Chemical Engineer

Start on/after**:April 15, 2023**
If a potentially good or excellent match, we will contact you within 1 week of applying.
Renaissance Fusion is the first Magnetic Confinement Fusion company in the EU. We are building the first net-energy producing stellarator by combining proprietary innovations in modular design, the manufacturing of next-generation High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) magnets, and liquid walls. We are forming a team of the brightest, most driven scientists and engineers to realize and commercialize our non-fusion HTS magnets within 2 years, and fusion magnets and integrated fusion solutions within 10 years.
Our team is young, agile, international and based in the exciting city of Grenoble, by the French Alps.
**Responsibilities**
**Individual research responsibilities**
- Identify the materials to be used in in-house experiments and fusion power plants, which are compatible with liquid lithium flows at high temperatures
- Identify the materials to be used in in-house experiments and fusion power plants, which are compatible with liquid lithium flows at high temperatures
- Design and operate experiments to conduct static and dynamic liquid lithium corrosion tests on structural materials
- Characterize corrosion products and changes in the microstructure of samples
- Carry out physical-chemical measurements to determine the phase transitions and precipitation of lithium hydride, lithium deuteride and lithium tritide
- Setup and sustain external collaborations with academic and/or industrial partners on corrosion topic.

**Responsibilities as a team member**
- Aid mechanical engineers and experimentalists in the design and construction of stellarator parts and in-house experiments (choice of materials, surface treatments, safety regulations )

**Qualifications -essential**:

- PhD degree or equivalent in materials science, chemical engineering, metallurgy or related field
- 3+ years experience in liquid metal chemistry
- 3+ years hands on experience in surface characterization: microscopy (optical, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Transmission Electron Microscopy ), spectroscopy (X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy )
- Physical metallurgy, crystallography, surface chemistry, kinetics, mass transfers, reduction-oxidation
- Written and oral communication skills. Ability to explain complicated concepts clearly and concisely.
- Organizational and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, curiosity and willingness to learn.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team.

**Qualifications -desirable**:

- Experience with health and safety requirements for the handling of flammable/hot/toxic solids, liquids and gases in general, and alkali in particular
- Experience in isotopic separation
- Corrosion modeling and thermodynamic modeling
- Familiarity with materials and processes used in the nuclear sector (fission and/or fusion)

**Qualified and interested?