Oklo Inc

Core Thermal-Hydraulics Methods Engineer

Oklo Inc

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa Clara • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $73,000 - $157,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Modeling core thermal-hydraulic behavior using subchannel codes such as DASSH, or MOOSE-Subchannel
  • modeling one-dimensional systems codes such as SAS4A/SASSYS-1 or SAM
  • first principles approaches and in-house flow network models
  • Developing methods to analyze core thermal-hydraulic behavior at steady-state and during transients
  • Developing and utilizing analysis methods that efficiently and effectively build confidence in a design
  • Automation, verification, and validation of modeling and simulation tools in support of analyses
  • Collaborating cross-functionally to define design requirements, and providing technical feedback to quick-iterating design teams
  • Document work using modern tools and techniques, and write well-written, thoughtful technical reports

Requirements

  • Bachelors, Masters, or PhD in a technical field, such as nuclear, mechanical, or aerospace engineering
  • Proficiency with thermal-hydraulics (thermal fluids) analysis methods
  • Core competencies in heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics first principles
  • Experience with low-fidelity and intermediate-fidelity (e.g., porous body and correlation-based) models for heat transfer and fluid flow
  • Experience with numerical methods and software development for heat transfer and fluid flow problems
  • Experience with data processing (e.g., pre-processing, post-processing, scripting)
Benefits
  • flexible time off
  • equity
  • competitive pay
  • 401k
  • health insurance
  • FSA
  • flexible work hours

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
thermal-hydraulics analysisheat transferfluid dynamicsthermodynamicsnumerical methodssoftware developmentdata processingmodeling and simulationsubchannel codesone-dimensional systems codes
Soft skills
collaborationtechnical feedbackdocumentationcommunication
Certifications
Bachelors in engineeringMasters in engineeringPhD in engineering