Neutronics Engineer

Ocean Atomics • Bethesda, MD

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About The Position

Ocean Atomics is an American company designing, licensing, and assembling a standardized nuclear electric power plant and the surrounding support systems for maritime applications. We will install these plants on any vessel built to our nuclear-ready standards, and will provide end-to-end sustainment in our planned nuclear lifecycle dockyard. We will help develop the licensed operators to unlock this new capability for your energy intensive application at sea. To move fast and to lead the creation of this new market, we are leveraging the compact, proven systems enabled by water-cooled reactors. Our mission Scale nuclear energy. Power generations. Our vision A maritime commons thriving with abundant, economical, modern, and safe nuclear-powered activity — built, serviced, and staffed by re-industrialized American shipyards and people. Our Neutronics Engineers will design, simulate, optimize, and document the neutronic aspects of our reactor core.

Requirements

• Experience building and running sophisticated core neutronics simulations
• Strong understanding of nuclear design couplings, challenges, tradeoffs
• Ability to work on a close, rapidly iterative design team
• Strong working knowledge of two or more common reactor simulation tools
• Highly skilled with computers
• Strong technical writing skills

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering or Engineering Physics
• 5+ years professional experience designing cores
• Strong working knowledge of many common deterministic and stochastic neutronics tools (e.g. MCNP, OpenMC, CASMO/SIMULATE, VERA, DRAGON, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Maintain and expand core design simulations, including simple and complex models covering criticality, transmutation/decay, shutdown margin/control rod worth, kinetics parameters, frequency domain stability, etc.
• Work with larger core design team to develop coupled multiphysics models supporting normal and transient behavior
• Analyze and optimize core performance in support of trade studies, licensing documentation, and product optimization
• Rigorously document design results
• Justify calculation methodologies and their V&V in support of the licensing process
• Provide core design information in transient analysis studies
• Provide core information to simulator and operational physics teams
• Perform shielding and activation analysis supporting the design

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Commitment to a workplace free of discrimination
• Reasonable accommodations during the application process

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior