- El Segundo, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Staff
- 8+ years
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
- Nice to have: Safety analysis
- Nice to have: Shielding
- Nice to have: Radiation dose and activation