Kairos Power

Mechanical Engineer

• Kairos Power: nuclear energy technology company commercializing the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) to enable clean energy transitions.
• Lead and manage designers delivering integrated systems, assemblies, and ASME pressure vessels in collaboration with engineering and pressure vessel specialists.
• Provide design leadership across mechanical development activities, ensuring alignment with system requirements, performance goals and integration milestones.
• Oversee the creation of detailed design deliverables and drawing packages, ensuring accuracy, manufacturability, and alignment with system-level objectives.
• Establish and maintain robust CAD standards, design workflows, and review processes to ensure consistency, traceability, and efficiency.
• Coordinate mechanical design efforts across engineering teams and external stakeholders, liaising with ASME pressure vessel group.
• Guide support execution with technical insight, particularly for layout integration and high-temperature componentry.
• Maintain a hands-on presence in design efforts to resolve technical or execution-related challenges.
• Oversee engineering design deliverables across multiple projects, ensuring timeliness, quality, and scope requirements are met.
• Mentor and develop designers and engineers, providing coaching, feedback, and career development support.
• Foster collaborative design environment across R&D, systems engineering, manufacturing, and other functional groups.
• Lead resolution of complex engineering challenges using system-thinking approaches.
• Perform additional responsibilities as assigned.

Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering Design

Systems Engineer

• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, lifecycle models (e.g. V-model), and requirements management, and best practices
• Proficiency in requirements definition, analysis, and traceability tools such as DOORS, Jama Connect
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead engineering teams, fostering collaboration across diverse technical disciplines.
• Skilled at translating complex technical challenges into actional engineering workstreams.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic engineering environment, managing shifting priorities and tight development timelines.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Passionate about promoting a culture of technical rigor, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work with highly collaborative team
• Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
• Prioritizes and ensures safety of one self and others
• Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge
• Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues

Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering Design

Systems Engineering Manager