Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineering Intern - Summer 2025
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 looking for a highly motivated Nuclear Safety Analysis Engineering Intern to support the Safety Analysis team. In this role, you will collaborate with team members to perform detailed safety analyses that are critical to the development and licensing of the Kairos Power FHR. Your responsibilities will include conducting integral system postulated-event simulations, documenting key analysis outputs, and integrating safety analysis parameters into a centralized database. This work plays a vital role in supporting the reactor design process and licensing our advanced reactor. This internship provides a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of reactor safety analysis and licensing, contributing to the development of transformative nuclear technologies.
Responsibilities
- Perform integral system simulations of a first-of-a-kind advanced reactor
- Collaborate with team members to translate safety analysis methodologies into system-level simulations
- Develop model performance capabilities to enable postulated event calculations
- Develop proficiency in KP-SAM, an advanced system-level reactor simulation tool
- Analyze and post process calculation outputs to evaluate reactor behavior
- Document calculation outputs to contribute to the reactor license application
- Support the reactor design process by tracking aspects of Safety Analysis methods
Qualifications
- Currently a student pursuing MS or PhD Nuclear Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or a related field
- Proficiency with Python for scripting, data analysis, and plotting
- Proficiency in LaTeX for technical documentation
- Experience collaborating with version control tools, such as Git
- Familiarity with nuclear system codes, such as SAM or RELAP
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Effective communication and collaboration abilities
- Ability to work with highly collaborative team
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently
- Prioritizes and ensures safety of oneself 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
Environmental Conditions
- General office environment
- High-concentration, demanding, and fast-paced
The hourly range 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 may be used to determine your actual salary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, the market data for your work location, and a comparison to other employees already in the role.
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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
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Our mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal of dramatically improving people’s quality of life while protecting the environment.
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