Engineering Manager, Electronics

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 an Engineering Manager to lead the Electronics team. This team owns the electronics architecture for terrestrial reactor controls, with a long-term path toward space reactor applications. You will be the technical authority for custom hardware—low-noise analog front ends, high-speed data conversion, DSP, and PCB design—from requirements capture through field operation.

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Build and manage a team of electrical engineers to develop and test the next generation of reactor control systems.

• Own the electronic architecture for terrestrial and, in the future, space reactors.

• Collaborate with other teams to define requirements for all electronic designs, environmental, noise, accuracy, input range, and reliability.

• Own acceptance and qual testing of all in-house PCB designs to verify design and build to requirements.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, or a related field.

• 5+ years managing electrical engineers.

• 5+ years designing mixed signals, analog, or RF hardware.

• Proven track record of PCB design. With considerations for low noise, matched impedance signal routing, conduction cooling, robust internal and external connectors. Preferably in Altium.

• Strong experience with industrial signal types, 4-20mA, RTD, Thermocouples, and Resolvers.

• Experience with high-speed, sensitive signals.

• Experience with digital communication interfaces such as SPI, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, and RS422.

• Experience with EMI/EMC best practices for design and strategies to mitigate exceeding levels.

Desired Qualifications & Skills:

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, physics, aerospace, mechanical, nuclear engineering, or a related field.

• Experience with rad hardened circuit design.

• Experience with control system design for nuclear applications.

• Experience with nuclear instrumentation and signals.

• Experience with applying IEEE-603 in electrical designs.

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 Benefits
Radiant 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: [email protected].

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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.