Reliability Engineering Intern

Kairos Power • Albuquerque, NM

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables. Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Reliability Engineering intern to execute hazard evaluations supporting the design, build and operation of near-term nuclear and non-nuclear hardware demonstration projects. The Reliability Engineering intern will work in close consultation with mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls (I&C), testing, manufacturing, operations, and licensing engineering staff to collect operating experience from the Kairos development program, implement reliability strategies, and to conduct hazard evaluations such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). In this role, you will contribute to the technology development programs for the demonstration and commercialization of Kairos Power reactors.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled and pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience with data analysis/automation and ability to develop further experience in R, R Markdown, Python, git, LaTeX, Bash/Shell/Batch scripting, Docker, VS Code, GitHub, etc.
• Proven team player with excellent verbal and written communication/presentation.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work with a highly collaborative team.
• Prioritizes and ensures the safety of oneself and others.
• Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge.
• Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues.

Nice To Haves

• Deep experience using R, R Markdown, git, LaTeX, Bash/Shell/Batch scripting preferred.
• Hands-on experience with hardware design, fabrication, assembly, or testing preferred.
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative hazard evaluation (e.g. HAZOPs, FMEA, FTA, ETA) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of strategies for achieving plant system and component reliability, using failure modes and effects analysis, what-if analysis, fault tree analysis, and other methods as appropriate.
• Track implementation of reliability strategies for Kairos projects, including non-nuclear demonstrations, nuclear demonstrations, salt production, and fuel manufacturing.
• Assists Kairos hardware technology development by capturing and disseminating operating experience.
• Supports continuous improvement efforts that improve automation of analysis and documentation work products.
• Other duties as assigned, which may include hands-on assignments with hardware fabrication, assembly, commissioning and operation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees