Facility Cognizant System Engineer

Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we’re rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world’s first fleet of advanced microreactors.

Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.

About the role

Aalo Atomics is seeking a Facility Cognizant System Engineer (CSE) to provide lifecycle technical ownership of the Critical Assembly Facility (CAF) on the Aalo-X site and engineering support for its building and infrastructure systems.

This role combines two closely related functions: serve as the Cognizant System Engineer for the CAF facility system and assigned configuration-managed facility SSCs, including special-treatment structures and components such as the basemat and biological shielding; and serve as the responsible engineer for the facility's broader non-safety building and infrastructure systems.

You will be the engineer who understands the facility: how it was designed, how its configuration is controlled, how its structures and building systems are performing, and what must be done when the facility is modified, repaired, or begins to degrade.

This is a hands-on role. You will spend meaningful time in the field performing walkdowns, inspecting equipment, supporting maintenance, troubleshooting facility problems, reviewing modifications, maintaining documentation, and driving practical improvements.

What you'll do

Cognizant System Engineering - CAF Facility

• Serve as the assigned CSE and principal engineering point of contact for the Critical Assembly Facility system, including CAF structural and facility-system technical issues.
• Maintain detailed knowledge of the facility design basis, configuration, performance requirements, interfaces, and physical condition, and ensure facility configuration remains consistent with approved requirements, drawings, analyses, and documentation.
• Maintain the applicable Facility Design Description/System Design Description and supporting technical documents.
• Maintain cognizance over configuration-managed and special-treatment facility SSCs, including assigned basemat, structural, shielding, and related components.

Facility System Ownership

• Facility structural and architectural components, building envelope, doors and access systems.
• Basemat and foundation components; biological shielding.
• HVAC, normal/non-safety electrical distribution, and lighting.
• Fire detection/protection systems and cranes/hoists where assigned; site utilities, drainage, and other supporting building and facility systems.

Facility Condition & Reliability

• Perform routine facility walkdowns and material-condition inspections.
• Monitor facility and equipment condition for degradation, damage, corrosion, settlement, water intrusion, abnormal equipment behavior, or other adverse conditions, drawing on applicable inspections, maintenance history, test data, and operating information.
• Maintain system-health and performance-trending records for assigned facility systems.
• Identify recurring facility problems and develop corrective and preventive solutions.
• Escalate conditions that challenge design requirements, configuration, or required facility functions.

Operations & Maintenance Support

• Provide engineering support to Operations and Maintenance for facility-system issues.
• Supply design-basis and technical input to preventive and corrective maintenance activities.
• Troubleshoot HVAC, building electrical, structural, access, fire-system, and other assigned facility issues.
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