Job Description: DevOps Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Onsite (El Segundo, CA - greater Los Angeles)
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

Radiant is a clean energy startup building a nuclear microreactor. We are seeking a driven DevOps Engineer to build software infrastructure, deployment and automation projects. This role will involve collaborating across the entire organization and working closely with the software team to implement scalable, secure, and resilient DevOps practices, tools, and systems. The infrastructure you manage, pipelines you build, and analysis tools you design and maintain will be used to design, run, and analyze the first new reactor design in 50 years, and you'll have the opportunity to build a strong foundation for reactor manufacturing and production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 4+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform (or other IaC tools)
• Familiarity with Git and common CI/CD frameworks
• Comfort writing scripts or software applications for automation

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain infrastructure across AWS and on-prem environments
• Optimize Kubernetes and Docker container orchestration to run simulations and internal tools
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines with Git, Argo, and other automation tools
• Build and maintain internal tooling to support developer workflows
• Lead by example, promoting best practices in DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, and cloud security across the organization

Desired Qualifications and Skills

• Highly self-motivated with strong communication skills
• Experience deploying and maintaining cloud-native applications in production
• Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools
• Previous work in a highly regulated environment is a plus
• Passion for clean, maintainable code and empowering engineers via automation
• Interest in physics, hardware and electrical engineering

Company Information

Radiant is an El-Segundo, CA-based clean energy startup. Our goal is to bring one of the world's first factory-constructed microreactors to market. We plan to test our development reactor by 2026 and if successful, it will be the first new commercial reactor design to achieve a fueled test in over 50 years.

Employee Benefits

• Stock: Substantial incentive stock plan for all full time, salaried 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.