Senior Plant Control Systems Engineer, Motion Control

The posting, as Kairos Power wrote it

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Job Summary

Kairos Power is seeking a Senior Motion Control Engineer to join the Plant Control Systems team. This role leads programming, electrical design, and integration of motion-control, mechanical-handling, and motor-driven equipment—including cranes, hoists, manipulators, lifts, positioning systems, conveyors, and remotely operated equipment—for use in an advanced nuclear power plant.

The engineer specifies and integrates motors, drives, instrumentation, safety functions, operator interfaces, and plant-control-system interfaces. The role designs and integrates control systems and equipment for a nuclear environment, with attention to safety, defined functional boundaries, documented requirements, verification, configuration control, and rigorous testing throughout the equipment lifecycle—from requirements and design through commissioning and operation.

The engineer is expected to provide technical leadership, mentor less-experienced engineers, lead complex design activities, and independently resolve significant technical issues. The position does not require direct personnel-management responsibility.

Responsibilities

Design and Technical Ownership

• Serve as responsible engineer, system owner, or technical lead for assigned motion-control, electrical-control, motor-drive, and mechanical-handling systems.
• Develop and maintain requirements, functional specifications, interface-control documents, design descriptions, calculations, drawings, equipment data sheets, and verification records.
• Translate plant operating, equipment, environmental, maintenance, and safety requirements into practical electrical and control-system designs.
• Define operating modes, local and remote control functions, manual and automatic operation, startup and shutdown sequences, equipment protection, fault response, alarms, interlocks, permissives, trips, and safe-state behavior.
• Specify and integrate AC motors, servo motors, stepper motors, VFDs, servo drives, stepper drives, motor starters, gearboxes, brakes, encoders, resolvers, limit switches, proximity sensors, load cells, instrumentation, safety devices, control panels, and related equipment.
• Perform or review motor sizing, torque-speed characteristics, duty-cycle and thermal analyses, load and inertia calculations, acceleration/deceleration profiles, drive sizing, braking requirements, cable sizing, electrical protection, grounding, shielding, and power-quality considerations

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alary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, ability and the market data for your work location, and a comparison to other employees already in the role.

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About our Benefits

We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.

Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.

Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810