Postdoctoral Fellow-Walker Department of Mechancial Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Core
Develop and maintain a digital twin of the University of Texas at Austin Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab (NETL) TRIGA reactor to support research in nuclear reactor multiphysics, digital twin methods, and uncertainty quantification.
Role type
Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Engineering and Computational Science
Builds
Digital twin framework for the NETL TRIGA reactor
Domain
Nuclear Engineering, Computational Science, High-Performance Computing
Deliverable
production ML models | research
Required skills
PhD in nuclear engineering, computational science, AI, or data science (completed within 3 years), innovation in computational science with strong publication history, ability to contribute to interdisciplinary research in computational engineering and uncertainty quantification, ability to obtain source code access to export controlled nuclear software
Preferred skills
experience in reactor physics, computational methods, machine learning, data science, modern software development practices, GIT-based version control, high performance computing platforms, object-oriented programming
Technologies
VERA, MOOSE, Shift, GIT
Responsibilities
Conducting independent research, mentoring students in the research group, publication of results in peer-reviewed journals, support to faculty on writing research grant proposals
Seniority
Postdoctoral Fellow, independent researcher with mentorship duties