Software Engineer, Data Platform

General Matter, Inc. is an American nuclear energy company based in California that is focused on developing domestic nuclear energy solutions. The company aims to harness nuclear technology to increase national energy prosperity, reduce dependence on foreign energy sources, and support the expansion of American capabilities in the energy sector. Their work centers on making nuclear energy more accessible and practical by advancing technologies that can be developed and deployed within the United States. General Matter's mission is rooted in the belief that nuclear power represents a critical pathway toward a cleaner, more energy-independent future. By turning domestic nuclear potential into operational reality, the company positions itself at the intersection of national security, economic growth, and climate-conscious energy production. Their approach emphasizes building nuclear energy infrastructure that is homegrown rather than reliant on foreign supply chains or expertise. The company brings together leaders from nuclear engineering, technology, government, and finance, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to solving the complex challenges of modern nuclear energy development. As a startup operating in the green and climate technology sector, General Matter represents a new wave of private investment in nuclear energy as a viable and scalable low-carbon power source for the United States.

About the Company

General Matter enriches uranium.

We are designing, building, and operating the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services, here in the US.  

In the process, we are restoring America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel to power AI, advanced manufacturing and critical industries our country relies on to remain competitive. 

Fuel drives the cost of advanced reactor electricity production, and enrichment drives the cost of the fuel that advanced reactors consume.  Reliable, low-cost enrichment is the catalyst for the nuclear Renaissance now under way.

Our mission is to make nuclear not only the cleanest and safest source of baseload power, but also the most affordable.  We believe abundant nuclear energy will lead to a post-scarcity society. 

We were incubated inside Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by over a dozen of the world's top venture capital firms.  

Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production.  

We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency. 

Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable. 

About This Role

We are seeking a Data Platform Software Engineer to design and implement the data acquisition, storage, and streaming backbone for test stands and production systems. This role sits at the intersection of industrial data systems and high-performance backend engineering, and is responsible for building reliable, scalable data pipelines that ingest high-throughput, high-channel-count sensor telemetry without loss and serve it to visualization and analytics layers. The successful candidate will play a central role in defining the architecture, schema design, and operational reliability of mission-critical data infrastructure. 

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-throughput data pipelines for kHz-class, high-channel-count sensor telemetry across test and production environments. 
• Design and operate time-series storage and industrial data historians for long-term retention, query performance, and schema evolution. 
• Build ingestion and streaming services with a focus on buffering, backpressure, idempotency, and no silent data loss. 
• Define and champion modern software engineering practices, data architecture, schema standards, testing strategies, and operational best practices across the data platform. 
• Work closely with controls, test automation, and visualization teams to feed downstream analytics and live dashboards directly. 
• Lead debugging, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements across the full ingestion-to-storage stack. 

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field. 
• 5+ years of experience building data pipelines, streaming systems, or backend data infrastructure. 
• Strong, production-level experience in Python and SQL. 
• Hands-on experience with high-throughput data ingestion and time-series or historian storage, with a strong understanding of distributed systems and data reliability. 
• Experience with high-reliability, on-premise, 24/7 deployments in safety-critical environments. 

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with time-series databases (e.g., InfluxDB, TimescaleDB), in-memory data stores (e.g., Redis), and OT/industrial data historians. 
• Experience with streaming and pub/sub middleware (e.g., MQTT, DDS, OPC-UA, Kafka). 
• Experience with high-channel-count sensor data and reliability engineering for ingestion. 
• Background in observability, infrastructure-as-code, and feeding visualization layers (e.g., Grafana). 
• Background in high-reliability or data-intensive environments (e.g., industrial automation, aerospace, energy, finance/trading, telecom, scientific research). 
• Demonstrated technical leadership in setting engineering standards, and building and mentoring high-performance engineering teams. 

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.

Equal Opportunity Employer

General Matter is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with General Matter is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $125,000–$220,000 annually. 

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. Please note that the stated salary range is an estimate and may be adjusted based on market conditions, business needs, or other factors. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.