Location: US, Remote
Travel: 20%
Job Type: 1 Year Contract (40h/week)
Rate: $70–$75/hour
Project: Nuclear
About the Role
The Senior / Lead Nuclear Digital I&C IV&V Engineer will independently verify and validate nuclear instrumentation and control products, with emphasis on digital I&C systems, embedded control systems, software-controlled hardware, and system-level testing.
This is not a procedure-only testing role. The successful candidate must help define what needs to be tested, how it should be tested, what evidence is required, and when issues require escalation.
Minimum Qualifications / Must-Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.
- 8 years of engineering experience in verification, validation, testing, design, systems engineering, nuclear I&C, embedded systems, or related technical work.
- 5 years developing, executing, or evaluating test plans, test procedures, test reports, or requirements-based verification evidence.
- 3 years with digital I&C systems, embedded systems, software-controlled hardware, or complex control systems. FPGA/PLD-based system experience may count but is not required.
- Experience with requirements analysis and requirements-to-test traceability.
- Experience reviewing technical requirements, design documentation, interface documentation, or software/hardware release documentation.
- Ability to evaluate test results, identify anomalies, document issues, and support issue resolution.
- Strong technical writing skills and ability to work within formal quality and configuration control processes.
- Ability to work independently and know when to escalate technical, quality, schedule, or configuration concerns.
Required Technical Skills
Experience/capability in several of the following:
- Requirements-based testing and traceability
- IV&V test planning and execution
- Test procedures, test reports, and testware
- System, subsystem, component, FAT, and regression testing
- Digital I&C, embedded control systems, or software-controlled hardware
- Interface analysis and design reviews
- Change impact assessment and regression planning
- Anomaly identification and technical documentation
- Corrective action / condition adverse to quality support
- Configuration control of test systems, software versions, hardware configurations, SD cards, setups, and evidence packages
- Customer or stakeholder-facing technical communication
Key Responsibilities
- Perform independent V&V activities for nuclear digital I&C systems, including requirements analysis, design evaluation, interface analysis, traceability, and test evidence review.
- Develop V&V test requirements, plans, procedures, testware, reports, and traceability matrices.
- Perform, witness, and evaluate component, subsystem, system, FAT, and regression tests.
- Evaluate results, identify anomalies, document findings, and support technical issue resolution.
- Review applicable source code, FPGA/PLD, firmware, embedded software, release, and verification documentation.
- Participate in technical and baseline reviews of requirements, designs, interfaces, software releases, test plans, procedures, and reports.
- Perform or support FMEA, hazard analysis, cybersecurity vulnerability assessments, safety analysis, traceability analysis, and security analysis.
- Support simulators, test setups, test tools, automated test equipment, and manufacturing test procedures.
- Support customer-facing FAT execution and conditions adverse to quality through the corrective action program.
- Provide technical guidance, mentoring, and training to less experienced engineers and test personnel.
- Work cross-functionally with systems, software, hardware, FPGA, project management, quality, manufacturing, suppliers, customers, and lab teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years in nuclear I&C, digital controls, embedded systems, IV&V, FAT, or safety-related system testing.
- Experience with nuclear I&C products such as NUMAC, RCMS, RC&IS, PRNM, ATIP, DSS-CD, SRNM, WRNM, or similar platforms.
- Experience as a System IV&V Engineer, Responsible Engineer, Lead Test Engineer, or FAT lead.
- Experience with FPGA/PLD designs, embedded processors, PCB-level design, signal interfaces, power supplies, communication interfaces, or hardware troubleshooting.
- Experience with test simulators, automated test equipment, manufacturing test procedures, LabVIEW, ATS200, or similar platforms.
- Experience with IEEE, IEC, EPRI, NRC, CNSC, or other nuclear industry standards and guidance.
- Nuclear customer, nuclear plant modification, nuclear supplier, or nuclear site experience.
- Experience with corrective action programs, root cause evaluation, or condition adverse to quality documentation.
High-Value Differentiators
- Owns the full requirements-to-evidence verification lifecycle.
- Identifies weak, ambiguous, incomplete, or unverifiable requirements before testing.
- Understands how hardware, software, firmware, interfaces, simulators, and plant functions interact.
- Defines appropriate regression scope after design, software, firmware, or configuration changes.
- Supports customer-facing FATs and communicates technical issues clearly.
- Recognizes when a test result is technically questionable even if a procedure step appears to pass.
Pay: $70.00 - $75.00 per hour
Benefits:
Work Location: Remote
