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Nuclear Engineer – Senior
Company | Booz Allen |
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Location | McLean, VA, USA |
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Salary | $77600 – $176000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ years of experience conducting systems engineering or research developing and advancing physics-based models for atmospheric transport or nuclear weapon effects
- Experience with engineering research, reverse engineering analysis or characterizations, and facility and vulnerability assessments on nuclear capabilities
- Experience with M&S tools, including Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (HPAC), Vulnerability Assessment Protection Options (VAPO), Integrated Munitions Effects Assessment (IMEA), Nuclear Effects, or Probability of Damage Calculator (PD-CALC)
- Experience in nuclear science, nuclear fuel cycle, and nuclear and radiation effects such as EMP or HANE
- Experience with systems engineering approaches to nuclear weapon effects
- Knowledge of nuclear engineering and sub-disciplines of thermo-hydraulics, seismic or earthquake, physics, computational science, and fission reactor engineering
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering or Physics
- Certified Nuclear Professional Certification
Responsibilities
- Provide nuclear weapon effects subject matter expertise to client research and development (R&D) modeling and simulation (M&S) programs
- Apply nuclear weapon effects knowledge to support client nuclear technology effects, detection, and forensic research programs
- Support various multi-INT teams conducting hard target deconstruction, preparing technical collection concepts, developing R&D requirements, and preparing technical collection research reports.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience as a principal investigator
- Experience with DoD agencies
- Experience with military operations, nuclear command, control, communications, survivability, and hard target defeat
- Knowledge of systems engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
- Ability to develop weapons control technology
- Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Physics, or Nuclear Weapons Effects
- Professional Engineer Certification