# Staff Automation and Controls Engineer at Valar Atomics

- Company: Valar Atomics
- What the company does: Valar Atomics is scaling nuclear energy for heavy industrial power and clean hydrocarbon fuel production. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.valaratomics.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Torrance, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/valaratomics/jobs/4410287009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/valar-atomics-staff-automation-and-controls-engineer/

## About the role

Valar Atomics is seeking Staff Automation and Controls Engineers to serve as discipline technical authorities for control system software across our reactor and nuclear fuel manufacturing facilities. The role spans the full controls software domain: PLC and DCS programming, SCADA and HMI applications, ISA-88 batch control, alarm management, safety logic, historians, enterprise integration, and OT infrastructure, from capital project execution through ongoing plant operations.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic, Computer, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- 8+ years of controls software, PLC programming, or SCADA development experience in process industries
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of the controls software scope on at least one major capital project, from functional specification through commissioning and startup
- Expert-level PLC programming on at least one major platform (Rockwell, Siemens, Emerson, or equivalent) across the IEC 61131-3 languages, including application architecture and library design, not just code authorship
- Expert-level SCADA application development on at least one major platform (Ignition, FactoryTalk, AVEVA, WinCC, or equivalent), including architecture-level design of tag structures, templates, and redundancy
- Experience developing safety logic under IEC 61511 within a formal software validation and functional test regime

Tags: Instrumentation & Controls