Nuclear Analysis Engineer

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 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.

• Perform core design and analysis activities of advanced nuclear reactors, including calculation and optimization of fuel management, power distributions, reactivity coefficients, control rod worth and shutdown margin, sensitivity and uncertainties, consistent with required functional and quality requirements
• 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 meshing, physics coupling, transport options, cross section preparation, fission product treatment, spatial kinetics, etc., and help build corrected methods if necessary
• Establish and maintain documentation of analysis results and nuclear design solutions
• Work at Terra Power is dynamic and evolutionary. As such, new responsibilities often arise, and you should be capable of and excited about learning and applying specialized skills.

• Experience:
  • B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering with 5-20 years’ experience
  • M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering with 3-15 years’ experience
  • Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering with 2-10 years’ experience
  • Competitive candidates will typically have the above experience, but less experienced candidates with highly desired experience will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis
• Knowledge of basic nuclear reactor design concepts to meaningfully support engineering team with understanding of systems being designed and code being reviewed
• Experience in core design and analysis including fuel management optimization, reactivity coefficients, shielding and activation, control rod worth and uncertainty analysis
• Strong computational expertise: we like to consider computers as the universe at our fingertips rather than burdensome necessities
• Experience with nuclear engineering software such as MCNP, DIF3D, MC2, PARTISN, RELAP, SCALE, PARCS, APA, CASMO/SIMULATE, DRAGON, etc.
• Good working knowledge of nuclear and/or general numerical methods (e.g. PDEs, dynamics, deterministic and stochastic particle transport, isotopic depletion, perturbation theory, nuclear data, kinetics, etc.)
• Experience in transient analysis, thermal hydraulics, fuel performance, etc. is desired
• Fast reactor experience or experience with Core Operating Limits Report/Tech Specs is desired
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Ability and professionalism to work within published regulatory guidelines for nuclear reactor design
• An ability to perform professional‑quality software development for nuclear applications is preferred
• Strong programming skills in any language is a plus
• Experience working in NQA-1 environments desired
• Maintain software by working with team to implement clearly defined enhancement…