System Engineer III

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🏄 California, New Mexico – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Kairos Power

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201 - 500 employees

⚡ Energy

🔬 Science

Energy • Science • Engineering

Kairos Power is a mission-driven engineering company focused on delivering clean, affordable, and safe energy through advanced reactor technology. The company specializes in the integrated design, licensing, and demonstration of a fluoride salt-cooled high temperature reactor, known as KP-FHR, which aims to be cost-competitive with natural gas and offers a path to a clean energy system with a near zero carbon footprint. With a focus on innovative engineering and a mission to improve quality of life while protecting the environment, Kairos Power's advanced reactor technology is designed for high availability, performance, and safety, featuring accident-resistant fuel and low-pressure coolant. The technology supports grid resiliency and security by providing dispatchable power, reducing maintenance and lifecycle costs, and enhancing the integration with renewable energy sources.

📋 Description

• Support the development and integration of advanced nuclear energy systems • Apply systems engineering methods to translate program objectives, stakeholder needs, and design inputs into clear, verifiable technical requirements and integrated system solutions • Develop and maintain requirements, functional architectures, system architectures, interfaces, and verification strategies across product and plant architecture levels • Collaborate with engineering disciplines, project management, licensing, quality, operations, suppliers, and external partners • Identify integration concerns and resolve cross-functional technical issues • Lead focused systems engineering activities • Coordinate multidisciplinary technical reviews • Evaluate system-level impacts of proposed changes • Support management of technical risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies throughout the engineering lifecycle • Mentor less-experienced engineers • Contribute to improving systems engineering processes, tools, templates, training, and command media • Develop, allocate, maintain, and trace technical requirements • Perform functional analysis and decomposition • Develop and maintain functional, logical, and physical system architectures • Define, document, coordinate, and manage internal and external interfaces • Develop verification strategies, methods, plans, acceptance criteria, and evidence • Coordinate and facilitate requirements, architecture, interface, integration, and verification reviews • Support compliance with company procedures, codes, standards, and regulatory requirements • Follow safety procedures, report hazards and equipment issues, and wear required personal protective equipment • Periodic work in prototyping, laboratory, test-facility, manufacturing, or industrial environments • Some travel may be required, up to 10% • Other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in systems engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical field • Relevant professional experience applying systems engineering methods to complex engineering programs or products • Experience developing, allocating, maintaining, and tracing technical requirements • Experience with functional analysis and decomposition, system architecture development, interface definition and management, system integration, requirements verification and validation, or technical change-impact assessment • Experience coordinating technical reviews or leading focused cross-functional engineering activities • Strong technical writing, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills • Knowledge of systems engineering lifecycle processes and technical management practices • Knowledge of requirements development, decomposition, allocation, traceability, verification, and validation • Knowledge of functional, logical, and physical architecture development • Knowledge of interface identification, definition, documentation, and control • Knowledge of system integration, configuration management, and engineering change-control principles • Knowledge of technical risk, assumption, issue, opportunity, and dependency management • General knowledge of engineering design, licensing, quality, operations, and project execution within complex technical programs • Skill in writing clear, concise, implementation-independent, and verifiable technical requirements • Skill in performing functional analysis, architecture development, interface analysis, and change-impact assessment • Skill in using requirements management, modeling, analysis, and documentation tools • Ability to evaluate complex systems holistically and recognize interactions, dependencies, and unintended consequences • Ability to work collaboratively across engineering disciplines, organizations, and levels of technical authority • Ability to balance technical rigor with program cost, schedule, risk, and execution needs • Ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain attention to detail in a fast-paced engineering environment • Ability to proactively collect, organize, manage, and transfer technical knowledge • Occasional schedule flexibility or extended hours may be required to support critical project milestones, technical reviews, testing, or integration activities • Must be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information; certain foreign nationals may require a Department of Energy export control license

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages • Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents • Paid Vacation • 401(k) • Pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA) • Access to benefits for full-time employees (excluding interns)