Principal Digital Identity Engineer

The Nuclear Company is the fastest growing startup in the nuclear and energy space creating a never before seen fleet-scale approach to building nuclear reactors. Through its design-once, build-many approach and coalition building across communities, regulators, and financial stakeholders, The Nuclear Company is committed to delivering safe and reliable electricity at the lowest cost, while catalyzing the nuclear industry toward rapid development in America and globally.

About The Role

The Principal Digital Identity Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure and scalable digital identity systems across the enterprise. This role is critical in establishing the identity foundation for our workforce, third parties, and connected systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and cyber best practices. As the company scales, this engineer will play a key role in shaping our identity architecture, policy enforcement, and access governance programs.

Responsibilities

- Identity Architecture: Design and manage the overall enterprise identity and access management (IAM) architecture, including single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and federated identity systems.

- Lifecycle Management: Develop and maintain identity lifecycle processes for employees, contractors, and service accounts (joiner/mover/leaver), integrated with HRIS and IT systems.

- Access Governance & Controls: Implement role-based access control (RBAC), policy-based access controls (PBAC), and access reviews in alignment with security and compliance standards.

- Technology Implementation: Deploy and integrate IAM tools into cloud and on-prem environments.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with IT, Security, HR, Legal, and Engineering teams to implement identity strategies that support secure growth and regulatory compliance.

Experience

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field required; with preference for candidates with strong foundations in identity architecture, authentication protocols, and enterprise IT systems

- 8–10+ years of experience in identity and access management, infrastructure engineering, or security engineering with a primary focus on IAM

- Deep hands-on experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as Okta, Azure Active Directory, or similar tools

- Strong knowledge of SSO, MFA, RBAC, directory services, and authentication/authorization protocols such as SAML, OAuth2, and OIDC

- Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and scale identity lifecycle management processes integrated with HRIS, ITSM, and cloud infrastructure

- Experience operating in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, ITAR, NRC, DOE), with a strong understanding of access control and audit requirements

- Prior experience in energy, infrastructure, aerospace, or defense industries preferred

Benefits

- Competitive compensation packages

- 401k with company match

- Medical, dental, vision plans

- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays

Estimated Starting Salary Range

The estimated starting salary range for this role is $198,000 - $228,000 annually less applicable withholdings and deductions, paid on a semi-monthly basis. The actual salary offered may vary based on relevant factors as determined in the Company’s discretion, which may include experience, qualifications, tenure, skill set, availability of qualified candidates, geographic location, certifications held, and other criteria deemed pertinent to the particular role.

EEO Statement

The Nuclear Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an environment of inclusion in the workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination in all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, transfer, compensation, and termination.