Platform & AI Pre-Engineer
at The Nuclear Company · 11-50 employees
Series A · $10.5M · Sep 2025
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Posted
- 5d ago
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at The Nuclear Company · 11-50 employees
Nuclearn builds an AI platform that automates critical operational workflows for nuclear power plants.
<p> </p> <p><strong data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">The Nuclear Company</strong> is the fastest growing AI tech-enabled startup in the nuclear and energy space, pioneering a fleet-scale approach to building the next generation of nuclear reactors. Through our design-once, build-many model, we're accelerating the deployment of safe, reliable, and affordable nuclear energy.</p> <p><strong>We operate with an AI-first mindset.</strong> Every employee is expected to leverage AI, technology, and the Nuclear Operating System (NOS) as integral components of their role to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work. We expect every team member to continuously identify opportunities to automate workflows, enhance decision-making, improve processes, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of NOS as a strategic operating capability that enables The Nuclear Company to scale with excellence.</p> <p><strong>We hire people who are driven by purpose, thrive in ambiguity, and are energized by building what has never been built before.</strong> Our team combines intellectual curiosity with high agency, embraces candid feedback and continuous learning, and holds themselves and others to exceptional standards. Our values—<strong>Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Scrappiness, and Tenacity</strong>—guide how we hire, collaborate, and make decisions every day. They are not words on a wall; they are the standard by which we operate. TRUST is the foundation of our safety culture, fostering intellectual honesty, accountability, and open communication, while our values challenge every team member to execute with urgency, humility, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to our mission.</p> <p><strong><span class="TextRun SCXW174644119 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW174644119 BCX0">About the role</span></span></strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The Nuclear Company is hiring a part-time NOS Platform Intern (10 hours per week during the academic year) to help deliver AI models and build AI/ML products on NOS. NOS is the software platform behind one of the largest nuclear buildouts in the United States. The role is remote and designed to fit around a full course load; academic performance comes first, and the schedule flexes around exams and coursework.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This is a hands-on internship reporting to the Senior Director, NOS. You will identify use cases for AI deployments across the platform, help train and deliver AI models against the highest-value ones, and turn what works into products TNC can use internally and offer commercially. You will also advise on hardware options for TNC.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You will work with TNC team members and nuclear industry domain experts to keep the solutions relevant to how plants are actually designed, built, and run. </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span class="EOP SCXW174644119 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">Responsibilities</span></strong></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Identify use cases. Work with NOS product and business teams to find and document where AI deployments add value across the platform and for customers, and rank them by value and feasibility.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Deliver AI models and products. Build, train, and evaluate AI models for the highest-value use cases, and help turn validated work into products for TNC's own use and for commercial offering.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Advise on hardware. Assess NVIDIA and other hardware options against NOS needs, cost, and the regulatory and security constraints of a nuclear environment.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335551500":0,"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="none">Work with domain experts. Partner with TNC team members and nuclear industry domain experts to pressure-test use cases and keep solutions relevant, credible, and worth productizing.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"134245417":false,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></li> </ul>