Systems Engineering Manager
Kairos Power
SaltStack
Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering Design
Kairos Power
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $201,300 - $251,600 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
SaltStack
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in either mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering technology, or related discipline. Master’s degree or PE license preferred.
- 10+ years of experience in mechanical design, including significant involvement with ASME pressure vessel design.
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience managing cross-functional and multi-disciplinary design teams.
- Demonstrated success delivering mechanical designs from concept through to fabrication and testing.
