Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. They are seeking a Neutronics Analysis Engineer to define, develop, and execute neutronics analyses to support reactor design and safety assurance, collaborating closely with the design team.
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
- Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in a technical field, such as nuclear engineering, with experience in reactor design and analysis (Masters or PhD may be preferable)
- 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
Benefits
- Untracked paid time off
- Competitive pay
- Equity
- 401k
- Health insurance
- FSA
- Flexible work hours
- Travel to headquarters (Santa Clara, CA) twice a quarter annually, based on business or team needs, including attendance at team meetings, off-sites, and other company events or gatherings
- For the first two weeks of onboarding, employees are required to be in person at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA
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