Fuels Engineer 4 (Nuclear)

Location: Remote within the contiguous United States; applicants must live beyond a 30-mile radius of a physical NuScale office.

Salary: $127,104–$153,401 annually; full range $113,955–$178,237 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops advanced small modular reactor technology and related nuclear engineering solutions.

What you will do

• Serve as a technical authority for fuel thermal-mechanical analysis, including gap conductance, cladding strain, fatigue, creep collapse, pellet-cladding interaction, and performance margins.
• Develop, qualify, benchmark, and apply advanced fuel performance modeling methods for next-generation light-water reactor fuel.
• Perform safety analysis calculations and independently evaluate operating and design-basis-event limits and margins.
• Integrate fuel thermal-mechanical methods with neutronics, subchannel analysis, system thermal-hydraulics, and other multiphysics frameworks.
• Lead software benchmarking, qualification, quality assurance documentation, interface definition, and change control.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to licensing reports, license applications, and regulatory interactions.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited four-year college or university.
• At least 8 years of directly relevant, full-time engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience implementing engineering design processes for fuel thermal-mechanical analysis and fuel design.
• Eligibility to work under Department of Energy 10 CFR Part 810.
• Ability to develop engineering reports, calculations, studies, requirements, system descriptions, and licensing documentation.
• Ability to work independently on complex technical problems and collaborate across thermal-hydraulics, nuclear design, code development, engineering, and operations functions.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering.
• Experience with neutronics, transient analysis, core design, and related safety analysis.
• Knowledge of next-generation light-water reactor fuel designs and analysis methods.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with an annual target pay range of $127,104–$153,401.
• Work within a safety-focused nuclear engineering organization.
• Responsibilities include adherence to 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 21, and NQA-1 quality assurance requirements.
• National and local travel may be required.
• Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities.