Licensing & Regulatory Affairs Director

Xcimer Energy leverages decades of research on Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) combined with groundbreaking new laser architecture. Our mission is to deploy fusion power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. Xcimer has assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by leading investors, Xcimer is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change. Join us in powering a better world with inertial fusion!

This is a full-time, onsite role based at our headquarters in Denver, CO.

As the Director, Licensing & Regulatory Affairs, you will apply your skills to build and lead the Operations department that secures and maintains every license, permit, and regulatory approval Xcimer needs to site, build, and operate its facilities. You will own regulatory strategy, agency relationships, and the end-to-end management of license and permit applications, and you will run the compliance obligations system that keeps Xcimer in good standing once approvals are granted. You will partner closely with Engineering, which owns the technical and safety analyses that underpin our applications; your team makes sure that work becomes complete, on-time, well-received submittals and durable regulatory commitments. We are looking for our leaders to apply their expertise, problem solving skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact the future of energy! 

Responsibilities

• Regulatory strategy: Develop, own and execute Xcimer’s licensing and permitting strategy for current and future facilities, including pathway selection across the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) byproduct-material framework and Agreement State programs, jointly with Engineering leadership. 

• Agency relationships: Serve as Xcimer’s primary point of contact with the NRC, Agreement State radiation control offices, federal and state environmental agencies, and local permitting and building authorities; lead pre-application meetings and ongoing regulator engagement. 

• Application program management: Plan, schedule, budget, and manage license and permit applications from pre-application through approval: define submittal content and structure, assign contributors, integrate technical inputs from Engineering, control document versions, and coordinate responses to requests for additional information (RAIs). 

• Permit inventory and calendar: Own the enterprise inventory of required licenses and permits (radioactive materials, environmental, air, water, land use, building, and others) with lead times, dependencies, and renewal dates, and integrate it into facility and program schedules.