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# Construction Quality Control/Assurance Specialist at General Matter

- **Company:** General Matter
- **Location:** Richland, WA
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalmatter/jobs/5382063008

## Job description

## About the Company

General Matter is enriching uranium in America.

Our goal is to design, build, and operate the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services in the United States.

Our mission is to restore America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel—fuel that will power AI, advanced manufacturing, critical industries, and the next generation of nuclear reactors.

Ultimately, our work will help power national ambitions and enable a high-energy society.

We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by top-tier investors. 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

The Construction Quality Control/Assurance (QC/QA) Specialist role works closely with members of project management, engineering, project controls and procurement departments from pre-construction through turnover to operations. The QC/QA Specialist documents and manages quality of all construction scopes for a project in accordance with NQA-1 or similar rigorous quality assurance requirements.  Specifically, these tasks include coordination with subcontractors, resolving day-to-day quality issues, performing day-to-day inspections to ensure compliance with plans, procedures and specifications. This role works directly with a Site Superintendent and Construction Manager under the Quality Manager.

Responsibilities:

- Identifying risks and discrepancies at the project site during daily site walks. Documents findings, evaluations and inspections using company procedures.
- Provides oversight surveillance of contractors to ensure they follow and document quality affecting activities per company procedures.
- Performs system verifications on completed systems to assure correct installation per contract design specifications. Verifies that safety-classified structures, systems, and components (SSCs) meet design requirements and applicable codes, with particular attention to seismic qualification, safety function verification, and quality level designation.
- Maintains knowledge of Company’s values and strategic plan.
- Tracks nonconformances, condition reports and corrective actions through closure and aids in trending and assessing project impacts.
- Engages in both quality assurance and quality control tasks as needed.
- Engages with project teams proactively to prevent risks to quality implementation.
- Perform additional assignments per management's direction.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree or Engineering Technologist Diploma preferred.
- 5+ years of field construction experience supervising QA/QC inspections for large capital projects may be used in lieu of education.
- Experience with quality requirements for the installation and fabrication of process piping systems per or B31.3.
- Experience performing leak tests per ASME B31.3.
- Valid driver's license required.
- Ability to obtain and maintain DOE Q clearance or site-specific security clearance required.
- Experience or training in nuclear construction industry compliance required. Familiarity with NQA-1, 10 CFR 830 Subpart A, DOE O 414.1D, and applicable nuclear codes and standards (ASME NQA-1, ASME B31.1, B31.3 and Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code Section as applicable).
- Proven subject matter expert in testing, inspection processes and process piping construction procedures. Demonstrated experience with nonconformance reporting, root cause analysis, corrective action programs, and trending analysis in accordance with NQA-1 Requirement 16.
- Leadership and mentoring ability and ownership.
- Strong organization and communication skills.
- Willingness and ability to learn and grow in inspection, monitoring, technical writing and documentation.

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 $115,000 to $160,000 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.

## About General Matter

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Nuclear energy – uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel supply chain
- **Target customers**: Nuclear power plant operators (civilian reactors, small modular reactors, microreactors), data center operators, industrial manufacturers, and government/defense entities
- **Mission**: “Restore US leadership in nuclear fuel” and “make the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable” [generalmatter.com/mission](https://generalmatter.com/mission/)

## Products & Services
- **Low Enriched Uranium (LEU)**: Enrichment of uranium to 3-5% U-235 for existing US civilian reactors (supplying ~20% of US grid power)
- **High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU)**: Enrichment to 5-20% U-235 for next-generation small modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors
- **Enrichment as a Service**: Novel, scalable, cost-competitive enrichment technology to fill the critical gap in the US nuclear fuel cycle (conversion → enrichment → deconversion/fabrication)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Currently hiring for 64+ roles across engineering, construction, legal, and operations; actively building enrichment capacity
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Described as backed by “institutions” and “generational companies” – specific names not publicly available [generalmatter.com/careers](https://generalmatter.com/careers/)
- **Growth Signals**: Aggressive hiring across multiple disciplines; establishing a physical presence in Los Angeles (HQ) and Paducah, Kentucky (construction/manufacturing); addressing a critical national security gap (US currently performs <1% of global enrichment)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domestic enrichment technology**: Novel, proprietary enrichment process designed to be cheaper, more reliable, and scalable compared to foreign state-backed competitors
- **National security moat**: Sole US-focused enrichment startup aiming to break dependence on Russian and Chinese supply chains
- **Talent pool**: Attracts high-caliber individuals from nuclear engineering, technology, finance, and special operations backgrounds
- **First-mover in HALEU**: Positioned to fuel the next wave of advanced reactors and behind-the-meter power for AI data centers

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale domestic enrichment capacity**: Build and operate enrichment facilities in the US (Los Angeles and Paducah)
- **Support AI and manufacturing growth**: Provide reliable, emissions-free baseload power for compute and industrial expansion
- **Enable advanced reactors**: Supply HALEU for SMRs and microreactors, opening new markets in remote and austere environments
- **Strengthen US energy independence**: Restore US leadership in nuclear fuel production

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High standards, extreme ownership, copious autonomy, deep trust, zero politics – described as “work with the best across nuclear, tech and finance” [generalmatter.com/careers](https://generalmatter.com/careers/)
- **Work environment**: On-site roles in Los Angeles, CA (engineering, nuclear, legal) and Paducah, KY (construction, procurement); no remote/hybrid options explicitly stated
- **Notable perks**: Mission-driven work with national impact; opportunity to solve a critical energy and security challenge; flat organization with high agency
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on control systems, embedded software, simulation, DevOps, and nuclear safety engineering; also seeks creative minds and numbers savants

## Sources
1. [generalmatter.com](https://generalmatter.com/)
2. [generalmatter.com/careers](https://generalmatter.com/careers/)
3. [generalmatter.com/mission](https://generalmatter.com/mission/)
4. [generalmatter.com/technology](https://generalmatter.com/technology/)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalmatter](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalmatter)

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