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Kairos Power

Lead Mechanical Engineer (m/w/d)

加入Kairos Power,担任位于田纳西州奥克里奇的首席机械工程师。专注于远程操作特殊组件,领导核能模块系统的设计。享受竞争力薪资和医疗福利。
Kairos Power
Kairos Power
田园市,田纳西州,美国   远程   全职  UTC-05:00

Kairos Power

公司概况

Kairos Power

美国加利福尼亚州阿拉梅达

2016年

商业模式

核能技术

Kairos Power专注于开发先进的核反应堆技术,旨在提供安全、经济和可持续的能源解决方案。他们的技术包括低温熔盐反应堆,旨在提高核能的安全性和效率。

他们的收入主要来自于政府资助、研发合同以及与其他能源公司和机构的合作项目。

地点与地理

Kairos Power在美国运营,主要集中在加利福尼亚州。他们的技术和项目也在全球范围内受到关注,尤其是在寻求可持续能源解决方案的国家。

公司文化

Kairos Power的使命是通过创新的核能解决方案来推动全球能源转型。他们重视安全、可持续性和技术创新,致力于为未来的能源需求提供可靠的解决方案。

公司鼓励开放的沟通和协作,创造一个支持员工成长和发展的环境。他们重视团队合作,致力于建立一个多元化和包容性的工作场所。

Kairos Power提供多种员工发展机会,包括培训、职业发展计划和技术研讨会,以帮助员工提升技能和职业生涯。

活动与项目

Kairos Power目前正在开发其低温熔盐反应堆的原型,旨在展示其技术的安全性和经济性。他们还参与多个与政府和行业合作的研究项目,以推动核能技术的进步。

他们的创新包括新型的反应堆设计和安全系统,旨在提高核能的可接受性和应用范围。Kairos Power致力于通过技术创新来解决能源危机。

Kairos Power在其运营中强调可持续性,致力于减少环境影响并提高能源效率。他们的技术旨在利用可再生能源和减少温室气体排放。

职业机会

Kairos Power通常招聘工程师、科学家和项目经理等职位,以支持其研发和运营团队。他们寻找具有创新思维和团队合作精神的人才。

公司提供竞争力的薪资和福利,包括健康保险、退休计划和灵活的工作安排,以吸引和留住优秀人才。

联系信息

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最后更新于 2025-03-27 | 报告问题

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.

Kairos Power is seeking a highly motivated Lead Mechanical Engineer focused on Remote Handling Special Components with expertise in modular component and equipment design for remotely operated systems. In this role, you will lead design, demonstration, and iterative development of hardware technologies enabling rapid assembly of reactor system components with enhanced maintenance and inspection capability. This Lead's responsibilities will mesh Remote Handling operations into modular design with influence on system touchpoints to enable efficient handling. Additionally, you will lead team members and mentor junior engineers building foundational expertise through design and test of prototype systems.

Responsibilities

Production Component Development

  • Applies lifecycle design practices, including maintainability, inspectability, and decommissioning considerations, during component development
  • Acts as a technical liaison with vendors and suppliers to ensure design feasibility and manufacturability of specialized components
  • Develops interface control documentation for integration of remote handling components into larger plant systems
  • Develops structured test protocols, defines acceptance criteria, and coordinates formal test readiness reviews with QA and systems engineering
  • Provides technical support to project scheduling and cost estimating teams to ensure design activities are adequately represented in project plans
  • Implements design revisions based on test outcomes or operational feedback
  • Ensures compliance with nuclear industry regulations, safety standards, and applicable codes
  • Implements robust risk assessments and reliability analyses for heated and mechanical support components
  • Contributes to design basis documentation and regulatory submittals
  • Maintains up-to-date design documentation in accordance with configuration management practices and digital engineering standards

Remote Handling Solutions

  • Develops remote handling techniques and processes that enable component repairs with minimal impact on plant operations
  • Leads conceptual reviews and physical demonstrations of remote handling approaches through iterative design, build, and test cycles
  • Collaborates with engineering and remote handling teams to shape online and offline reactor maintenance strategies

Testing and Validation

  • Tracks testing and demonstration opportunities that align with reactor schedules, and communicate proposals to related teams and leadership
  • Conceptualizes integrated solutions supported by execution plans for rapid demonstration
  • Participates in inspections, quality checks, pre-commissioning evaluations, installations, shakedown, tuning, hot commissioning, and other activities to verify performance

Collaboration

  • Collaborates with Engineering Teams, Laboratory and Shop Staff, Materials Teams, and industry partners to organize inputs and charter accelerated projects for novel hardware systems

Engineering Reports

  • Publishes engineering reports documenting design details, test results, and lessons learned

Team Building

  • Shares knowledge, experience, and methods with colleagues to foster a high-performing team
  • Mentor junior engineers in design and testing of prototype systems

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

  • S. degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
  • 10+ years of experience developing and delivering hardware for uniquely demanding applications
  • Expertise in high-temperature systems
  • Experience integrating mechanical and electrical systems for remote operations is desirable
  • Experience with molten salt or advanced reactor systems is a plus
  • Familiarity with data acquisition platforms (e.g., LabVIEW, MATLAB, Python) is a plus
  • Experience in nuclear, aerospace, defense, or other highly regulated industries is desirable
  • Proven team player with excellent verbal, written communication/presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • Knowledge of radiation effects on materials and material degradation in extreme environments is desirable
  • Strong background in low voltage electrical systems, optical systems, and efficient packaging
  • Familiarity with design and operation of pressure systems and fluid conveyance systems
  • Broad experience with power electronics such as servos, motors, electromagnets
  • Familiarity with non-destructive inspection and analysis techniques
  • Working knowledge of ASME codes and piping standards is a plus
  • Experience as a technical mentor
  • Ability to work within a 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

Physical Conditions

  • Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, scissor lifts, articulated boom lifts, etc.
  • Setting up and transferring temporary structures (e.g. scaffolding, ladders)
  • Moving self in different positions to accomplish tasks in various environments including tight and confined spaces
  • Remaining in a stationary position, often standing, or sitting for prolonged periods
  • Moving about to accomplish tasks or moving from one worksite to another
  • Adjusting, moving, transporting, installing, positioning, or removing objects up to 30 pounds in all directions
  • Communicating with others to exchange information
  • Use of various hand tools

Environmental Conditions

  • General office environment
  • Assessing the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned
  • High-concentration, demanding, and fast-paced
  • Noisy environments
  • Small and/or enclosed spaces
  • Elevated heights

Safety and PPE

  • Reading and interpreting hazardous warning signs
  • Reporting issues with equipment or unsafe conditions
  • Wearing proper PPE, to include face mask, face shields, gloves, safety shoes
  • Manipulating, cleaning, and disposal of hazardous materials
  • Color identification: detecting, distinguishing, recognizing and identifying colors

Travel

  • 25% travel may be required

Additional Requirements

  • Occasionally requires schedule flexibility
  • Occasionally requires extended hours to support launch and critical project timelines

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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2025年5月26日

全职

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2025年5月26日

远程

Kairos Power

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