Why This Role Is Critical:
As the need for nuclear energy grows, the future couldn’t be brighter. Join our vital mission to create lasting solutions for our planet’s greatest challenges. In this role, you are ready to shape the future of clean energy and make a long-lasting global impact. With us, anticipate engaging and challenging projects that deliver innovative solutions and value-added technologies helping power more than 38 million North American homes.
Framatome is leveraging digital technologies to enhance the safety and performance of the North American fleet. This role sits at the center of that transformation, helping translate business needs into secure, valuable digital solutions.
Within the Installed Base America (IB-A) Business Unit, you will serve as a Full Stack Software Engineer as a subject-matter leader. You will provide fundamental programming and consulting services for various internal customers to modernize Framatome’s business processes through digital transformation.
This role offers the opportunity to directly influence the safety and efficiency of critical energy infrastructure while developing expertise in deploying cutting-edge applications and tools. You'll collaborate with teams ranging from field operations to senior leadership.
What You’ll Do Day-To-Day:
- Implement technical requirements: Write code to implement features by following specifications, and designs.
- Quality Control: Verify software through testing, code reviews, and documentation.
- Technical risk and quality ownership: Identify systemic technical risks, propose mitigation strategies, and ensure high-reliability software in safety-critical environments.
- Partner with Stakeholders: Lead identifying operational challenges and requirements using off the shelf products such as LLMs, ML tools, Framatome’s software portfolio, and new/emerging technologies.
- Learn: Industry best practices, time management tools, emerging technologies.
- Research: Expand team knowledge by researching emerging technologies and presenting key findings.
- Ownership: You will be asked to own part or all of one or more applications, making strategic leadership decisions, and being responsible for creating and defending software design decisions. This includes defining technical requirements, breaking down work into tasks, and guiding feature implementation from concept to completion.
- System-level thinking: Lead architectural design and long-term technical strategy for one or more applications.
- Leadership: Provide guidance and mentorship to newer engineers you may work alongside. This includes helping them understand best practices, reviewing their code, supporting their technical growth, and contributing to a collaborative learning environment. You may also assist in onboarding, offering technical direction, and reinforcing team standards to help junior team members succeed.
- Cross-team influence: Drive alignment across teams and ensure engineering practices and standards are consistently applied.
- Business Impact: Translate high-level business needs into scalable, long-term digital solutions with measurable impact.
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical discipline. Equivalent work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Minimum of 7 years of related experience required.
- Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable presenting to internal customers.
- Teamwork: Ability to develop and maintain strong interpersonal relationships; work collaboratively.
- Time Management: Ability to manage tasks effectively for yourself and others.
- Expert-level Software Development: Write code to create full stack applications using Python, C#, TypeScript, CSS, and modern frameworks such as Vue or React.
- Experience architecting and deploying AI/ML solutions: Passion for leveraging LLMs, building AI tools and Agents to complete complex tasks.
- Experience designing and governing data architecture: Ability to document data structures, create ETLs and reports.
- Experience establishing or maturing DevSecOps practices across teams or organizations: Strong understanding of secure software development practices, including integrating security into CI/CD pipelines, automating security scans, managing vulnerabilities, and ensuring compliance throughout the development lifecycle. Experience implementing secure coding standards and collaborating with security stakeholders to drive proactive risk reduction.
- Complex Systems Upgrades & Migrations: Experience planning and leading large scale system upgrades, platform modernizations, or technology migrations. Able to evaluate technical risk, coordinate across multiple teams, create phased migration strategies, and ensure continuity of operations for mission critical applications.
- Occasional domestic travel (<15%) to customer sites and Framatome facilities. Periodic international travel to France, Germany, and other Framatome locations for R&D meetings and coordination on digital initiatives
- Mobile Development: Native or React Native or other frameworks.
- Cloud Architecture: Experience designing and implementing secure, scalable cloud architectures (Azure, AWS, or similar). Ability to evaluate cloud native services, lead migrations to cloud platforms, define infrastructure patterns, and ensure resilience, performance, and cost effective operation across enterprise systems.
Total Rewards Package:
- Salary: $99,000 - $134,000, and may also include annual incentives and performance bonuses. The base salary range is a guideline. Individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies and work location.
- Health & Wellness: Multiple medical plan options, dental & vision coverage, life insurance, long- and short-term disability, and optional supplemental plans (critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, dependent life).
- Retirement: 401(k) with employer match.
- Paid Time Off: Up to 3 weeks of vacation, 8 sick days, and 13 paid holidays annually.
- Extra Perks: Lifestyle spending account, employer paid mental health support, education reimbursement, professional development opportunities, adoption assistance, parental leave, and employee assistance programs.
About Framatome:
Framatome has been shaping the future of nuclear energy in the U.S. for more than 60 years. Framatome Inc. is headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia, with more than 2,400+ employees across North America supporting nearly every nuclear plant in the nation.
From our facilities in Virginia, Washington, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and beyond, we deliver outage services, advanced nuclear fuel technologies, and next-gen reactor innovations that keep the lights on.
At Framatome, you will join a global team committed to creating reliable, carbon-free energy. Here, you can:
- Solve complex nuclear challenges that directly impact the climate.
- Build your career through technical fellowships, leadership roles, and global opportunities.
- Do your best work in a culture that values safety, innovation, and well-being.
Framatome is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Offers are contingent on background check and drug screen (where applicable). Positions may involve access to information subject to U.S. export control regulations; applicants must meet eligibility requirements (see DOE 810 Appendix A).