Averro · 21 hours ago
Senior Nuclear Engineer - Fuel Performance
United States
Contract
Remote
Senior Level
$54/hr - $90/hr
6+ years expAverro is a Veteran-Owned organization dedicated to delivering innovative talent solutions, business consulting, and technology services. They are seeking a highly motivated Senior Engineer, Fuel Performance and Development to support the Nuclear Fuel Development and Qualification team, contributing to the design, development, testing, and qualification of nuclear fuel and core components.
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Hiring Manager
AnAn Chen
Responsibilities
Perform thermo-mechanical analysis of fuel rods and other sodium fast reactor core components to support core/plant design activities, irradiation testing, and code benchmarking
Work with interdisciplinary team of engineers to ensure fuel and absorber designs meet their overall objectives
Develop fuel and material models and analysis methods
Compose and review technical documents to support core/reactor plant design, licensing, software verification and validation, and testing activities
Design and execute sensitivity studies to understand the effects and validity of various modeling assumptions, including meshing, physics coupling, material models, design tolerances
Development of software and databases for cataloging experiments and analysis
Create formal documentation of nuclear fuels methods software requirements, design, implementation, and testing in support of licensing reactors
Update, improve, and/or create software to satisfy all licensing requirements during the Verification and Validation (V&V) process
Support software and document reviews in areas of fuel performance modeling, fuel performance, or other areas of subject expertise
Build and apply methods to assess the propagation of uncertainty and their effect on safety margins
Enhance engineering team's ability to build models and make meaningful conclusions from simulation output through input tools, visualization, reports, etc
Support irradiation testing by performing fuel performance assessments for pre-test predictions or support interpretation of test results, prepare test plans, and prepare test reports summarizing results
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, or Materials Engineering
A minimum of 6 years of experience in fuel performance modeling or thermo-mechanical analysis
Strong skills in the areas of finite element methods, heat transfer, solid mechanics, non-linear visco-elastic material behavior, behavior of nuclear fuels and irradiation effects on materials
Experience with numerical methods and computational algorithms
Programs: ABAQUS, ANSYS, COMSOL, MOOSE, or equivalent FEA codes
Programming languages: PYTHON, FORTRAN
Experience in understanding and executing nuclear fuel design and analysis methodologies ideally with a focus on fast-neutron reactors
Experience interfacing with manufacturing vendors/engineers to account for the impacts of manufacturing tolerances/limitations on component design
Excellent technical writing, communication, and presentation skills
Attention to detail and aspiration for technical excellence
Possess ability to work on tasks that require a multi-disciplinary approach
Ability to consistently deliver to an aggressive schedule
Self-motivated: able to seek out tasks and produce value aligned with team goals without waiting for next assignment
Willingness to openly give and accept professional criticism through technical reviews and other venues
The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect, and a desire to foster teamwork
Preferred
Experience in performing design activities to applicable requirements such as NQA-1, ASME B&PV, AWS, 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, or equivalent
Experience interacting on nuclear methodology with the NRC under an ASME NQA-1 compliant QA environment
Excellent “under-the-hood” knowledge of the methods of reactor physics analysis, finite element models, constitutive material models
Ability to integrate and automate simulation tools
Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
401k
Sick leave
Employee assistance program
PTO
Paid holidays
Legal insurance
Company
Averro
Averro was founded in 2010
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Christopher Duxler
CIO/CTO
Jennifer Edson, CPA
CFO Consultant
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