Averro
Senior Safety V&V Engineer
Contract
Job Site : Remote
Job No. : 31155
City : Bellevue
State : WA
Pay Range : $72-90/hr
Job Details:
Onsite or Remote: Fully Remote,
Employment Type: Long term contract. Eligible for unlimited extensions and able to stay fully remote for entirety of contract
Pay Range: $72-90/hr
*Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
Benefits: Medical insurance, 401K, sick leave, and employee assistance program. Depending on your package selection, Averro offers PTO, paid holidays, dental/vision, pet, and legal insurance.
Role & Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Senior Safety V&V Engineer for an innovative nuclear company. The Senior Safety Verification and Validation Engineer is part of a growing team supporting the design and licensing of the Natrium Demonstration reactor and is primarily responsible for the verification and validation of software and evaluation models used to perform:
Under SFR Program, the Senior Verification and Validation Engineer receives administrative, technical, and project supervision from the Transient Safety Methods Manager.
Responsibilities:
WHY AVERRO?
Averro is a Veteran-Owned organization dedicated to delivering innovative talent solutions, business consulting, and technology services that propel businesses and careers forward. We live by our ethos: Be Curious | Build Trust | Empower Each Other. These values show in our commitment to client satisfaction, timely support, and unmatched consultant care. Our Aim - Your Ascent.
Averro is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal obligations. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by
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Contract
Job Site : Remote
Job No. : 31155
City : Bellevue
State : WA
Pay Range : $72-90/hr
Job Details:
Onsite or Remote: Fully Remote,
Employment Type: Long term contract. Eligible for unlimited extensions and able to stay fully remote for entirety of contract
Pay Range: $72-90/hr
*Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
Benefits: Medical insurance, 401K, sick leave, and employee assistance program. Depending on your package selection, Averro offers PTO, paid holidays, dental/vision, pet, and legal insurance.
Role & Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Senior Safety V&V Engineer for an innovative nuclear company. The Senior Safety Verification and Validation Engineer is part of a growing team supporting the design and licensing of the Natrium Demonstration reactor and is primarily responsible for the verification and validation of software and evaluation models used to perform:
- Analysis of Licensing Basis Events (LBEs) and/or Design Basis Accident (DBA) Without Radionuclide Release
- Nuclear safety analysis computer code assessment, verification and validation
Under SFR Program, the Senior Verification and Validation Engineer receives administrative, technical, and project supervision from the Transient Safety Methods Manager.
Responsibilities:
- Perform work as a safety verification and validation engineer to develop assessment bases (benchmark, identify applicable tests, etc.), identify uncertainties in experimental data, develop benchmark models, and assess the evaluation model (EM) following the guidance in NRC's RG1.203.
- Perform and coordinate safety computer code verification and validation test programs, including SETs and IETs, inside and outside TerraPower.
- Support and review the scaling analysis as needed
- Prepare the code benchmark documents and code applicability determination,
- Contribute to the development of analytical and computational models and implement them into the system transient analysis computer codes in collaboration with safety analysis engineers.
- Work with an interdisciplinary team of engineers to establish core and reactor SSC functional, performance, safety, and quality requirements as well as support the overall design.
- Perform engineering reviews of analyses and other engineering design media.
- Extensive experience in nuclear safety software verification and validation activities and system transient analysis computer code benchmark.
- Familiarity with EMDAP and Regulatory Guide 1.203 is required.
- Knowledgeable of nuclear systems thermal-hydraulic fundamentals as well as reactor dynamics and transient phenomena.
- Significant experience with safety analysis software such as RELAP5-3D, TRACE, MELCOR, SAS4A/SASSYS-1, SAM or other nuclear system analysis software.
- Familiarity with nuclear design, regulatory requirements, and risk-informed performance-based technology guidance for Non-Light Water Reactors is required.
- Experience with SFR safety methods is highly desirable. Experience with other reactor designs, such as Light Water Reactors (LWRs), can be considered when differentiating candidates.
- Knowledge and experience with scaling methodology and safety analysis are preferred.
- Demonstrated strong quantitative, analytical, modeling and reporting skills.
- Understanding of NQA-1 requirements associated with analysis and software management as well as experience working under a quality assurance program.
- Experience in working in multi-disciplinary engineering teams to address engineering challenges.
- Strong software engineering skills in any language, such as Fortran, C++, or Python, is a plus.
- M.S. or Ph.D. in nuclear engineering, or other relevant engineering degree, with a minimum of 5 years' experience in the nuclear field.
- The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.
- Actual position starting level and title will be determined based on assessment of qualifications.
WHY AVERRO?
Averro is a Veteran-Owned organization dedicated to delivering innovative talent solutions, business consulting, and technology services that propel businesses and careers forward. We live by our ethos: Be Curious | Build Trust | Empower Each Other. These values show in our commitment to client satisfaction, timely support, and unmatched consultant care. Our Aim - Your Ascent.
Averro is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal obligations. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by
federal, state, or local law.
View our privacy policy here: