Position Title: Senior Engineer, Plant Thermal Hydraulics Validation
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Senior Engineer, Plant Thermal Hydraulics Validation opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:- Support verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification activities for plant scale thermal-hydraulic analysis tools.
- Perform system-level steady-state and transient thermal-hydraulic simulations to evaluate model behavior, accuracy, and limitations.
- Interpret and apply experimental data from separate effects and integral test facilities to support model validation and closure of technical gaps.
- Define validation needs, develop test requirements, and collaborate closely with test engineering teams to ensure alignment between model gaps and experimental programs.
- Document V&V methodologies, model assumptions, validation results, and uncertainty analyses for internal design processes and regulatory submittals.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support plant design, safety analysis, and licensing workflows.
- Apply and improve company’s SQA and NQA1 modeling quality practices and ensure traceability and configuration control of analysis inputs, models, and results.
Job Qualifications:- Degree in Mechanical, Nuclear, Chemical Engineering, or similar field, with a minimum 6+ years of experience for level 10; advanced-degree equivalencies apply.
- Experience should include system-level thermal hydraulic analysis and code assessment for nuclear or complex energy systems.
- Demonstrated experience in code assessment, including model-to-test comparison, validation metric development, and uncertainty quantification.
- Hands on experience working with experimental thermal hydraulic data, including data analysis, uncertainty evaluation, and comparison against system level predictions.
- Experience with system analysis tools (e.g., RELAP5 3D, TRACE, SAS, or equivalent) applied to plant scale transient and steady-state evaluations.
- Strong foundation in thermal-fluid and reactor system behavior considerations relevant to advanced reactor designs.
- Experience with SQA and NQA 1 quality assurance practices for modeling workflows is highly preferred.
- Strong analytical thinking, clear technical communication, and the ability to manage multiple validation tasks in parallel.
Job Details:- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate Range: $56-$95/hr (Pay rates are approved based on candidate location, education and experience)
- Location: Bellevue, WA or 100% Remote
- Export control regulations require candidates to be a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Legal Permanent Resident, or of a protected person status.
Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.
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