Company Overview
Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.
Job Summary
Kairos Power, LLC is seeking a highly motivated entry-level or mid-career supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) engineer with expertise in software development. In this role, you will build and maintain key software assets to support operations and test systems of a Gen IV nuclear reactor. You will also support industrial plant computer infrastructure and develop software tools that facilitate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
Responsibilities
- Develop industrial control user interface modules based on the Kairos Design System
- Test software with interdisciplinary stakeholders to iterate on requirements and usability
- Implement programming logic between software and hardware systems
- Maintain live applications and support users during industrial facility operations
- Develop APIs between different software tools
- Implement cross platform communications and access between different data publishers and subscribers including audio and video data
- Design and test algorithms to detect off-normal plant behavior
Qualifications
- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
- Experience with any: SCADA, HMI, Electronic Procedures, Plant Simulators, Control System programming
- Programming proficiency (Java, Python, C++, C#) required
- Web development experience (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) preferred
- Demonstrated experience working with stakeholders to understand and develop software requirements
- Proficiency in computer methods for data acquisition, control, and analysis
- Proficiency with structured query languages (SQL, PostgreSQL) preferred
- Background knowledge in user experience design, human factors, and industrial automation design (using Ignition or similar) desired
- Experience working in a laboratory or research environment
- Ability to work on tasks and teams that require a multi-disciplinary approach
- Proven team player with excellent verbal, written communication/presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work alone on assigned work projects
- Excited to work on advanced nuclear and contribute to Kairos’ mission
Functional competencies:
- Ability to work with highly collaborative team
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
- Prioritizes and ensures safety of one self and others
- Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
- Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues
Physical Conditions
- Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, scissor lifts, articulated boom lifts and the like
- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
- Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
- Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 30 pounds in all directions
- Communicating with others to exchange information
- Use hand tools
- Repetitive assembly operations of manufacturing test fixtures and test setups in collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams
Environmental Conditions
- General office environment
- Low temperatures
- High temperatures
- Outdoor environment or elements such as precipitation and wind
- Noisy environments
- Small and/or enclosed spaces
- Odors or fumes from chemicals or chemical reactions
- Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned
- High-concentration, demanding and fast-paced
Safety and PPE
- Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
- Manipulating, cleaning and disposal of hazardous materials
- Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
- Color identification: detecting, distinguishing, recognizing and identifying colors
- Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes
Travel
- Some travel may be required up to 20%
- Must have reliable transportation to transition between Alameda, CA headquarters and Jack London Square Manufacturing location in Oakland, CA in alignment with projects and assignments
Certification
- B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
Additional Requirements
- Requires schedule flexibility (occasionally)
- Requires non-standard work-week hours (seldom)
- Requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines (seldom)
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About our Benefits
We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:
- Competitive compensation packages
- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
- Paid Vacation
- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)
Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.
Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.
Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.
Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810
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What We Do
Kairos Power has a mission to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal of dramatically improving people’s quality of life while protecting the environment.
We are an engineering company focused on the delivery of a clean, affordable and safe energy solution through the integrated design, licensing and demonstration of advanced reactor technology.
Growing from a broad research effort at U.S. universities and national laboratories, Kairos Power was founded to accelerate the development of an innovative nuclear technology that has the potential to transform the energy landscape in the United States and internationally.
Kairos Power is focused on reducing technical risk through a novel approach to test iteration often lacking in the nuclear space. Our schedule is driven by the goal of a U.S. demonstration plant before 2030 and a rapid deployment thereafter.
The challenge is great, but so too is the opportunity.
