Senior Thermal Modeling Engineer

About Radiant Radiant is an El Segundo, CA-based company building the world's only mass-produced, transportable nuclear microreactors. The U.S. grid is under growing strain, with power demand accelerating, driving higher utility costs, rising carbon emissions, and interconnection backlogs. Radiant has a solution, transportable, on-site power. Our first reactor, Kaleidos, is 1 megawatt: small enough to be factory-built, transported by land, sea, or air, and deployed wherever power is needed.

1 MW can power 1000 homes for five years. Ship it back and we refuel for a 20 year operating life. We made energy a product that can be used for critical infrastructure like military bases, data centers, hospitals, and remote sites, as well as the commercial main street businesses that keep America running. Founded in 2020, Radiant is under contract to deliver power to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force and has signed pre-order agreements with Equinix, with deployments beginning in 2028.About

the Role Radiant is seeking a driven Senior Thermal Modeling Engineer with expertise in CFD and thermal FEA modeling. You will design, develop and implement simulations for the Kaleidos microreactor to ensure high fidelity, reliability, and safety of our systems. You’ll work on cutting edge technical problems for a high temperature gas reactor that inform decisions across reactor systems, cooling systems, shielding, and more.

You will have an opportunity to work in an interdisciplinary environment and drive milestones forward to unlock commercialization of the first mass-produced nuclear reactor.

Responsibilities & Duties:
Own and execute thermal CFD analysis to evaluate design and performance of Kaleidos reactor systems.

Develop and implement solutions to model turbulent flow, heat transfer, and multi-physics interactions.

Identify and implement CFD simulation best practices.

Build automated workflows to expand simulation capabilities, accuracy, and efficiencies

Collaborate across teams and disciplines to support design of reduced order analysis methods.

Required

Qualifications & Skills:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, physics, or similar field from an accredited institution.
5+ years of relevant industry experience.
5+ years experience with STAR-CCM+, Ansys Fluent, or other commercial CFD code.

Proficiency with CAD software (Siemens NX).Mastery of finite element and computational fluid dynamics modeling principles and methods.

Experience communicating and distilling information with cross-functional teams.

Desired

Qualifications & Skills:

Experience with radiation heat transport modeling.

Knowledge of nuclear reactor design.

Driven, self-motivated, and takes ownership of work end to end.

Additional Requirements Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to accomplish our mission.

Must work 100% onsite at El Segundo HQ.Benefits and Perks Stock:
Substantial incentive stock plan for all full-time employees.

Medical: 100% up to base silver level plan for employee + 50% dependents, offers up to Platinum plans.

One Medical:
Sponsored memberships for employees and their dependents.

Vision: 100% top tier plan coverage + 50% for dependents.

Dental: 100% top tier plan coverage, orthodontia extra, 50% for dependents.

Voluntary life, accident, hospital, critical illness, commuter and FSA/HSA are offered as employee contributed benefits.
8-weeks of paid parental leave for all parents. Additional paid pregnancy leave for CA employees.

Nuclear Engineering Certificate Program: 100% covered educational program with Penn State University, for eligible employees, to rapidly upscale into nuclear.

Daily catered lunch. Free snacks and drinks.

Flexible PTO policy. Remote workday allocation.

Company and team-bonding events, happy…