Seeking a Staff Nuclear Engineer to provide technical expertise across the nuclear design and analysis of Kaleidos, solving multidisciplinary reactor design challenges.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership across reactor physics, core performance, shielding, dose and activation, thermal-hydraulics, safety analysis, I&C, and reactor operations.
Own complex nuclear engineering projects from requirements capture and design iteration through model development, analysis, technical review, and final documentation.
Perform and guide analyses of criticality, reactivity control, shutdown margin, power distribution, depletion, temperature feedback, radiation transport, dose, activation, and shielding performance.
Develop, review, and improve high-fidelity neutron and radiation transport models used to support reactor design, safety, testing, and regulatory evaluations.
Translate analytical results into actionable requirements and design decisions affecting the core, shielding, control systems, instrumentation, fluid systems, structures, and surrounding hardware.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering or a related technical discipline
Nice to have: Master’s degree or Ph.D. in nuclear engineering
Lead engineer role focused on understanding the effects of natural radiation and nuclear events on relevant systems, supporting the modernization of nuclear deterrent capabilities and NC3.
Compensation
$156,400 - $195,500 - $234,600 Annual
Responsibilities
Analyze nuclear effects on aircraft, spacecraft and communications systems to support development of all nuclear hardness system level design, including system level analysis and testing.
Generate weapon system design criteria supported by design analysis, modeling & simulation, equipment and system-level trade studies, system integration, piece-part, component, equipment, and system test artifacts.
Execute the analysis and/or evaluation/validation of components, equipment, subsystems, or weapon system analytical models and actual system implementation for weapons compliance to operationally relevant nuclear threat environments.
Contribute to and review NH&S Design Analysis Reports (DAR) and nuclear hardness system test plans and reports documenting equipment compliance and weapon system certification.
Conduct essential design evaluations and provide technical assessments on systems survivability by understanding system responses to nuclear events by utilizing home-developed and third-party software/physics codes on effects of radiation, electromagnetic pulses and/or electromagnetic interference.
The role involves modeling nuclear environments, exploring radiation transport effects, and conducting software modeling and simulation for strategic missile defense systems.
Compensation
$46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual
Responsibilities
Using established tools to model nuclear environments
Explore the concepts in radiation transport effects in materials
Conduct radiation transport modeling using third-party software/physics codes
Software modeling and simulation of strategic missile defense systems
The Radiation Effects Engineer I will support the Radiation Effects Engineer section, performing radiation response testing, modeling, and analysis to assess hardware designs against specifications and requirements.
Compensation
The salary range for this role is 62,900 USD - 119,700 USD.
Responsibilities
Derives the system radiation requirements from the environment specifications
Provides cross discipline support in applying unique skills to program design and system engineers
Develops and manages the program engineering and qualification radiation testing efforts
Analyzing and Modeling radiation data using Novice, FASTRAD, and Pspice modeling tools
Gain experience communicating, auditing, and collaborating with suppliers and manufacturers
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Aerospace Engineering or related Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) major
Nice to have: knowledge of semiconductor physics
Nice to have: proficiency in one or more Radiation transport tools (MCNP, GEANT, NOVICE, etc)
Nice to have: proficiency in FPGA programming
Nice to have: hands-on person with ability to work with test equipment
Radiation shielding engineers provide analysis for future designs, consulting services and support to construction activities for submarines, training ships, and prototypes within nuclear programs.
Responsibilities
Collaborating within a team environment to develop and maintain shield designs and associated software tools.
Working to resolve emergent construction support inquiries.
Developing code within the current shield design methods.
Interfacing with designers, shipyard personnel, the Naval Nuclear Laboratories and the Navy customer.
Requirements
Bachelor's of Science in Nuclear Engineering
Bachelor's of Science in Physics
Nice to have: Masters or PhD in Nuclear Engineering
Nice to have: Masters or PhD in Physics (Nuclear focus)
Lead and execute advanced radiation transport simulations and analyses for the National Ignition Facility and related facilities, developing tools and shielding solutions to protect electronics and diagnostics.
Compensation
$210,630 - $267,030 Annually
Responsibilities
Operate under consultative direction with substantial authority to resolve complex problems
Perform radiation transport simulations to identify hazards and shielding solutions
Conduct detailed activation analyses and characterize decay dose rate environments
Apply radiation transport methods to predict damage to electronics
Characterize neutron sources and radiation fields affecting diagnostic systems
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering or related technical field
PhD degree in Nuclear Engineering or related technical field
Lead senior engineer focused on understanding the effects of natural radiation and nuclear events on relevant systems, supporting nuclear hardness system level design.
Compensation
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $126,800 - $158,500 - $190,200 Annual
Responsibilities
Analyze nuclear effects on aircraft, spacecraft and communications systems to support development of all nuclear hardness system level design
Generating weapon system design criteria supported by design analysis, modeling & simulation, equipment and system-level trade studies, system integration, piece-part, component, equipment, and system test artifacts
Execute the analysis and/or evaluation/validation of components, equipment, subsystems, or weapon system analytical models and actual system implementation for weapons compliance to operationally relevant nuclear threat environments
Contribute to and review NH&S Design Analysis Reports (DAR) and nuclear hardness system test plans and reports documenting equipment compliance and weapon system certification
Conduct essential design evaluations and provide technical assessments on systems survivability by understanding system responses to nuclear events by utilizing home-developed and third-party software/physics codes on effects of radiation, electromagnetic pulses and/or electromagnetic interference
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