# Senior QA Engineer - NQA-1 Program Development at The Nuclear Company

- Company: The Nuclear Company
- What the company does: The Nuclear Company is America’s nuclear infrastructure platform. We’re building a fully integrated system to unite the nuclear deployment chain, scale new builds, and drive operations and security. Backed by Eclipse Ventures.
- Company website: https://thenuclearcompany.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Columbia, South Carolina
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $121K to $143K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenuclearcompany/jobs/5435600008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/the-nuclear-company-senior-qa-engineer-nqa-1-program-development/

## About the role

We operate with an AI-first mindset. Every employee is expected to leverage AI, technology, and the Nuclear Operating System (NOS) as integral components of their role to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work. We expect every team member to continuously identify opportunities to automate workflows, enhance decision-making, improve processes, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of NOS as a strategic operating capability that enables The Nuclear Company to scale with excellence.

## What they're looking for

- Author or provide SME input to procedures, records, and technical documents in the assigned discipline
- Review inspection and test procedures and acceptance criteria for nuclear systems and components, verify design outputs meet specified requirements
- Identify inspection requirements and the applicable codes and standards, with references, extract acceptance criteria from design with quantitative limits, specific values, and tolerances
- Set witness and hold points in inspection and test plans
- Support the QAPD and parent-suite artifacts maintained audit-ready, and the phased QA plans for Services, BOO project development, and JV support
- Identify and report conditions adverse to quality promptly through the CAP, feed procedure-production status and quality metrics into the QA metrics pack and the CNO performance-indicator set

Tags: Nuclear Engineering