Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants, nuclear fuel recycling technologies, and clean energy solutions. The Neutronics Analysis Engineer will define, develop, and execute in-core and ex-core neutronics analyses supporting reactor design, performance evaluation, and safety assurance, while contributing to verification, validation, licensing, and regulatory interactions.
Responsibilities
- Perform the complete range of actions involved in supporting core design and fuel cycle analysis using Monte Carlo and deterministic codes on Oklo reactors
- Perform calculations and analyses in Monte Carlo based codes such as Serpent, MCNP, SCALE, and OpenMC
- Perform calculations and analyses with fast reactor deterministic codes such as DIF3D, PERSENT
- Support the qualification and verification of neutronic analyses, including validation against experiments and benchmarks
- Be aware of and familiar with fast reactor core design and analysis work being performed internationally, as well as related benchmark calculations and experiments being performed internationally
- Provide technical feedback to quick-iterating design teams
- Document work using modern tools and techniques, and write well-written, thoughtful technical reports
Skills
- * If you have experience and expertise in reactor design, apply!
- We also think the following are good indicators of qualifications to do this job: Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in a technical field, such as nuclear engineering, with experience in reactor design and analysis
- Fluency with Python
- Experience with modern object oriented languages, preferably C++
- Proficiency with high performance computing systems
- Experience with fast reactor design and analysis is highly recommended
- Proficiency with MCNP and SERPENT is highly recommended
- Proficiency with ORNL's SCALE code system (TRITON, KENO, SAMPLER, etc.) is recommended
- Proficiency with Argonne's ARC codes (MC2, DIF3D, etc.) is recommended
- (Masters or PhD may be preferable)
Benefits
- Untracked paid time off
- Equity
- 401k
- Health insurance
- FSA
- Flexible work hours
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