Lead Principal Engineer, Plant Design Integration

Lead Principal Engineer, Plant Design Integration

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States (Remote)

Job Type: Full-time | Allows Remote

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. As a result, the company’s 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 – all 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.

In addition, as a federal contractor, Terra Power has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

• Develop, manage, maintain, and integrate plant level requirements and specification documents for integration with plant design activities
• Directs and provides oversight for the technical scope for Plant Design Integration deliverables
• Leads the development and management of the Natrium Reactor Plant Architecture
• Research, develop, and implement design bases and design strategies in support of plant design and licensing activities from various sources that include risk-Informed, performance-based strategies and methodologies, safety analysis concepts, commercial and operational objectives, and stakeholder objectives
• Interface with design disciplines to facilitate allocation of plant requirements and develop plant requirement verification plans
• Ensure and review that licensing and code requirements are clearly established and implemented in the design and in alignment with project design and licensing strategies
• Support and review plant design cost studies, engineering decisions, and perform interdisciplinary reviews as a representative of plant level considerations and stakeholder for the plant architecture
• Review, coordinate, and oversee plant integrated, safety, and risk analyses for their impact to plant functional and performance requirements
• Lead and support design and design integration reviews and resolution of cross functional technical issues
• Lead and support the integration of plant information into licensing basis and regulatory submittal documents that support the licensing of nuclear facilities under the Licensing Modernization Project
• Keep Project Management and Engineering Management informed of major emerging technical issues and risks
• Support continuous learning and application of nuclear industry best practices to maintain the highest quality of engineering design and proactively identify efficiency/enhancement opportunities

• The successful candidate should have a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in nuclear facility design or operation that includes experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Plant or systems engineering
  • Des…