Neutronics Engineer

The role

You will perform neutronics analysis for the Alpha stellarator design. This includes carrying out simulations and automating workflows to support licensing and operational safety.

What you will do

• Perform neutronics analysis using OpenMC and DAGMC
• Contribute to the integration of neutronics analysis into automated pipelines
• Perform verification and validation by comparing simulation results to other codes and experimental data
• Construct simulation ready CAD with CadQuery and CSG geometries
• Develop in-house neutronics workflows
• Contribute to open-source codes for nuclear data processing, CAD conversion, meshing, and particle transport simulations

Required qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree in nuclear physics, nuclear engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience in processing nuclear data
• Experience with OpenMC, DAGMC, CadQuery, Gmsh for neutronics analysis
• Experience designing neutron and gamma shielding
• Experienced Python programmer using software development tools such as Git

Nice to have

• Programming in C++
• Experience with computation in cloud or HPC environments involving numerical simulations

Before you apply

• Recruiter Interview (30-60 min)
• Technical Screening (30 min)
• Technical Panel (3x60 min)
• CEO call (30 min)

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player, as well as the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.