Nuclear Design Safety Engineer

This design-focused role aims to steer the stellarator design and facilitate choices that ensure radiological safety is prioritized. Work across teams to ensure that component designers are informed of relevant nuclear safety implications. Review the existing design and propose changes that improve safety, mitigate accident scenarios, and strengthen compliance with regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

Review designs with nuclear safety in mind; Engage with engineering and physics teams, early in the design process to ensure components and systems are developed with nuclear safety considerations; Collaborate with the neutronics experts, material scientists, and manufacturers to define limits for impurities in materials exposed to intense neutron irradiation; Analyze accident scenarios and propose mitigations; Support licensing activities, safety case development, and regulatory submissions; Develop and maintain procedures for tritium handling, activated material management, and waste minimization; Train and inform staff on radiation safety practices (e.g., nuclear-qualified welding); Provide clear justification for design changes to fulfil risk analysis requirements; Translate complex analysis outputs (e.g., neutronics dose maps) into actionable design guidance; Conduct supporting analyses (e.g., neutronics activation simulations with OpenMC) to evidence the benefits of safety-driven design decisions; Lead the development of operational procedures that are compatible with regulatory and inspection requirements; Perform detailed Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEA) to identify potential component and system failures, evaluate their safety implications, assess risk significance, and recommend design or procedural mitigations to ensure compliance with nuclear safety standards

Requirements

Experienced nuclear safety engineer or a similar role, designing nuclear reactors or reactor components; Experienced in engaging with German regulators; Operating in radioactive environments with both gamma and neutron dose; Able to quantify the risk of material activation due to neutron irradiation with OpenMC; Able to program in Python to interface with the design and simulation capabilities; Understanding of tritium-related risks and associated design mitigation strategies

Nice to have

Relevant education, such as a nuclear engineering degree; German speaker

Benefits

Work on some of the most complex tech challenges to bring abundant, safe, clean energy to the world; Join and learn from an exceptional selection of accomplished and driven individuals; Do your life's best work and enjoy the journey; Get to show that big things are possible in Europe when you assemble the best talent