About Aalo Atomics
Aalo Atomics is pioneering a new era in clean energy with factory-fabricated microreactors designed to deliver affordable, scalable, and reliable nuclear power. Our mission is to make nuclear energy globally accessible, starting with the Aalo-1, a 10 MWe reactor leveraging cutting-edge safety, modularity, and efficiency. Based in Austin, TX, we're rapidly growing as we work to deploy the world's first fleet of advanced microreactors. Join us and help revolutionize energy for a sustainable future.
About the role
This role will be responsible for developing Aalo's early projects and establishing a long-term project development partnership strategy. This role ensures sites are identified, vetted, and advanced in line with regulatory, financial, and commercial considerations. The Project Development Lead will act as a cross-functional hub, coordinating efforts across commercial, finance, engineering, and regulatory teams, while engaging external developers, customers, and partners to progress siting and permitting activities.
What you'll do
Site Identification & Evaluation
- Lead the process of screening and ranking potential sites using Aalo's siting guidelines and regulatory frameworks.
- Engage with data center and power project developers, utilities, and customers to obtain and assess site information.
- Oversee development of key siting tools, permit matrices, and site-specific basis of design documents.
Regulatory & Environmental Coordination
- Coordinate with internal regulatory experts and external consultants to align project development with compliance requirements.
- Track exclusionary and discretionary criteria, and ensure risk factors are identified and mitigated early.
Project Development & Cross-functional Leadership
- Balance strategic planning of the long-term project pipeline with tactical execution of site selection, permitting, and customer engagement.
- Develop and manage project development timelines, milestones, and risk registers.
- Coordinate across finance, commercial, and regulatory teams to evaluate financeability and commercial viability of sites.
- Draft scopes of work and oversee third-party contractors and software supporting development efforts.
- Maintain and improve project development workflows, documentation, and reporting tools.
- Inform Aalo's strategy to partner with project development firms as commercial deployment scales.
Qualifications
Required
- 7+ years of experience in project development, infrastructure siting, energy projects, or related fields.
- Strong understanding of environmental and regulatory permitting processes (e.g., NRC, state/local permits for power projects).
- Proven ability to manage multi-stakeholder projects with regulatory, technical, and financial complexity.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to engage with internal teams, external developers, and customers.
- Strong organizational skills with experience developing schedules, risk registers, and permitting roadmaps.
- Willingness and ability to travel for site visits, stakeholder meetings, and regulatory reviews.
Preferred
- Background in nuclear, power generation projects, or other large-scale infrastructure development.
- Familiarity with nuclear site selection guidelines and technical criteria.
- Experience managing consultants and contractors in project development settings.
- Proficiency in project management tools and experience implementing new systems.
Physical
- This role primarily involves office-based work with travel as needed for site and stakeholder engagements.
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