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TITLE: Safeguards / Non-Proliferation Engineer LOCATION: Bellevue, WA TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications - all for significant human health benefits. TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. Safeguards / Non-Proliferation Engineer TerraPower's Molten Chloride Fast Reactor (MCFR) project is commercializing the technology to operate a fast-spectrum, chloride salt cooled molten salt reactor. TerraPower and its partners are building on the foundation of the MCFR technology development program, including chloride salt separate effects tests, the MCFR Integrated Effects Test (IET), and the progress on the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE) project. The material fuel form and operational modes of a fast-spectrum, molten salt reactor, such as the MCFR, are outside the basis of established safeguards approaches. The material in a MCFR plant is continuously flowing and continuously changing composition due to breeding, depletion, and fuel salt polishing. Traditional item counting is not possible for MCFR reactors because the fuel salt is not quantized in discrete form. Addressing these inherent challenges and leveraging new opportunities are important parts of the development of domestic and international safeguards and non-proliferation approaches for the MCFR technology. Responsibilities: * Identify potential safeguards and non-proliferation challenges for an MCFR plant * Develop and evaluate safeguards and non-proliferation strategies to ensure that nuclear material is not being diverted from MCFR plants and that the plants are not being misused to produce undeclared nuclear material * Conduct background research considering beneficial emerging scientific and technical capabilities and approaches for safeguards and non-proliferation in MCFR plants * Help to create the next generation of safeguards concepts, instrumentation and technologies to minimize risks associated with advanced reactors, such as the MCFR * Integrate safeguards-by-design (SBD) and security by design (SeBD) into early-stage design and operational thinking for the MCFR demonstration reactor * Advocate for safeguards and non-proliferation requirements and constraints in MCFR design activities * Advise and educate MCFR team members about safeguards and non-proliferation considerations in plant design * Develop a consensus for novel safeguards and non-proliferation strategies for MCFR plant applications. This includes working closely with stakeholders across the MCFR consortium and domestic and international stakeholders (e.g. DOE NNSA, IAEA, and NRC) * Engage safeguards- and non-proliferation authorities t