Nuclear Criticality Safety Research Staff Member
Core
Design, model, and analyze laboratory critical and subcritical experiments; develop radiation measurement instrumentation; and perform criticality safety evaluations for national security missions.
Role type
Senior IC nuclear criticality safety research engineer
Builds
Experimental benchmarks for the International Criticality Safety Benchmark Evaluation Project (ICSBEP) and radiation measurement instrumentation
Domain
Nuclear engineering and radiation physics
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
radiation transport methods, computational physics, programming languages, experimental design, safety and management reviews, technical writing, scientific presentation
Preferred skills
Principal Investigator experience, proposal development for novel projects, ICSBEP user/evaluator/reviewer experience
Technologies
MCNP, SCALE, GEANT, COG, Serpent, OpenMC, Python, FORTRAN, C++
Responsibilities
Collaborate in the design, modeling, and analysis of laboratory critical and subcritical experiments; Develop experimental procedures and guide them through safety and management reviews; Publish research results in peer-reviewed journals and present at conferences; Function as a Principal Investigator for complex experiments (SES.3 level)
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC