Neutronics Engineer

As a member of the neutronics group you will play a critical role in advancing our stellarator design. Your work will focus on analysis required for licensing and operational safety of the Alpha stellarator. You will carry out reproducible neutronics simulations and automate neutronics simulation workflows.

Responsibilities

Perform neutronics analysis using OpenMC and DAGMC for a range of neutron and photon responses important for stellarator optimization and design; Contribute to the integration of neutronics analysis into automated pipelines, including programming in Python (essential skill), using version control (Git/Graphite) within a Docker environment; Perform verification and validation by comparing simulation results obtained with OpenMC to other codes and experimental data; Construct simulation ready CAD with CadQuery and CSG geometries of the stellarator and surrounding facility; In addition to developing in-house neutronics workflows, you may have opportunities to contribute to open-source codes we depend on for nuclear data processing, CAD conversion / meshing, and particle transport simulations

Requirements

A PhD or Master’s degree in nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, or equivalent experience; Experience in processing nuclear data; Experience with the main codes that we use (OpenMC, DAGMC, CadQuery, Gmsh) for neutronics analysis; Experience designing neutron and gamma shielding; Experienced Python programmer using software development tools such as Git

Nice to have

Programming in C++ is considered a benefit; Experience with computation in cloud or HPC environments involving numerical simulations (desirable)