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Nuclear Design and Shielding Engineer
15800 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98008 US
Job Description
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting REMOTE contract Nuclear Design and Shielding Engineer opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform radiation shielding design and analysis for advanced nuclear reactors and medical isotopes separations facility, including calculating dose, activation rates, half thicknesses, DPA rates, energy deposition rates and gas production rates.
- Develop radiation source term based on materials activation analysis for non-fuel in-vessel components.
- Design and analyze new systems for solving complex problems.
- Design and execute sensitivity studies to understand the effects and validity of various modeling assumptions, including model geometry complexity, meshing, variance reduction techniques, transport options, cross section preparation, etc., and help build corrected methods if necessary.
- Establish and maintain documentation of analysis results and radiation shielding design solutions.
- Work at the company is dynamic and evolutionary. As such, new responsibilities often arise, and you should be capable of and excited about learning and applying specialized skills.
Job Qualifications:
- B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering or equivalent experience; Advanced degree and 2+ years of relevant experience with nuclear analysis preferred.
- Knowledgeable or highly motivated to quickly learn basic nuclear reactor design concepts to meaningfully support engineering team with understanding of systems being designed and code being reviewed.
- Experience in core and/or radiation shielding design and analysis.
- Experience in criticality safety.
- Strong computational expertise.
- Experience with radiation shielding software such as Attila, MCNP, ADVANTG, Serpent, MAVRIC, Micro Shield, SCALE, OpenMC, Whisper, PARTISN, etc.
- Experience with detailed depletion software such as ORIGEN.
- Experience with nuclear core analysis software such as ARMI, DIF3D, MC2, DRAGON etc.
- Experience with computed aided drafting (e.g., SolidWorks, SpaceClaim/ANSYS, Cubit).
- Good working knowledge of nuclear and/or general numerical methods (e.g., activation analysis, dose rates, PDEs, dynamics, deterministic and stochastic particle transport, isotopic depletion, nuclear data, etc.).
- Excellent verbal and communication skills.
- Ability and professionalism to work within published regulatory guidelines for nuclear reactor design.
- Fast reactor experience preferred.
- An ability to perform professional-quality software development for nuclear applications is preferred.
- Strong programming skills in any language is a plus, but bonus points will be awarded for Python, Git, C++, and Fortran skills.
- Experience working under NQA-1 quality program desired.
- Maintain software by working with team to implement clearly defined enhancement requests and bug fixes.
Job Details:
- Location: 100% Remote
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate Range: $55-80/h DOE
- ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
About Protingent: Protingent is a niche provider of top Engineering and IT talent to Software, Electronics, Medical Device, Telecom, and Aerospace companies nationwide. Protingent exists to make a positive impact and contribution to the lives of others as well as our community by providing relevant, rewarding, and exciting work opportunities for our candidates.
Meet Your Recruiter
Jessica Dunkinson
I began working for Protingent in 2019. Our openings can really fluctuate with the needs of the market, and I especially enjoy working in niche and unique roles. My recruiting style is transparent and to the point and I strive to be as helpful as possible without wasting anyone’s time. I strive to help candidates achieve a fulfilling role, no matter their parameters, and my philosophy is “don’t make excuses, make improvements”. I love recruiting because every day is different; I get the opportunity to speak with a large variety of people while learning the tech industry. My favorite part of the job is being able to make a difference in an individual’s life and helping companies that are making a difference in the world.
I look forward to hearing from you. Jessica