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ORAU

Operates ORISE program for DOE

Electrical Engineer

Full-TimeDeadline 8/18/27
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Knoxville, TN, USA
In PersonApproximately 25% travel is required. Relocation is available.
Electrical EngineeringControls & Automation Engineering
No H1B Sponsorship
US Citizenship Required

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field is required.
  • Approximately 5+ years of engineering experience are required.
  • Hands-on experience with instrumentation, controls, electrical systems, circuits, hardware, or data acquisition is required.
  • Familiarity with oscilloscopes, multimeters, generators, spectrum or network analyzers, and data acquisition systems is required.
  • The candidate must be able to perform analytical and problem-solving work.
  • The candidate must communicate effectively and produce highly accurate documentation.
  • The candidate must follow structured engineering and quality assurance procedures.
  • The candidate must be willing to travel approximately 25%.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.
Responsibilities
  • Perform hands-on testing and troubleshooting of instrumentation and control systems used in nuclear power plants.
  • Support laboratory testing, field measurements, and electrical data acquisition.
  • Prepare equipment for plant trips, ensuring accurate configuration and documentation.
  • Assist with signal measurements, equipment setup, and structured engineering evaluations.
  • Contribute to troubleshooting when equipment or test results do not meet expected criteria.
  • Assist in hardware development, prototype assembly, and equipment refinement.
  • Draft technical reports, trip reports, and other engineering documentation.
  • Follow strict quality assurance and engineering workflow requirements.
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams and represent AMS professionally on-site.
Desired Qualifications
  • Coursework or experience in signal processing, circuits, and electrical measurements.
  • Coursework or experience in hardware development.
  • Experience in nuclear, aerospace, defense, automotive, or similar regulated environments.
  • Experience with hardware troubleshooting, repair, or prototype assembly.
  • Familiarity with electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference standards, including MIL-STD-461 and IEC 61000.
  • Experience writing structured engineering documentation.

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ORAU

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ORAU is a nonprofit federal contractor and a network of 150+ member universities that tackles national needs in science, health, and education. It forms specialized project teams, uses lab capabilities, and administers the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) to provide internships, fellowships, research opportunities, and services for clients under government contracts. Its work spans scientific assessment, health and environmental solutions, emergency preparedness, workforce development, and university partnerships, delivered through partnerships and program administration rather than a single product. Its distinct position comes from its university-led network and its management of ORISE, bridging academia, government, and industry to support public health, environmental safety, and STEM workforce development through federal contracts and collaborations.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Founded

1946

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What believers are saying

  • DOE extended ORISE through September 30, 2026, preserving near-term revenue visibility.
  • DOE launched ORISE-26 competition September 16, 2026, creating a fresh rebid opportunity.
  • ORAU's Rural Health RIC workshop on August 6, 2026, broadened member engagement.

What critics are saying

  • DOE's ORISE rebid due October 7, 2026 threatens ORAU's largest contract.
  • A 2025 federal shutdown and budget shocks already forced restructures and uncertainty.
  • Losing ORISE to another DOE bidder would gut ORAU's nonprofit model.

What makes ORAU unique

  • ORAU runs DOE's ORISE, spanning STEM pipeline, peer review, and radiation emergency response.
  • Its 172-member consortium added 13 institutions on March 17, 2026.
  • REAC/TS gives ORAU unique 24/7 radiation medical response credibility since 1976.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Disability Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Remote Work Options
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Holidays
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Hybrid Work Options

Company News

ORAU
Oct 14th, 2026
Jennifer West promoted to chief audit officer and director of ORAU audit services.

Jennifer West promoted to chief audit officer and director of ORAU audit services. October 14, 2026 ORAU has promoted Jennifer West to chief audit officer and director of ORAU audit services, effective Oct. 10. West brings more than 30 years of professional experience to the role, including 27 years as a federal government contractor managing and conducting audits, assessments and investigations. She has been with ORAU since 2014. In her new role, West will oversee ORAU's audit function and report to both the ORAU President and CEO Meghan Millwood as well as the ORAU Finance and Audit Committee. "Jennifer has brought extensive experience and strong leadership to the audit services team during a critical period," said Millwood. "Her deep institutional knowledge and commitment to integrity have earned the confidence of colleagues across the organization. We are pleased to officially appoint her to this important leadership role." West earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree with a major in accounting from East Tennessee State University. She is a Certified Internal Auditor and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

ORAU
Aug 12th, 2026
ORAU Rural Health Research Innovation Cluster Workshop aims to bridge the rural health gap.

ORAU Rural Health Research Innovation Cluster Workshop aims to bridge the rural health gap. For many Americans, access to quality health care depends on something as simple and as significant as geography. A hospital may be hours away. A specialist may only visit a community a few days each month. A shortage of health care workers can mean longer wait times, fewer services and difficult choices for families already facing challenges. But across rural communities, researchers, health care leaders, policymakers and innovators are working to change that reality. To help find solutions to the challenges affecting rural communities across the United States, ORAU convened its first-ever Rural Health Research Innovation Cluster (RIC) Workshop on Aug. 6, 2026. Cluster is an interesting word, right? In this case, think of a cluster as a grouping of like-minded people and educational institutions coalescing around a specific topic or idea. The workshop was designed around a simple idea: solving rural health challenges requires collaboration. It provided a space where more than 100 people-representatives from 30 member institutions of ORAU's University Consortium-shared ideas, sparked collaborations, began building partnerships and explored solutions that have the potential to improve health outcomes. Discussion and interactive sessions centered on four strategic priority areas: workforce development and retention, women's health, access to care, and preparedness and resilience. Workshop participants spent the morning individually identifying what they think are important issues and potential solutions, then worked in small groups during the afternoon to find areas of common interest and consensus around the idea of what could be accomplished a one-million-dollar grant. By bringing together experts from different disciplines and connecting researchers with communities, the RIC has the potential to identify new approaches to some of the most complex health issues facing rural America. It's important to note that the workshop is the very first step in the work of ORAU's Rural Health RIC, said Casey Thomas, ORAU strategic partnerships and engagement manager. Because ORAU boasts an extensive and engaged University Consortium, it was important to begin the process with members of our elite network of academic institutions. "Academic institutions play an important role in rural health innovation by serving as research partners, workforce development pipelines, innovation hubs, sources of technical expertise, and connectors between communities and resources," Thomas said. Universities can help identify emerging challenges, evaluate interventions and train the next generation of health professionals. Still, Thomas said there was an incredible outpouring of interest from community organizations, health care providers, industry partners and other stakeholders who want to get involved in the RIC's work. Thomas said, based on the input and data collected during the workshop, next steps could include additional workshops and the development of workgroups and project teams. "Stay tuned," she said. "There is so much more to come." Connecting the people closest to the challenges. One in five Americans lives in a rural community, and rural communities often face overlapping issues, including shortages of health care professionals, limited access to specialty services, geographic isolation, transportation challenges, aging infrastructure, economic barriers, and increasing demand for chronic disease management and preventive care. "These challenges are shaped by the unique needs of individual communities," said Brenda Blunt, ORAU senior director of public health solutions. "Rural health challenges are interconnected and cannot be addressed through a single intervention, which means there is no one-size-fits-all solution to these challenges." The complexity of rural health requires collaboration across disciplines, but experts working on rural health challenges often feel a sense of isolation because they don't know anyone else working on these issues. Such was the case of Bonnie Spring, Ph.D., Krafft Professor of Behavioral and Social Medicine and director of the Blue Cross Center for Rural Health Research and Policy at Florida State University. Spring said she has spent much of her career studying chronic disease risk behaviors in urban settings. Since taking on the role as director of the Blue Cross Center at FSU, Spring said she has been fascinated by and drawn to the unique challenges of rural health, particularly because of the lack of research and funding focused on these challenges. However, Spring felt like an island to herself. "I am completely isolated, I don't know other people who do work in that area, so this (the Rural Health RIC workshop) was a chance to find a community and learn what other people are doing, she said. Rather than working in isolation, RIC participants created connections between educational institutions that may approach rural health from different perspectives but share the same goal. The result is a stronger network focused on turning research into action. Networking and finding opportunities to collaborate was a critical takeaway from the workshop for Megan Undeberg, Ph.D., professor and assistant dean of Rural Health in the Department of Pharmacotherapy at Washington State University. "The best part of the day was seeing that lots of like-minded people exist across the United States," said Undeberg, who was in a breakout group on workforce recruitment and retention. "There were 17 or 18 people, and we all are thinking along the same lines and all having common goals. Now there's this group of people who can put our heads together to find funding, find shared opportunities and find ways to grow recruitment and retention of our rural health providers." Preparing for the future of rural health. The future of rural health will require creativity, partnership and a willingness to rethink traditional approaches. The Rural Health RIC Workshop represents an important first step toward building that future by creating a network where ideas can grow, partnerships can develop and research can move beyond the page and into communities. At its core, ORAU's Rural Health RIC is about connection - researchers with communities, ideas with opportunities, innovation with impact. Improving rural health is not just about addressing today's challenges, it's about building a stronger, more connected health care future for generations to come.

ORAU
Jun 24th, 2026
ORAU receives two National Safety Council awards for its commitment to occupational safety.

ORAU receives two National Safety Council awards for its commitment to occupational safety. June 24, 2026 ORAU has been recognized with two awards for achievement in occupational safety from the National Safety Council (NSC): the Occupational Excellence Achievement Award and the Six Million Work Hours Award. The Occupational Excellence Achievement Award is given to companies that record exceptional safety numbers during the previous calendar year. To qualify for this award, ORAU experienced zero fatalities during the previous calendar year, and our lost-workday case incident rate was equal to or less than 50% of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) rate for our industry, as classified by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code. ORAU's lost-workday case incident rate is 0.00 compared to the BLS industry average rate of 1.2. All data submitted to the NSC is self-reported and verified. ORAU received the Six Million Work Hours Award for continued work without the occurrence of an occupational injury or illness involving days away from work for at least six million consecutive work hours. The six-million-hour record was recorded between June 28, 2022, and March 31, 2026. Eligibility is based on self-reported data submitted by the participating workplace in accordance with Occupational Safety and Health Administration standards. "We take great pride in our strong workplace safety record," said James Buckner, ORAU director of Environment, Safety and Health. "Being recognized with these awards serves as a testament to the outstanding teamwork, proactive communication, and commitment to safety that exists across every department in our company."

ORAU
Jun 23rd, 2026
ORAU named winner of 2026 EPEAT Award.

ORAU named winner of 2026 EPEAT Award. Global Electronics Council recognition highlights sustainable purchasing practices June 23, 2026 ORAU has been recognized as a 2026 EPEAT Sustainable Purchaser Award winner. The EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) award celebrates leaders in sustainable electronics procurement. The award comes from the Global Electronics Council (GEC), the non-profit organization that manages the EPEAT ecolabel. ORAU has received EPEAT recognition every year since the award's inception in 2015. ORAU was among the organizations honored for their commitment to purchasing EPEAT-registered products in four categories: computers and displays, imaging equipment, mobile phones, and servers. The GEC awards one star for each category. The GEC works with manufacturers, procurement professionals, electronics recyclers, government entities, trade associations and environmental advocacy groups to evaluate and endorse environmentally responsible products. The EPEAT registry tool provides companies with a simplified way to purchase environmentally trustworthy electronics and to quantify their energy consumption reduction. "Receiving the EPEAT award reflects ORAU's ongoing commitment to sustainable business practices and purchasing processes, and the achievement of goals to reduce electrical consumption and minimize waste and toxic substances released into the environment," said Bridget Jones, ORAU procurement analyst. ORAU's Information Technology Services (ITS) Department is devoted to technology and electronic product support, Jones said, adding that the ITS team works diligently to research and develop IT purchasing standards where the products meet customer and business needs as well as support ORAU's energy efficiency and green purchasing goals. "ORAU is dedicated to establishing and maintaining the highest standards of sustainable purchasing across all functional areas, including ITS, Facilities, Procurement, and other business units, all working together to ensure compliance and support of purchasing EPEAT registered IT products and equipment," Jones said "As a contractor we continue to strive to be excellent stewards of government resources and purchasing dollars, and we are intentional in our sustainable electronics purchasing."

Teknovation.biz
Jun 1st, 2026
Stories of technology, innovation, & entrepreneurship in the Southeast.

Stories of technology, innovation, & entrepreneurship in the Southeast. Nuclear in Oak Ridge, quantum in Chattanooga: Tennessee's two-front pitch at the TVC Summit. The Tennessee Valley Corridor was organized in 1995 with a vision to link the "Oak Ridge Corridor" to the Department of Energy, Tennessee Valley Authority and the University of Tennessee to showcase the wealth of brainpower in the mid-East Tennessee region. For a conference that attracts representatives from a footprint of 13 congressional districts in Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina, the 2026 Tennessee Valley Corridor (TVC) Summit focused largely on two arenas where Tennessee is becoming a heavy hitter: advanced energy, anchored by nuclear work in Oak Ridge, and advanced computing, anchored by quantum work in Chattanooga. A sit-down with the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy. To lead the conversation around Tennessee's role in the national energy strategy, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy James P. Danly attended the conference's first day. Teknovation sat down with the Deputy Secretary to learn how the Department of Energy (DOE) is executing its Genesis Mission, and how Oak Ridge is playing a core role in it. He was effusive about Tennessee, ORNL, and the public support for DOE's missions in East Tennessee, and his comments bore that out. "Oak Ridge National Laboratory is one of the jewels of the national lab system. It has some of the fastest computing power in the DOE footprint, it has an extraordinary wealth of human capital, physicists, and engineers, and it also has an extremely appreciative population who loves Oak Ridge and is proud of the legacy for the United States," Danly said. The Genesis Mission was first announced in November 2025 at the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council (TAEBC) Opportunities in Energy event by the DOE Chief of Staff, Carl Coe. It was presented as a plan to connect and leverage the assets of all 17 U.S. National Labs to build one unified scientific platform for accelerated discovery. The mission, as detailed by the DOE, also aims to connect academia and private industry to help meet that strategic vision. "We're trying to include as many people as possible, so that we can achieve our goals as quickly as we can," Danly said. It's only been a few months since the rollout of that national objective; however, Danly said early data and collaborations have given him hope for the ambitious project. To build a unified platform, the DOE will need new data centers, more nuclear power and advanced energy to power them, and a more robust onshore supply chain. Tennessee is focused on the nuclear pipeline. "We have been trying not just to get prototypes like small modular reactors (SMRs) to market, but also ensure that the entire ecosystem, from fuel fabrication and processing all the way to ultimate disposition, is made available. It requires different steps in the supply chain, all of which we're trying to support simultaneously," he explained. "We can't do this without private enterprise and academia being part of it." Academia on the research side, yes. But also on the talent and workforce pipeline side of the equation. The DOE is trusting that universities can produce viable candidates to fill the highly technical roles of the future. At the TVC Summit, Randy Boyd, president of the University of Tennessee System, participated in a workforce panel alongside university leaders from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Chattanooga State Community College, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Vanderbilt University, and Tennessee Tech University to discuss how nuclear workforce development is a shared, multi-state priority. And on the private sector side, the TVC hosted a panel conversation with representatives from BWXT, TRISO-X, and Bechtel, all companies that are building the nuclear technologies of the future. Quantum conversations. Another field whose capabilities aren't fully realized is quantum computing. Chattanooga has leaned into its emerging identity as a quantum hub through organizations like the Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative (CQC), led by Charlie Brock. Between the work at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's Quantum Center and the quantum network run by EPB, Chattanooga's municipal utility, which the company bills as the first industry-led, commercially available quantum network in the U.S., the summit framed quantum as another field where the Southeast, and Tennessee specifically, can compete. In addition to nuclear and quantum, the summit also featured conversations about national security and space. The TVC, founded in 1995 and headquartered in Knoxville, positions itself as a coalition linking the Tennessee Valley's federal laboratories, universities, utilities, and the private sector. Its summit has become one of the more substantive gatherings for anyone tracking the intersection of federal R&D investment, energy policy, and regional economic development in the South. Like what you've read?