Radiation Shielding Engineer

The ocean is the largest undeveloped frontier on earth and the next chapter of abundant energy will be written at sea. Were building the infrastructure to power it.

Ocean Atomics is an American company designing licensing and assembling a standardized nuclear electric power plant and the surrounding support systems for maritime applications. We will install these plants on any vessel built to our nuclear-ready standards and will provide end-to-end sustainment in our planned nuclear lifecycle dockyard. We will help develop the licensed operators to unlock this new capability for your energy intensive application at sea. To move fast and to lead the creation of this new market we are leveraging the compact proven systems enabled by water-cooled reactors.

Scale nuclear energy. Power generations.

A maritime commons thriving with abundant economical modern and safe nuclear-powered activity built serviced and staffed by re-industrialized American shipyards and people.

Designs and analyzes radiation shielding throughout the reactor and ship to keep dose rates within limits for crew equipment and the public while developing shielding configurations that can be fabricated handled and installed efficiently within the constraints of shipyard construction.

This is a role were hiring at multiple levels (L1 through L4). The work is shared across levels; scope and accountability scale with experience.

This work suits someone who treats shielding design and analysis as an art as well as a science.

• Design and analyze radiation shielding for the reactor primary systems and surrounding compartments using transport Monte Carlo and hybrid methods.

• Perform activation dose-rate and source-term calculations across operating shutdown and accident conditions to verify compliance with occupational and public dose limits.

• Study historical ship and other unconventional shielding solutions and bring applied history into our design.

• Develop shielding arrangements optimized for shipboard installation: modular geometries manageable component weights access for handling equipment and compatibility with build and outfitting sequences.

• Coordinate with our structural layout and construction teams to integrate shielding into the ship arrangement and resolve weight space and installation trade-offs.

• Document shielding designs analyses and as-built configurations and support design reviews licensing and certification deliverables.

• Bachelors degree in nuclear engineering required (advanced degree preferred).

• Experience designing and analyzing radiation shielding for reactor or other high-radiation systems.

• Proficiency with radiation transport codes (MCNP SCALE etc.) and shielding/source-term methods (i.e. FW-CADIS).

• Familiarity with shipboard or other space- and weight-constrained installation environments

Dont meet every bullet Wed still like to hear from you. If youre excited by the mission and most of this resonates apply.

Export control notice

This role involves access to information subject to U.S. export control laws including unclassified nuclear technology governed by the U.S. Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. Depending on a candidates status access may require DOE authorization which Ocean Atomics may apply for. Any offer is contingent on your ability to work in compliance with these requirements. We evaluate all applicants regardless of citizenship or national origin except where required by law.

Every industry on Earth needs scalable clean energy and the ocean is the ideal place to unlock it. Joining Ocean Atomics means building real lasting infrastructure the kind that powers generations. The world needs abundant energy. Lets make it happen.

We are committed to a workplace free of discrimination and do not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations; if you need an accommodation during the application process contact

Required Experience:

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