Cycle Performance Engineer - Turbomachinery

The role

You will perform cycle performance modeling for turbomachinery. You will work with cross-functional team members to define high efficiency and highly producible cycle designs.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain a thermodynamic model of the power conversion system
• Aggregate, interpret and integrate the contributions of component owners into the overall cycle model
• Partner with turbomachinery, secondary flow, and heat exchanger owners to input their component performance into the system model
• Define instrumentation plans to calibrate the cycle model to tested results
• Evaluate system level trades to drive the cycle to the optimal business outcome

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• 3 years experience in analyzing thermodynamic cycles in a thermodynamic solver (NPSS, Aspen, GateCycle, Flownex, EES, etc.)

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• Experience with modeling closed cycles
• Test experience with turbomachinery
• Experience with supercritical C02
• Experience analyzing turbomachinery at a component design level

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
• Generous PPE stipend
• High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
• Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
• Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
• The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up

Before you apply

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder)

About the company

Valar Atomics aims to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable. Their first pilot plant will be in Orangeville, Utah.