Reactor Modeling and Simulation Lead
Job in
Los Alamos, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, 87545, USA
Listed on 2026-08-18
Listing for:
Space Nuclear Power Corporation
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-18
Job specializations:
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Engineering
Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineer, Energy Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Space Nukes is looking to hire a nuclear engineer to lead the modeling and simulation of our space fission power systems.
- Direct experience with space fission power system design and analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to build and run multiphysics models of space reactors and reactor power systems.
- Experience in modeling reactor power system dynamics and control, including startup, nominal operation, and response to anticipated and postulated events.
- Strong reactor-physics fundamentals and hands-on Monte Carlo transport experience in calculating criticality, reactivity coefficients, kinetics coefficients, control element worth, power distribution, shielding, and dose.
- Significant heat transfer, thermal-hydraulic, thermomechanical analysis experience, and experience connecting neutronics to thermal and structural response.
- Experience in depletion, burnup, source-term, activation, and decay-heat analysis.
- Ability to develop, validate, and maintain in-house design and analysis tools, including familiarity with FORTRAN, Python, Perl, Excel/Visual Basic.
- Familiarity with HEU/HALEU compact fast-spectrum reactors, heat-pipe reactors, and Stirling and Brayton power conversion.
- U.S. person status, export-control eligibility (ITAR/EAR), security clearance desired.
- M.S. or Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering
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