Fuels Engineer 4

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary technical authority for fuel thermal-mechanical analysis techniques, encompassing gap conductance, cladding strain, fatigue, creep collapse, pellet-cladding interaction, and performance margins.

• Lead the development, qualification, and application of advanced fuel performance modeling methodologies.

• Assess and integrate industry innovations, benchmark data, and vendor methodologies into NuScale’s thermal-mechanical framework.

• Support interfacing techniques such as neutronics, subchannel analysis, and system thermal-hydraulics.

• Conduct safety analysis calculations using industry-standard and advanced fuel thermal-mechanical simulation tools.

• Analyze limits and margins for normal operations and design-basis events.

• Oversee software benchmarking, qualification, and quality assurance documentation.

• Combine fuel thermal-mechanical methods with multi-physics modeling and methods development.

• Assist in the development of product and service strategies for next-generation light-water reactor fuel.

• Manage thermal-mechanical input/output interfaces, change control, shared models, and cross-discipline analysis frameworks.

• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and manage complex analysis tasks.

• Contribute to licensing technical/topical reports, license applications, and other licensing documentation.

• Engage in licensing interactions with the government regulator.

• Prepare and validate engineering reports, calculations, studies, system descriptions, requirement specifications, and design documents.

• Create innovative solutions to complex technical challenges and perform analyses with minimal oversight.

• Adapt to changing organizational priorities, urgent analyses, cross-functional reviews, troubleshooting, and special studies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of a B.S. degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or a related field from an accredited four-year college or university.

• An advanced degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering is preferred.

• At least 8 years of full-time, directly relevant engineering experience.

• Proven experience in implementing engineering design processes for fuel thermal-mechanical analysis and fuel design.

• Additional experience with neutronics, transient analysis, and related safety analysis is preferred.

• Core design and neutronics experience is preferred.

• Must be eligible to work under Department of Energy 10 CFR Part 810.

• Knowledge of and experience with 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 21, and NQA-1 quality assurance regulations, standards, and guidelines.

• Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing, through phone, personal interaction, and computer interfaces.

• Ability to quickly learn new job functions and effectively apply new concepts.

• Willingness to travel nationally and locally using common transportation methods.

• Competence in performing essential duties efficiently and accurately without posing a significant safety threat to oneself or others.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work options for individuals residing beyond a 30-mile radius of a physical NuScale office, but within the contiguous United States.

• Comprehensive employee benefits are available; further details can be found on the NuScale Careers Overview page.

• We are an equal opportunity employer.