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# Associate General Counsel at Blue Energy

- **Company:** Blue Energy
- **Location:** Chevy Chase, MD
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-07-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blue-energy/30524c90-d59b-4fdb-b9d0-67247230b4eb

## Job description

Company Overview Blue Energy is transforming how nuclear power gets built. Instead of constructing each plant on-site from scratch - a process that takes 10-15 years and is too expensive and unpredictable to finance - we build our plants like ships: in a factory, on an assembly line, then transport and assemble them at the site. This cuts costs by over 60% and brings plants online in just three years. We also pair natural gas with nuclear at our sites, so customers can start receiving power from gas turbines right away and then switch over to clean nuclear power once it comes online - getting energy to the grid faster while nuclear is being built. Our mission is to make nuclear energy abundant, affordable, and repeatable at global scale. We use proven, already-approved reactor designs and work with existing nuclear and industrial sites, giving us a faster path to regulatory approval. By manufacturing this way, we put nuclear power on the same cost-reduction curve that has made wind, solar, and batteries cheaper every year.

## Role Summary

Blue Energy is seeking an Associate General Counsel to provide legal support on a wide array of transactional matters, including procurement, commercial and corporate matters. The Associate General Counsel will report to the Deputy General Counsel and will work collaboratively with Blue Energy’s business teams, outside counsel and Blue Energy’s other outside stakeholders such as customers, suppliers and investors. This role is ideal for a proactive legal professional who thrives in a collaborative commercial environment and enjoys working across multiple facets of commercial and corporate law, project finance, and nuclear energy development.

## Key Responsibilities

- Act as a trusted legal advisor to leadership, offering strategic insights on commercial contracts, project-specific considerations, and risk mitigation strategies
- Draft, review and negotiate supply and purchase contracts in support of the engineering, construction and procurement teams.
- General corporate and transactional legal support:
- Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs
- Handle entity formations, including drafting formation documents and resolutions
- Assist with corporate governance and contractual compliance
- Ensure bankability of all project development documents, including site control documents, utility agreements and offtake.
- File, track and update a variety of business and legal templates and documents.
- Understand the nature of the business in order to provide value-added service and enhance working relationships.
- Advise on legal and regulatory/export control issues.
- Coordinate with intellectual property team on intellectual property issues.
- Manage outside counsel.

## Qualifications

- Minimum of 4+ years' relevant experience, including top law firm experience, preferably in project finance, project development and/or energy sectors; experience in-house and/or the nuclear sector is a plus.
- Strong contract and commercial law experience, including project finance transactions.
- Commercial mindset. Ability to balance business goals with legal and regulatory compliance objectives efficiently.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Willingness to learn regulatory matters, including export control, in the nuclear context.
- Ability to manage outside counsel effectively and efficiently.
- Demonstrated creativity in legal approaches to complex problems and issues that balance business needs and legal risks.
- History of integrity, sound legal and business judgment and an ability to communicate effectively.
- J.D. required with license to practice in at least one state
- The successful candidate will have a high degree of integrity, communicate openly and display respect, be trustworthy and have a desire to foster teamwork.

We look forward to your application and helping foster an era of safe, clean, affordable, and abundant energy. Blue Energy is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Blue Energy now or in the future.

## About Blue Energy

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Blue Energy designs and manufactures modular nuclear power plants using mature light water reactor technology, aiming to deliver scalable, reliable, and affordable clean energy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (startup stage; funding rounds not disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: United States (specific city not publicly disclosed)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Jake Jurewicz (CEO & Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Nuclear energy (small modular reactors / advanced nuclear)
- **Target customers**: Utilities, data center operators, industrial off-takers (B2B, large-scale)
- **Mission statement**: “Delivering abundant, reliable, and affordable energy to accelerate a safe and lasting era of progress.”

## Products & Services
- **Blue Energy Modular Nuclear Plant**: A small modular reactor (SMR) design using light water reactors with passive safety features. The plant is prefabricated at shipyards or fab yards, allowing fixed-price contracting and a claimed 3-year timeline to energize the turbine hall with gas (nuclear island follows later). The complete plant is designed for project finance. Blue Energy finances, builds, owns, and operates the plants, selling power through long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; targeting $5,000/kW capital cost and a 3-year build time for initial power generation.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. The NRC (U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission) is engaged in pre‑application activities (Docket 99902137).
- **Growth Signals**: Active regulatory engagement with the NRC (pre‑application since March 2025); growing team with open roles in engineering, project development, and licensing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modular manufacturing**: Plants are built in existing fab yards and shipyards, reducing on-site construction risk and cost.
- **Fixed-price contracting**: De-risks construction for customers by guaranteeing cost and schedule.
- **Simplified safety**: Reactor building submerged in a water pool provides passive cooling and reduces need for nuclear‑grade components.
- **Hybrid energization timeline**: Turbine hall can be powered by natural gas in ~3 years while the nuclear island is licensed and installed, giving off-takers early power and revenue certainty.
- **Turn-key model**: No upfront capital from customers; Blue Energy owns and operates the plant.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling new nuclear megawatts as fast as possible by working with regulators (NRC) and securing offtake agreements for firm, dispatchable baseload power.
- Targeting accelerating load growth from data centers and heavy industry.
- Building a multi‑disciplinary team of nuclear experts, engineers, and energy operators.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “pragmatic and results‑oriented” with a singular focus on deploying nuclear power this decade. Team includes former NRC leaders, energy executives, and engineers from MIT and Exelon.
- **Work environment**: Not explicitly stated as remote/hybrid; roles appear location‑dependent (likely office/hybrid in the US).
- **Opportunity**: Chance to work on one of the few advanced nuclear designs currently engaged with the NRC, with a clear path to construction.
- **Open roles** (as of mid‑2025): Director of Project Development, Lead Electrical & I&C Engineer, Senior Licensing Engineer, Lead Nuclear and Fuels Engineer, and others.

## Sources
1. [blueenergy.co](https://www.blueenergy.co/)
2. [blueenergy.co/about](https://blueenergy.co/about/)
3. [blueenergy.co/careers](https://blueenergy.co/careers/)
4. [blueenergy.co/team](https://blueenergy.co/team/)
5. [nrc.gov – Blue Energy pre-application](https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-working-with/pre-application-activities/blue-energy)

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