Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Requisition Id 16173 **Overview:** As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an impressive 80-year legacy of addressing the nation’s most pressing challenges. Our team is made up of over 7,000 dedicated and innovative individuals! Our goal is to create an environment where a variety of perspectives and backgrounds are valued, ensuring ORNL is known as a top choice for employment. These principles are essential for supporting our broader mission to drive scientific breakthroughs and translate them into solutions for energy, environmental, and security challenges facing the nation. The Advanced Engineering Technologies (AET) Group is seeking a computational fluid dynamics analyst to specialize in the use and development of computational simulation software for complex aerodynamic systems in the support of the nonproliferation mission space. This position will involve the creation and use of custom developed and off-the-shelf computational approaches in a research and development atmosphere. ## **Major Duties / Responsibilities:** - You, in collaboration with principal investigators and project management at ORNL, will participate in the development of simulation software to model complex system flows in processes relevant to the nuclear nonproliferation mission space. - You will be expected to be a user of the tools generated, participate in model validation activities, identify workflow improvements, and communicate issues to the development team for tool improvement. - You will also be involved in the analysis of ad hoc problem sets relevant to the nuclear nonproliferation mission space. - Performing well as part of a larger project team and being capable of developing simulation software in a collaborative development environment is expected. - In addition to these responsibilities, you will be a contributor to R&D projects and will be expected to report on and brief results throughout the lifecycle of the various projects