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At NINE  you can find yourself surrounded by a friendly, international environment filled with innovation and technical cooperation.

Engineering is the heart of our work, particularly the nuclear sector in which we are highly specialized through several contracts with stakeholders around the world.

We are looking for engineers and collaborators who are willing to contribute to the nuclear energy industry with their dedication, innovation, commitment.

 

WHAT IS THE PROCESS FOR RECRUITING?

Engineering graduates interested in working with us should submit their resume after the opening of a vacancy or through a spontaneous application to our Administration department. Following the pre-selection process, on-site or Video-calls interviews will be held.

You can apply for regular positions as well as internship opportunities at the company. Search our positions to find the right opportunity for you!

The company is looking for experienced nuclear engineers to be included in its staff for the headquarters in Lucca, Italy. Possession of a Master of Science degree is strictly required; holding a PhD is considered an asset.

 

Nuclear Engineer - Plant Thermal Hydraulics area (Ref. TH)

Number of open positions: 3

Contract: full-time permanent

Working place: NINE HQs, Lucca (Italy)

Salary: consistent with the level of experience

Requirements:

    • Possession of a Master of Science degree is strictly required; holding a PhD is considered an asset.
    • 2-5 years of experience in Thermal-Hydraulic analysis of water cooled Nuclear Power Plants.
    • Proficient capability to use system thermal-hydraulic simulation codes, e.g. RELAP.
    • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Tasks:

    • System thermal-hydraulic analysis to assess the phenomena occurring during postulated accidents in nuclear installations (power plants, research reactors, spent fuel pools and experimental facilities).
    • Performing safety analyses by adopting either conservative or best-estimate plus uncertainty approach.
    • Validation of system thermal-hydraulic codes and models against experimental data.
    • Writing and reviewing technical report.
    • Participation to meetings with customers.

 

Nuclear Engineer - Plant Thermal Hydraulics area (Ref. CFD)

Number of open positions: 2

Contract: full-time permanent

Working place: NINE HQs, Lucca (Italy)

Salary: consistent with the level of experience

Requirements:

    • Possession of a Master of Science degree is strictly required; holding a PhD is considered an asset.
    • 2-5 years of experience in Thermal-Hydraulic analysis and design of thermal-hydraulic systems.
    • Knowledge of single-phase and two-phase thermal-fluid dynamics.
    • Knowledge of CFD simulation code, e.g. CFX, FLUENT, OpenFOAM.
    • Knowledge of system thermal-hydraulic simulation code, e.g. RELAP is an asset
    • Previous experience in ITER systems is an asset.
    • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Tasks:

    • CFD analysis of water, gas and lead-lithium flows to e.g. predict flow distribution and mixing in complex domains, estimate pressure losses, address fluid-solid heat transfer.
    • Perform analysis and provide critical interpretation of the simulation results
    • Conceptual, preliminary and final design of thermal-hydraulic systems and components.
    • Writing and reviewing technical report.
    • Participation to meetings with customers.

 

Nuclear/Mechanical Engineer – Core Behavior Area (Ref. MECH)

Number of open positions: 2

Contract: full-time permanent

Working place: NINE HQs, Lucca (Italy)

Salary: consistent with the level of experience

Requirements:

    • Possession of a Master of Science degree is strictly required; holding a PhD is considered an asset.
    • 2-5 years of experience in Structural Mechanic analysis (linear and non-linear).
    • Capability to perform advanced computational simulations in a high regulated environment.
    • Knowledge of International codes (e.g. ASME and RCCM)
    • Knowledge of Ansys platform (Mechanical and embedded CAD software)
    • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Tasks:

    • Engineering activities related to design and analysis of mechanical loads on systems and components including pressure vessels.
    • Simulation of complex systems in nuclear environment.
    • Validation of calculated results.
    • Writing and reviewing technical report.
    • Participation to meetings with customers.

 

Nuclear Engineer - Decommissioning and Waste Management (Ref. DECO)

Number of open position: 1

Contract: full-time permanent

Working place: NINE HQs, Lucca (Italy) and/or Varese (Italy)

Salary: consistent with the level of experience

Requirements:

    • Possession of a Master of Science degree is strictly required; holding a PhD is considered an asset.
    • 1-5 years of experience in Decommissioning and Waste Management activities.
    • Capability to identify design solutions in over-constrained scenarios.
    • Capability to face complex legislative frameworks.
    • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Tasks:

    • Engineering activities related to radioactive waste management, management of nuclear materials and decommissioning of shutdown nuclear facilities.
    • Decommissioning activities of nuclear installations including experimental reactors, laboratories, radioactive waste management plants and storages.
    • Development and substantiation of methodologies introducing new/innovative technologies.
    • Waste management chain, waste treatment and conditioning.
    • Radiation shielding.
    • Radiological accidents, consequences and mitigation.
    • Licensing aspects.
    • Writing and reviewing technical report.
    • Participation to meetings with customers.

 

Nuclear Engineer – Core Behavior Area (Ref. FP)

Number of open position: 1

Contract: full-time permanent

Working place: NINE HQs, Lucca (Italy)

Salary: consistent with the level of experience

Requirements:

    • Possession of a Master of Science degree is strictly required; holding a PhD is considered an asset.
    • 1-3 years of experience in Fuel Performance analysis.
    • Capability to perform computational simulations in a high regulated environment.
    • Knowledge of in-reactor fuel and related materials behavior
    • Knowledge of Fuel Performance code (e.g. TRANSURANUS)
    • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Tasks:

    • Engineering activities related to analysis of fuel performance in normal and accident conditions.
    • Perform validation activities by simulating experiments and comparison with code results.
    • Critical interpretation of code simulations
    • Development and integration of specific modeling features into computational platform.
    • Writing and reviewing technical report.
    • Participation to meetings with customers.

 

Nuclear Engineer - Severe Accident area (Ref. SA)

Number of open position: 1

Contract: full-time permanent

Working place: NINE HQs, Lucca (Italy)

Salary: consistent with the level of experience

Requirements:

    • Possession of a Master of Science degree is strictly required; holding a PhD is considered an asset.
    • 2-5 years of experience in the analysis of Severe Accidents of Nuclear Power Plants.
    • Proficient capability to use severe accidents simulation codes, e.g. MELCOR, ASTEC.
    • Professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

Tasks:

    • Simulation of severe accident scenarios and related analysis of in-vessel, ex-vessel and containment phenomena.
    • Support the design and the assessment of EOP and SAMG.
    • Assessment of Fission Product distribution in the containment.
    • Assessment of the source term.
    • Writing technical report.
    • Participation to meetings with the customer.

 

Software Architect/Experienced Web Developer Position

Number of open position: 1

Contract: full-time permanent

Working place: NINE HQs, Lucca (Italy)

Salary: consistent with the level of experience

Requirements:

    • Bachelor’s degree in a field related to software.
    • 6+ years industry experience.

We are looking to hire an experienced web developer/DevOps Engineer with experience developing large web applications to facilitate the scaling of our business and web application.  The position is not focused on backend or frontend specifically, but more on architecting, designing, and scaling highly technical web applications that perform computationally intensive calculations to support Nuclear Safety Analysis.  The applicant will interface with domain experts as well as frontend and backend developers and must be able to communicate with them effectively.  Tasks will include Dev. Ops, architecture development/documentation, software development, testing, configuring deployments, cyber security, develop technology roadmaps, etc.  Applicant must have a strong understanding of software architectures and attribute driven development especially in the context of web applications and be able to debug/understand performance issues so solutions can be developed to enable more efficient scaling of the software.  Additionally, the applicant must be able to articulate the value of software changes to management and other developers.

Technology Experience:

  • Databases (relational, document-based, NoSQL)
  • Operating Systems (Windows/Linux)
  • Cluster technologies
  • Cloud servers (AWS/Azure/etc.)
  • Docker and/or other container technologies
  • LDAP
  • Messaging services (Rabbit MQ, etc.)
  • Web servers (Apache HTTP, etc.)

Screening Questions:

  1. Tell me about a time that you’ve had to scale up a web application.  How many users?  What kinds of problems did you encounter and how did you solve them?
  2. Tell me about a time when you’ve had to select a relational or non-relational database (NoSQL) for a particular application. Why did you select one over the other?
  3. Describe your experience leading a team of software developers. What challenges did you encounter and how did you handle them?

Describe your general approach to designing the software architecture for a new product.

Interested candidate is invited to submit his Curriculum Vitae to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. citing the reference associated with the position of interest.