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Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Reactor Structures
Forge Atomics
El Segundo, USA
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Onsite
USD 140000-190000 yearly / year
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Forge Atomics
Humanity faces two critical challenges: securing reliable energy and aggressively lowering our environmental impact. At Forge, we believe nuclear fission is the key to solving both at once. Today Forge is developing the technology to rapidly scale the deployment of nuclear fission.
Sr. Mechanical Engineer, Reactor Structures
As a structures engineer at Forge, you'll be responsible for designing and building reactor hardware such as the pressure vessel, containment, and structural elements for Ember, our pilot 25 MWe reactor. These designs must withstand the extreme temperature and pressure environments of our reactor while meeting regulatory requirements and being optimized for cost, mass, and manufacturability. Sr. Structures Engineers will own the most complex structural hardware while setting the technical bar for the structures engineering team. Successful candidates will have previously demonstrated extreme ownership in delivering mechanical systems in fast-paced, high-reliability environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and test pressure vessels, containment structures, seismic isolation, and secondary structures for Ember, our pilot nuclear reactor
- Carry out trade studies for optimal structural materials, balancing cost, mass, strength, corrosion resistance, and manufacturability
- Validate reliability of designs with rigorous testing: thermal cycling, pressure cycling, shock, vibration, radiation embrittlement, and corrosion. Design experiments to ground analysis, develop fixturing, and create technical reports based on results
- Work with manufacturers to understand process limitations and adapt designs for lead times and manufacturability
- Collaborate with peers from different systems to develop designs that balance cost, efficiency, and deployment logistics
- Support the assembly of your hardware in the factory, witness your designs being brought to life daily, and watch them power an abundant, clean future
- Provide training and mentorship to junior structures engineers, setting the standard for technical rigor across the team
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