MCFR Electrical / I&C Engineer, System Design

Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States

TITLE:                MCFR Electrical / I&C Engineer, System Design

LOCATION:       Bellevue, WA          

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes.  TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.

MCFR Electrical I&C Engineer, System Design

TerraPower’s Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) program is commercializing the technology to operate a fast spectrum, chloride salt cooled molten salt reactor. TerraPower’s work focuses on a fast neutron spectrum to minimize the reactivity impact of fission products and avoid the need for online reprocessing that is required in thermal spectrum molten salt reactor concepts.

This role will act as an Electrical / I&C Engineer for various projects within the MCFR program – including the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) and Integrated Effects Test (IET). Responsibilities include instrument and control system design, prototype instrumentation development and testing, and support of commissioning activities.

Responsibilities:

•    Support the design of Electrical / I&C systems from systems and sub-system functional requirements through final design.

•    Develop and review system- and component/instrument-level specifications and scopes of work.

•    Own integration with mechanical and structural components and equipment mounting.

•    Provide technical direction and guidance to engineers in applicable nuclear and non-nuclear related design standards.

•    Specify and describe suitability of instrumentation measurement techniques for use in molten salt reactor related technologies, including analysis of measurement range, response time, and measurement accuracy.

•    Develop and review technical design documents, such as System Requirements Documents, System Design Descriptions, Interface Control Documents, Engineering Design Specifications, etc..

•    Create and manage drawing packages of system and sub-system designs, including but not limited to P&IDs, single line diagrams, Cable and raceway design, system architecture drawings, control logic and loop diagrams, instrument installation drawings, calculations, & etc..

•    Generate integrated design package for assigned systems and sub-systems.

•    Support oversight of related supplier contracts by ensuring delivery of data and other deliverables to meet TerraPower requirements, as well as coordination and performance of technical reviews of deliverables.

•    Support continuous learning and application of nuclear industry best practices in order to maintain the highest quality of engineering design and proactively identify process change/enhancement opportunities.

•    Integrate with work of other disciplines, engineers, scientists, and subject matter experts.