# Principal Software 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 As part of the Engineering organization, Software Engineering builds the internal platforms and tools that power reactor design, fuel manufacturing, licensing, and plant operations. The team partners directly with engineering, manufacturing, and operations to deliver full-stack software, integrate enterprise systems, and preserve traceability from requirement to as-built. The Role The Principal Software Engineer will own the technical architecture of the operating system for Valar-the telemetry systems that capture every second of reactor and fuel t

- **Id**: 4212877
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/valar-atomics-principal-software-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Torrance, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T19:47:08Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T01:39:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7734
- **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**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 15
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 48
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 195000
- **Max**: 270000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 270000

## Technologies

- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no
- **21 CFR Part 11** — Optional: yes
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **ASME NQA-1** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **HPC** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LIMS** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: yes
- **MQTT** — Optional: yes
- **OPC UA** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T01:39:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 48
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T03:44:47Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 270000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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