TerraPower | terrapower.com | Nuclear Computer Scientist | Seattle (Bellevue) | ONSITE
TerraPower is developing 4th-generation nuclear reactors to provide clean, dependable, world-scale energy. To quickly iterate on the design of these reactors, we run software simulations of them on big computers. We have created a large reactor analysis framework (almost all in Python) that performs physics calculations and automates/couples (generally older) FORTRAN physics codes to compute neutron densities, power distributions, temperatures, pressures, chemistry, in-pin and ex-pin fuel mechanical motion, transient performance, economics, etc. and do multiobjective optimization on these.
The role we're looking for will focus on the framework and related systems, seeking to improve the ease, breadth, rigor, speed, and quality of our nuclear innovation, design, and analysis. Nuclear/physics/applied math experience is a major plus.
Process: Phone interview can lead to a one-day, ~6-hour gauntlet of in-person interviews.
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