Senior Electrical Engineer, PCB

About Radiant

Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based startup building the world’s first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. Rising energy demand is straining the U.S. grid and driving up utility costs, emissions, and interconnection backlogs. Radiant decentralizes energy, producing power close to where it’s used. Its first reactor, Kaleidos, is a factory-built, 1-megawatt, fail-safe microreactor that can be transported by land, sea, or air and runs up to 5 years without refueling. Deployed locally without a decade-long build or permitting fight, Kaleidos provides independent power for critical infrastructure like military bases, data centers, hospitals, and remote sites. Founded in 2020, Radiant is under contract to deliver power to the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and has pre-order agreements with Equinix, with deployments beginning in 2028.

About the Role

Radiant is seeking a Senior Electrical Engineer focused on PCB development, mixed-signal design, high-speed interfaces, power distribution, and signal integrity, supporting the data acquisition, signal conditioning, data sampling, and reactor control operations behind Kaleidos, our commercial microreactor targeted for customer deployment in 2028. This is an opportunity to join a world-class micro-nuclear reactor company and develop critical electrical hardware for terrestrial reactor control systems, with a long-term path toward space reactor applications. You’ll join a talented, innovative electronics team and own the design, development, and delivery of mission-critical PCBs.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Own the PCB design that controls a micro nuclear reactor.

• Design multilayer mixed-signal PCBAs for reactor control and instrumentation that operate in harsh environments, terrestrial today, with space applications ahead.

• Design low-noise analog front-end circuits and integrate them with ADC and digital subsystems.

• Own schematic capture, component selection, performance analysis, placement, layout, fabrication, and assembly.

• Design boards that may include high-speed communication, sensor interfaces, data acquisition paths, and communication buses, focusing on build quality, signal integrity, power integrity, grounding, and EMI/EMC mitigation to operate seamlessly in a nuclear reactor.

• Bring up, debug, and validate hardware through board-level testing, instrumentation, and root-cause analysis.

• Write and execute the validation and qualification plans that prove performance, reliability, and environmental margin, and present them in design reviews.

• Work directly with firmware, FPGA, DSP, and software engineers at the hardware-software boundary.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

• 5+ years designing custom PCBs, including multilayer and mixed-signal boards.

• Prior experience delivering hardware you designed, from schematic capture through layout, assembly, bring-up, and qualification into production or field deployment.

• Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout tools, specifically Altium.

• Hands-on experience with board bring-up, debugging, and lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, VNAs).

Desired Qualifications and Skills

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

• Experience in signal integrity, power integrity, grounding strategies, and EMI/EMC mitigation.

• Analog and mixed-signal design experience, including sensor interfaces, ADC/DAC integration, low-noise practices, and high-speed interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART, Ethernet) with their layout constraints.

• Experience designing for high-reliability or harsh environments (nuclear, aerospace, defense, or industrial), including radiation effects and radiation-tolerant design.

• Experience with FPGA or microprocessor PCBs and embedded systems supporting hardware/software co-design.

• Experience with power electronics or power distribution design.

• Familiarity with nuclear instrumentation or detector interface electronics.

• Experience with electronics production and bring-up.

Additional Requirements:

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission

• Must work 100% onsite at El Segundo HQ

Benefits and Perks

• Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.

• Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.

• One Medical: Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents.

• Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents.

• Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.

• Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.

• 8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.

• Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.

• Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.

• Company and team-bonding events, happy hours and in-person camaraderie.

• Beautiful El Segundo headquarters close to the Pacific Ocean.

Total Compensation and BenefitsRadiant compensates people for impact and invests in those who continue to raise the bar. Radiant’s new hire compensation package includes base salary, substantial equity grants, and comprehensive health benefits. Total compensation and level are determined through a rigorous evaluation of interview performance, experience, education, and qualifications, and are designed to support continued growth as scope, responsibility, and impact expand at Radiant.The best of today’s advanced reactor builders don’t wait for job postings. They join the winning team. If that’s you, contact us directly for immediate opportunities:

recruiting@radiantnuclear.com

This position involves access to technology that is subject to U.S. export controls. Any job offer made will be contingent upon the applicant’s capacity to serve in compliance with U.S. export controls.