Consequence Safety Methods & Analysis Engineer (Nuclear Safety)

Location: Bellevue, Washington, USA

Salary: $138,685–$208,027 per year; range specific to Washington State.

Company

hirify.global is a nuclear technology company developing advanced nuclear reactors, hybrid energy systems, and medical isotope applications.

What you will do

• Develop safety methodologies using a graded approach to EMDAP and establish assessment bases for evaluation models.
• Develop analytical and computational models with safety analysis engineers.
• Perform transient and accident analyses for the sodium-cooled fast reactor program.
• Analyze licensing basis events involving radionuclide release, mechanistic source terms, radiological consequences, and emergency planning zones.
• Establish core and SSC functional, performance, safety, and quality requirements with interdisciplinary engineering teams.
• Maintain analysis-of-record documentation, review engineering analyses, and support transient and accident analysis capabilities in the hirify.global software framework.

Requirements

• Master’s or Ph.D. in nuclear engineering or a relevant engineering discipline, plus at least 10 years of nuclear-field experience.
• Knowledge of nuclear thermal-hydraulics, fuel performance, reactor dynamics, accident source terms, and transient phenomena.
• Significant experience with transient and accident analysis codes.
• Familiarity with nuclear design, regulatory requirements, RG 1.233, EMDAP, RG 1.203, Appendix B to 10 CFR 50, and ASME NQA-1.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, modeling, reporting, communication, and multidisciplinary collaboration skills.
• Applicants are subject to U.S. Government export-control review; foreign-national eligibility may depend on obtaining export authorization.

Nice to have

• Experience interacting directly with the U.S. NRC on design and analysis methodology applications and licensing topical reports.
• Experience with source-term methods, radiological consequence codes, or SFR safety methods.
• Experience with other reactor designs and demonstrated ability to produce high-quality technical work.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position with comprehensive medical, vision, dental, life, disability, and wellness benefits.
• 401(k) plan and eligibility for discretionary short-term incentive payments.
• 21 days of annually accrued paid time off and 10 paid holidays.
• Parental leave, gender affirmation benefits, and relocation assistance.
• Professional and educational support opportunities.
• Travel requirement of approximately 0–10%; work includes extended sitting and standard office-based activities.