Senior Engineer, Scientific Software and Developer Platform, Modeling and Simulation

Kairos Power, Remote or Alameda, CA +1

The role

Kairos Power is looking for a Senior Scientific Software and Developer Platform Engineer to work within a small software and infrastructure team that supports the needs of our design, research, and development organizations. This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will architect and build the scientific software, developer tooling, and delivery systems that nuclear engineers and computational scientists use to design and analyze nuclear power systems.

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Senior Engineer, Scientific Software and Developer Platform, Modeling and Simulation

Kairos Power, Remote or Alameda, CA +1

Posted pay

$141K–$165K

a year

Compared with similar jobs

This base pay is below the median for senior infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs that are remote in the US.

Median: $190K a year
Other jobs in the group: 403

We compare the middle of each posted range. This is base pay as posted. The group does not include this job.

Location: Remote or Alameda, CA +1
Work type: Remote
Level: Senior
Experience: 5+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
AWS
GCP
Docker
C++
Bash
Linux
Posted: 28 days ago
Last check: 8 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE, Inference & ML systems

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With posted pay: 62%
Median posted base: $140K–$165K

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The role

What you need

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, physics, mathematics, computational science, or a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and practical experience.
5+ years of relevant software engineering experience, including experience developing scientific, engineering, computational, or other technically complex software.
Strong and demonstrable experience developing scientific or engineering software, with depth in both Python and C++.
Experience implementing computational modeling methods, numerical methods, or comparable quantitative algorithms.
Demonstrated software architecture experience, including the ability to decompose a problem, define interfaces, and reason about maintainability, performance, and long-term cost.
Experience with automated testing, including unit and integration testing with frameworks such as PyTest or GoogleTest.
Proficiency with Git, Linux, Bash, and SSH.
Experience mentoring engineers and conducting design and code review, together with a demonstrated ability to accept and apply design feedback.
A track record of building software that other engineers can operate, extend, and maintain, supported by clear documentation and deliberate knowledge transfer.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Proficiency with Git, Linux, Bash, and SSH.
Strong command of software design fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
Ability to systematically diagnose complex software, build, dependency, environment, and runtime issues and identify root causes.
Ability to design and maintain reproducible software build, test, packaging, and delivery processes.
Ability to apply software quality assurance principles, including traceability, testing, documentation, and controlled delivery, appropriate to the software being developed.
Ability to communicate effectively with nuclear engineers, computational scientists, and other non-software specialists, and to translate their requirements into working software.
Ability to work with a highly collaborative team.
Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself and others.
Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge.
Ability to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges, and issues, where each improvement is tied to a measurable engineering need such as safety, reliability, performance, usability, or maintainability.
Ability to exercise architectural judgment and to favor the simplest design that satisfies the requirement.
Ability to give direct technical feedback, to receive it, and to change course when a review identifies a better approach.
Ability to explain technical tradeoffs to engineers and scientists who are not software specialists.
Ability to take operational ownership of software through its full lifecycle, including testing, documentation, support, and retirement.

Additional Requirements

Occasionally requires working weekends.
Occasionally requires schedule flexibility.
Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines.

The salary range for this position is $140,611 to $165,425 for employees working onsite at our Alameda, CA headquarters. The range provided in this job posting represents the typical range or starting rate of candidates hired in California. Factors that maybe used to determine your actual salary 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.

Senior Engineer, Scientific Software and Developer Platform, Modeling and Simulation

The role

Senior Engineer, Scientific Software and Developer Platform, Modeling and Simulation

The role

What you need

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Additional Requirements

Nice to have

Scientific and engineering software

Build, packaging, and artifact delivery

Software quality assurance and controlled delivery

Scientific computing platform

Engineering standards and mentorship

Physical Conditions

Environmental Conditions

Safety and PPE

Travel

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