Maritime Neutronics Engineer: Core Design & Simulation

Ocean Atomics; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocean Atomics is seeking a Neutronics Engineer to design, simulate, and document the neutronic aspects of our Nuclear Electric Power Plant for maritime applications. You will build and run advanced core models and contribute to a fast, iterative design team.

The role requires experience with deterministic and stochastic neutronics tools, strong technical writing, and a Bachelor’s in Nuclear Engineering or Engineering Physics. Bethesda, MD-based, equal-opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Experience building and running sophisticated core neutronics simulations.
• Strong understanding of nuclear design couplings, challenges, tradeoffs.
• Ability to work on a close, rapidly iterative design team.
• Strong working knowledge of two or more common reactor simulation tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and expand core design simulations, including simple and complex models covering criticality, transmutation/decay, shutdown margin/control rod worth, kinetics parameters, frequency domain stability, etc.
• Work with larger core design team to develop coupled multiphysics models supporting normal and transient behavior
• Analyze and optimize core performance in support of trade studies, licensing documentation, and product optimization
• Rigorously document design results
• Justify calculation methodologies and their V&V in support of the licensing process
• Provide core design information in transient analysis studies
• Provide core information to simulator and operational physics teams
• Perform shielding and activation analysis supporting the design

Skills

Neutronics simulations

Nuclear design coupling

Team collaboration

Reactor simulation tools

Education

Bachelor's in Nuclear Engineering

Tools

MCNP

OpenMC

CASMO/SIMULATE

VERA

DRAGON

Job description

Ocean Atomics is seeking a Neutronics Engineer to design, simulate, and document the neutronic aspects of our Nuclear Electric Power Plant for maritime applications. You will build and run advanced core models and contribute to a fast, iterative design team.

The role requires experience with deterministic and stochastic neutronics tools, strong technical writing, and a Bachelor’s in Nuclear Engineering or Engineering Physics. Bethesda, MD-based, equal-opportunity employer.