Materials Computational Scientist Intern

Company Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

Job Summary

Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Intern with expertise in the development and application of numerical material models to metallic systems, structures and components. In this role, you will help with the development and deployment of advanced modeling and simulation tools to support the timely and cost effective delivery of major engineering programs and test systems. You will act as a key interface between the Materials and Modeling & Simulation teams.

Responsibilities

- Support the calibration, verification and validation (V&V) and uncertainty quantification (UQ) efforts associated with the development and deployment of the company’s structural material models;

- Participate to the deployment of the company’s material data management systems;

- Collaborate with the Materials team on the definition of test matrices aimed at improving overall goodness of fit and / or reducing modeling uncertainty;

- Publish engineering reports documenting

- Maintain knowledge of and assess compliance with applicable codes and standards

- Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

- Currently pursuing M.S. or PhD degree in Applied Mathematics, Materials Science, Mechanical/Nuclear Engineering, or equivalent

- Experience in one or more of the following areas: UQ, PDE-constrained and risk-averse optimization, optimization under uncertainty, verification and validation, inverse problems, model calibration, mesh generation and machine learning

- Experience developing scientific codes and softwares using C++, Fortran, python or similar programming language

- Experience in handling and analyzing large datasets

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

- Knowledge of spatial and time discretization techniques for partial differential equation (PDE) systems

- Working knowledge of data management programming languages (e.g. SQL)

- Experience/knowledge in Computational Materials Science or Mechanics preferred

- Excellent verbal, written communication/presentation, and interpersonal skills

- Ability to work with highly collaborative team

- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently

- Prioritizes and ensures safety of one self and others

- Ability to proactively collect, manage and transfer knowledge

- Ability to seek different and novel ways to create efficiencies when working on problems, challenges and issues

Physical Demands

- Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods

- Communicating with others to exchange information

Environmental Conditions

- General office environment

The hourly rate for this position is $32-34 for employees working onsite at our Alameda, CA headquarters. The range provided in this job posting represents the typical range or starting rate of candidates hired in California. Factors that maybe used to determine your actual salary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, ability and the market data for your work location, and a comparison to other employees already in the role.

About Our Benefits

We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below:

- Competitive compensation packages

- Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents

- Paid Vacation

- 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)

Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.

Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.

Note: You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy’s general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/appendix-A_to_part_810