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Senior Safety V&V Engineer

Bellevue, WA 98008

Posted: 03/31/2025 Employment Type: Contract Department: Core Technologies - Contract Job Number: 30306 Industry: SVCS - Services

Job Description

Position Title: Senior Safety V&V Engineer

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior Safety V&V Engineer opportunity.

Job Responsibilities:
  • Perform work as a safety verification and validation engineer to develop assessment bases (benchmark, identify applicable tests, etc.), identify uncertainties in experimental data, develop benchmark models, and assess the evaluation model (EM) following the guidance in NRC’s RG1.203.
  • Perform and coordinate safety computer code verification and validation test programs, including SETs and IETs, inside and outside the company.
  • Support and review the scaling analysis as needed
  • Prepare the code benchmark documents and code applicability determination,
  • Contribute to the development of analytical and computational models and implement them into the system transient analysis computer codes in collaboration with safety analysis engineers.
  • Work with an interdisciplinary team of engineers to establish core and reactor SSC functional, performance, safety, and quality requirements as well as support the overall design.
  • Perform engineering reviews of analyses and other engineering design media.

Job Qualifications:
  • Extensive experience in nuclear safety software verification and validation activities and system transient analysis computer code benchmark.
  • Familiarity with EMDAP and Regulatory Guide 1.203 is required.
  • Knowledgeable of nuclear systems thermal-hydraulic fundamentals as well as reactor dynamics and transient phenomena.
  • Significant experience with safety analysis software such as RELAP5-3D, TRACE, MELCOR, SAS4A/SASSYS-1, SAM or other nuclear system analysis software.
  • Familiarity with nuclear design, regulatory requirements, and risk-informed performance-based technology guidance for Non-Light Water Reactors is required.
  • Experience with SFR safety methods is highly desirable. Experience with other reactor designs, such as Light Water Reactors (LWRs), can be considered when differentiating candidates.
  • Knowledge and experience with scaling methodology and safety analysis are preferred.
  • Demonstrated strong quantitative, analytical, modeling and reporting skills.
  • Understanding of NQA-1 requirements associated with analysis and software management as well as experience working under a quality assurance program.
  • Experience in working in multi-disciplinary engineering teams to address engineering challenges.
  • Strong software engineering skills in any language, such as Fortran, C++, or Python, is a plus.
  • M.S. or Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, or other relevant engineering degree, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in the nuclear field.
  • The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.
  • Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.

Job Details:
  • Job Type: Contract
  • Location: Bellevue, WA./100% Remote Acceptable
  • Pay Rate Range: $72-$90/hr.
  • Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status

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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