Fuel Performance Engineer

Oklo·Santa Clara, CA or Remote·Posted today

Nuclear industryUS only

About this role

Fuel Performance Engineer at Oklo responsible for analyzing and verifying current and future fuel designs for Aurora advanced reactors. You'll conduct multi-physics analyses, develop modeling and simulation tools, and collaborate across reactor design, fuel fabrication, and licensing teams to support advanced reactor fuel qualification.

Responsibilities

—Analyze current and novel fuel design performance across expected operating conditions and postulated off-normal conditions
—Devise analysis methodologies that efficiently build confidence in designs, including software development of modeling and simulation tools
—Perform verification and validation of modeling and simulation tools in support of analyses
—Support experimental fuel campaigns
—Collaborate cross-functionally to provide technical feedback to design teams
—Document work using modern tools and techniques, and write technical reports

Qualifications

—Bachelor's degree in engineering plus 3 years of experience
—Experience with multi-physics system performance analyses
—Experience with finite element simulation software (e.g., Ansys, Abaqus)
—Experience with material analysis
—Experience with object-oriented programming language (e.g., Python, C++)

Desired

—Experience with nuclear fuel performance analysis
—Familiarity with metallic fuels
—Experience with fuel analysis and fuel performance software (e.g., BISON, LIFE-METAL)
—Experience in material selection and material analysis
—Fluency in Python