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Nuclear Methods Engineer
15800 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98008 US
Posted: 12/19/2022
2022-12-19
2023-10-05
Employment Type:
Contract
Department: Core Technologies - Contract
Job Number: 26669
Industry: SVCS - Services
Job Description
Position Title: Nuclear Methods Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity with our client in Bellevue, Washington for an experienced Nuclear Methods Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
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.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract opportunity with our client in Bellevue, Washington for an experienced Nuclear Methods Engineer
Job Responsibilities:
- Create formal documentation of nuclear methods software requirements, design, implementation, and testing, primarily in support of licensing Natrium reactors.
- Perform commercial grade dedication of third-party reactor physics tools and data
- Design and execute sensitivity studies to understand the effects and validity of various modeling assumptions, including meshing, physics coupling, transport options, cross section preparation, fission product models, spatial kinetics, etc., and adjust methods as necessary
- Apply methods to assess the propagation of uncertainty and their effect on safety margins
- Build and evaluate benchmark models of historical reactors, reactor experiments, and critical assemblies
- Train and support reactor designers and developers in the use of the design software suite
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- Fast reactor physics and design intuition
- Experience in understanding and executing nuclear design/analysis methodologies, including criticality, flux/power distributions, fuel management optimization, reactivity coefficients, shielding, activation, control rod worth, detector response, and uncertainty analysis, ideally with a focus on fast-neutron reactors
- Experience with some nuclear engineering software such as DIF3D, MC2, PARTISN, MCNP, Serpent, SCALE, PARCS, APA, CASMO, DRAGON, ARMI, etc. preferred
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- Good computational expertise required: we consider computers to be the universe at our fingertips rather than burdensome necessities
- Programming experience in any language required, preferably in scientific computing; bonus points for Python, C++, and Fortran skills
- Working knowledge of fundamental software development tools (e.g. IDEs, version control, profilers, debuggers, documentation builders, packaging tools)
- Experience interacting on nuclear methodology with the NRC under an ASME NQA-1 compliant QA environment preferred
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.
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