Consequence Safety Methods & Analysis Engineer

Title: Consequence Safety Methods & Analysis Engineer

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States

Job Type: Full-time

Terra Power is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, Terra Power originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world.

They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well‑being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. Terra Power's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. Its activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications for significant human health benefits.

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward‑thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

As a federal contractor, Terra Power has instituted an affirmative action plan (AAP) to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

The Consequence Safety Methods & Analysis Engineer is part of a growing team supporting the design and licensing of the Natrium® demonstration reactor and is primarily responsible for performing methodology development and safety analysis in the following areas:

• Analysis of Licensing Basis Events (LBEs) with radionuclide release
• Mechanistic source term
• Emergency planning zone
• Radiological release consequence

The engineer may also contribute as a subject‑matter expert to other projects under development by the Terra Power sodium‑cooled fast reactor (SFR) program. Other engineering activities include, but are not limited to, performing accident analyses, contributing to software qualification, participating in hazard analysis, and performing verification and validation activities. Under the SFR program, the engineer receives administrative, technical, and project supervision from the Consequence Safety Methods & Analysis Manager.

• Develop methodologies using a graded approach to the Evaluation Model Development and Assessment Process (EMDAP).
• Develop assessment bases (benchmark, identify applicable tests, etc.) and assess the evaluation model.
• Develop analytical and computational models in collaboration with safety analysis engineers.
• Perform transient and accident analyses to meet the safety analysis needs of the SFR program.
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of engineers to establish core and SSC functional, performance, safety, and quality requirements, as well as support the overall design.
• Establish and maintain analysis‑of‑record and methodology documentation.
• Perform engineering reviews of analyses and other engineering design media.
• Contribute, as needed, to the implementation of capabilities required for transient and accident analysis within the Terra Power software framework.

• M.S. or Ph.D. in nuclear engineering or other relevant engineering degree, with at least 10+ years of experience in the nuclear field.
• Knowledgeable of nuclear systems thermal‑hydraulic, fuel performance, reactor dynamics, accident source term, and transient phenomena.
• Experience directly interacting with the U.S. NRC on…