Fusion Modeling Intern: Surrogates & Design Optimization

Hitachi Ventures GmbH; Kearny (NJ); On-site; USD 24,796 - 41,328; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Stipend

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Thea Energy invites applicants for an internship focused on fusion energy research. You will implement reduced models of physics phenomena and engineering systems, and generate coupled workflows of integrated models with optimization.

Training surrogate models on high-fidelity simulations is also part of the role. Ideal candidates have experience with toroidal plasma confinement devices, nonlinear optimization, and data science or machine learning.

Qualifications

• Experience with toroidal plasma confinement devices.
• Experience with constrained nonlinear numerical optimization.
• Experience in data science or machine learning is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Implement reduced models of physics phenomena and engineering systems.
• Generate coupled workflows of integrated models with constrained optimization of designs.
• Train surrogate models on high-fidelity simulation outputs.

Skills

Toroidal plasma confinement

Constrained nonlinear optimization

Systems studies

Data science

Machine learning

Job description

Thea Energy invites applicants for an internship focused on fusion energy research. You will implement reduced models of physics phenomena and engineering systems, and generate coupled workflows of integrated models with optimization.

Training surrogate models on high-fidelity simulations is also part of the role. Ideal candidates have experience with toroidal plasma confinement devices, nonlinear optimization, and data science or machine learning.