Supply Reliability Engineer at Radiant in El Segundo, CA

Job description

About Radiant Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based startup building the world’s first mass-produced, portable nuclear microreactors. Rising energy demand is straining the U.S. grid and driving up utility costs, emissions, and interconnection backlogs. Radiant decentralizes energy, producing power close to where it’s used. Its first reactor, Kaleidos, is a factory-built, 1-megawatt, fail-safe microreactor that can be transported by land, sea, or air and runs up to 5 years without refueling. Deployed locally without a decade-long build or permitting fight, Kaleidos provides independent power for critical infrastructure like military bases, data centers, hospitals, and remote sites. Founded in 2020, Radiant is under contract to deliver power to the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and has pre-order agreements with Equinix, with deployments beginning in 2028. The Role We are looking for a Supply Reliability Engineer who builds supplier programs that prevent problems rather than react to them. You will own the development, qualification, and long-term reliability of Radiant's supply base — establishing the processes, standards, and supplier capabilities that ensure the right part arrives to the right standard, every time. While you'll have the technical depth to handle non-conformances and corrective actions when they arise, your primary focus is upstream: strengthening supplier processes, closing capability gaps, and building a supply base that performs without constant intervention. This is a builder role: the old house is being brought down, and a new foundation is being poured, but we still need to build the structure, apply the finishes, and pass final inspection. You'll own what exists, upgrade aging systems, and create something the industry hasn't seen before. We're not here to maintain the status quo in nuclear quality — we're here to raise the bar. Radiant is building a supplier reliability program from the ground up with a singular goal: the right part, to the right standard, on time, every time. If you want to do the most meaningful quality work of your career in an industry that hasn't been disrupted in decades, this is that opportunity. Responsibilities & Duties: • Own the supplier qualification and onboarding process end-to-end — pre-assessments, capability reviews, audit execution, and formal approval to the Approved Supplier List. • Own, refine, and expand quality program documentation — including quality clauses, commodity-specific requirements, and the Supplier Quality Manual — building on existing foundations and authoring what doesn't yet exist. • Develop supplier capability improvement plans — identify process gaps, partner with suppliers to close them, and track progress against defined milestones before problems reach Radiant's dock. • Own Radiant's procurement assurance and acceptance framework — define how items are accepted across supplier types and quality levels, establish purchase order quality requirements, certifications, material traceability, and compliance documentation, and build toward a graded, systematized model. • Execute supplier audits and manage supplier performance — audit against Radiant quality program requirements, author findings to closure, and drive structured improvement plans with emphasis on early intervention over lagging indicators. • Partner cross-functionally with design engineering, manufacturing, and materials teams to translate technical requirements into supplier-facing quality requirements before parts are ordered. • Process and disposition supplier quality issues when they arise — deviation requests, non-conformance reports, supplier corrective action requests, root cause analysis, and verification of corrective action effectiveness. Required Qualifications & Skills: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Materials Science, or a related technical field • 3–6 years of hands-on experience in supplier quality, supplier development, or supplier reliability engineering in a r