or national laboratory experience.\nFamiliarity with DOE-STD-1073 configuration-management principles.\nExperience with nuclear facility structures, foundations, biological shielding, or special-treatment SSCs.\nExperience with reinforced-concrete design, foundations, building structures, or seismic/NPH considerations.\nExperience with HVAC, normal electrical distribution, fire detection/protection, cranes/hoists, or facility infrastructure.\nFamiliarity with IBC, ACI, AISC, NFPA, OSHA, and other applicable facility codes and standards.\nExperience with USQ processes, configuration management, design control, facility walkdowns, and corrective-action programs.\nProfessional Engineer license.\nExperience with Teamcenter or comparable configuration/document-management systems.\nRequirements:\nBased in the United States\nWilling to work on-site in Idaho Falls, Idaho\nWhat We Offer:\nCompetitive salary based on technical level \nHealth, Dental, Vision Insurance\nPaid Time Off\nCorporate Gym Membership\nAdditional Information:\nAalo Atomics provides a collaborative and supportive work environment, opportunities for professional growth, intellectually challenging careers, and competitive compensation. Aalo Atomics is an equal opportunity employer and considers all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nApplicants must be U.S. Citizens or U.S. Persons in compliance with 10 CFR Part 810 and may not hold non-compliant foreign citizenships.\nDirect applicants only. 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