# Automation and Controls Engineer

About Valar Atomics At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable-unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. The Team You will be joining Valar Atomics' Automation and Controls Team within the Instrumentation, Control & Electrical (IC&E) organization. I&C Software Engineers own the logic and data layer PLC and DCS application code, ISA-88 batch sequences, SCADA and HMI applications, historian infrastructure, and enterprise integration across the reactor program and fuel manufacturing operations. You will work alongside I&C Hardware, electrical, process, and nuclear safety engineers in an environment that blends traditional control systems with modern software and dat

- **Id**: 1014685
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/valar-atomics-automation-and-controls-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Torrance, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T19:40:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T13:38:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8769
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Nuclear Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 19389
- **Name**: Valar Atomics
- **Domain**: valaratomics.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/valar-atomics>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 14
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.643
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 137000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 137000

## Technologies

- **Git** — Optional: no
- **OPC UA** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-17T22:19:24Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.537
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 53
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 137000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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