Nuclear Safety Integration Lead

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.

We are seeking a Nuclear Safety Integration Lead to coordinate and integrate the technical inputs needed to develop and defend Aalo's DOE safety basis and Preliminary Documented Safety Analysis (PDSA). Reporting to the Nuclear Safety Manager, this role serves as a critical integration point among the DOE authorization team, the Risk and Reliability group, thermal-hydraulics, neutronics, design, and other contributing engineering teams.

You will ensure that safety requirements are understood, responsibilities are clear, and the resulting analyses support a consistent and defensible safety case.

This is a high-visibility coordination role that requires deep familiarity with DOE safety basis requirements, strong technical judgment across multiple engineering disciplines, and the ability to drive alignment among diverse technical teams on complex analytical products. You will work closely with the DOE authorization lead and responsible technical teams to translate regulatory requirements into actionable engineering work, identify integration issues early, and ensure that the PDSA and related safety documentation are technically sound and defensible.

• Develop and maintain an integrated PDSA content, requirements, and responsibility plan that defines scope, ownership, interfaces, and delivery milestones for all contributing technical teams.
• Coordinate the preparation, integration, internal review, and technical defense of the PDSA and related DOE safety documentation, working with the DOE authorization lead and responsible technical teams.
• Translate applicable DOE safety-basis requirements and standards into specific analysis, report, and data needs for contributing engineering teams, including clear interfaces and dependencies.
• Identify analytical methods, codes, and key assumptions requiring DOE alignment, and coordinate early and ongoing engagement with DOE through the DOE authorization lead to confirm their suitability for intended safety-basis applications.
• Coordinate the integration of inputs from Risk and Reliability, including PRA, deterministic safety analysis, dose consequences, thermal-hydraulics, neutronics, fuel performance, hazards analysis, and supporting engineering information into the DOE safety case.
• Identify gaps, inconsistent assumptions, missing interfaces, and unresolved technical questions that could affect the PDSA, DOE authorization, design, resources, or schedule, and communicate them to the appropriate decision-makers.
• Establish a structured process for providing safety and risk feedback to design teams and tracking the resolution of safety-related design questions.
• Define how safety inputs are communicated to design teams, document the basis for their disposition, maintain traceability to affected analyses and requirements, and confirm closure with responsible teams.
• Facilitate technical integration meetings and working sessions to resolve cross-discipline analytical interfaces, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Track and manage the status of PDSA deliverables, technical inputs, and open items across contributing teams, escalating schedule or quality risks as appropriate.
• Support the development of responses to DOE requests for additional information,…