Senior Turbomachinery Engineer

Senior Turbomachinery Engineer  

Radiant is seeking a highly motivated Senior Turbomachinery Engineer to own the high-pressure, high-temperature helium circulator through immediate testing and integration for the Kaleidos Demonstration Unit and long-term design and development for Kaleidos Production. You will be responsible for turbomachinery trade studies, component selection, mechanical design, rotodynamic analysis, hardware assembly, system testing, and integration. You will develop critical hardware at the center of the reactor primary loop while considering performance, reliability, manufacturability, mass, and cost. The ideal candidate is experienced in building early concept turbomachinery components through production and is excited about our vision to build Earth’s first mass-produced nuclear reactors. 

Responsibilities & Duties: 

• Design, build, and test helium circulator turbomachinery for primary loop system.
• Own end-to-end engineering of turbomachinery components, while managing turbomachinery component suppliers and enabling on-time hardware delivery  
• Perform complex thermal and fluids analysis to drive design decisions, verify system performance, and ensure structural integrity using first-principle hand calculations and finite element tools.  
• Perform trade studies to optimize system and meet program requirements.   
• Develop and execute manufacturing/assembly instructions and test plans.    
• Create and manage a Bill-Of-Materials (BOM).    
• Own subassembly design, manufacturing, and test schedules.  
• Own risk analysis (FMEA) for subsystems.  
• Collect requirements, provide expertise and feedback to engineers in other functional areas via clear, constructive communication.   

Required Qualifications & Skills   

• B.S. in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering from accredited university.  
• 5+ years of engineering experience in turbomachinery design, build, and operation.  

Desired Qualifications & Skills   

• Strong knowledge of turbomachinery design and build principles.  
• Demonstrated experience in owning end-to-end hardware development cycle, from concept, part design, manufacturing, through build and testing.  
• Proficiency in fluids modeling of compressible and incompressible flow.  
• Experience with turbomachinery manufacturing and design for manufacturability  
• Takes extreme ownership of work and a high degree of responsibility.   
• Excellent communication across multidisciplinary teams.   
• Prior nuclear experience in not required for this role.   

Additional Requirements:

• Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to achieve company goals.
• Must work 100% onsite at El Segundo HQ.