Fuels Engineer 2 (Nuclear SMR)

Location: Remote within the contiguous United States; remote work is available to individuals living beyond a 30-mile radius of a physical NuScale office.

Target pay range: $87,107–$105,129 annually. Full pay range: $78,096–$122,149 annually.

Company

hirify.global develops small modular reactor (SMR) products and their associated engineering and licensing bases.

What you will do

• Build, update, and maintain fuel thermal-mechanical models for the SMR product design and licensing basis.
• Perform licensed fuel thermal-mechanical evaluations covering cladding strain, pellet-cladding mechanical interaction, gap conductance, dimensional changes, stress and strain behavior, and end-of-life margins.
• Prepare cycle-specific thermal-mechanical outputs for reload core design and safety analysis, maintaining consistency with thermal-hydraulic conditions, neutronic inputs, FSAR chapters, and approved topical reports.
• Interpret neutronics evaluations and assess power distributions, reactivity parameters, peaking factors, and other physics inputs affecting fuel performance.
• Perform core design and neutronics analyses for cycle design and reloads, including lattice physics generation, core loading optimization, and safety-related physics inputs.
• Prepare and verify engineering reports, calculations, studies, specifications, and other fuel performance and neutronics documentation while supporting cross-functional reviews and method development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear, Mechanical, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited four-year college or university.
• At least 3 years of full-time, directly relevant engineering experience, including fuel thermal-mechanical analysis and engineering design processes.
• Practical knowledge or experience with PWR reactor physics analyses is required.
• Experience in core design and neutronics is preferred; advanced engineering education is desirable.
• Must be eligible to work under Department of Energy 10 CFR Part 810.
• Ability to support quality assurance requirements under 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, 10 CFR 21, and NQA-1, and to travel nationally and locally as needed.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across Nuclear Fuels, Thermal Hydraulics, Code Development, Nuclear Methods, and other Engineering disciplines.
• Opportunities to develop technical depth in fuel performance, neutronics, thermal-hydraulic integration, and associated codes and methods.
• Work includes problem solving, technical troubleshooting, cross-functional reviews, and support for changing analysis priorities.
• Employee benefits are available through NuScale’s benefits program.