Group Leader Liquid Metal Engineering

We are looking for a Group leader of Liquid Metal (LM) Engineering to take part in the technical activities and oversee a team dedicated to thinking, designing and building LM systems, comprising a mechanical engineer, a control engineer, and a thermohydraulic engineer. The key to success lies in seamless integration with both the Experimental and the Numerical Liquid Metal Magneto-Hydro-Dynamics teams.

Your main responsibilities will be:

*Mechanical Design:

• Lead and actively contribute to the design and modelling of new mechanical parts, equipment, or machines, considering defined technical and financial constraints.
• Oversee the creation of detailed CAD models, collaborating closely with the team to integrate input and output data for each project.

*Control Systems Management:

• Supervise and possibly contribute to the development and implementation of control feedback loops to stabilize liquid metal flows using electromagnetic forces.
• Coordinate testing, analysis, and fine-tuning of control systems, selecting suitable sensors, actuators, and data acquisition systems.

*Thermohydraulic Engineering:

• Manage research, design, and integration of thermohydraulic systems for our liquid metal loops and future magnetic confinement fusion reactor.
• Coordinate experimental and numerical analysis activities to propose thermohydraulic concepts, model conjugate heat transfer in liquid metal loops, and validate the performance of the selected solutions.

*Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Modeling:

• Multiphysics numerical simulations of supplied CAD models, covering areas such as structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), heat transfer, etc.
• Ensure the update and maintenance of simulation results

*Team management:

• Be the ambassador of Renaissance Fusion's vision within his/her team, and promote its culture, values (speed, simplicity, fantastic realism, constructive interference and unified force) and policies.
• Encourage collaboration at all levels of the organization.
• Ensure that his/her team is motivated to achieve its objectives.
• Take an active role in talent development.
• Comply with and enforce the highest Health, Environment and Safety standards within her/his team.

*Scientific outcome

• Coordinate the writing, review and approval of patents and scientific papers.
• Prepare scientific reports (presentations, posters, etc.) and represent Renaissance Fusion to scientific conferences and workshops.
• Remain on the lookout for any scientific developments in his/her field of expertise.

You are the ideal profile if:

*Education and professional experience

• PhD or Master’s degree + equivalent experience in mechanical engineering or related field
• 8+ years of experience in machine design and/or FEM simulations of complex systems and in manufacturing
• Experience as a technical leader/coordinator and/or project management

*Language requirements

• Fluent in English (C1/C2)
• Knowledge (B1 or higher) of French is a plus

*Technical competencies

• Mastering CAD design software such as Inventor, SolidWorks or similar
• Experience with ANSYS, COMSOL Multiphysics or other finite element software, with a good understanding of the mathematical background of such tool
• Knowledge of numerical modelling of scientific or industrial relevance
• Coding in Python, Matlab or other programming language is a plus

At Renaissance Fusion, we value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants equally for employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of origin; gender; morals, sexual orientation; sexual identity; age; marital status; pregnancy; genetic characteristics; actual or assumed membership or non-membership of an ethnic group, nation or race; political opinions; trade union or mutualist activities; religious beliefs; physical appearance; family name; place of residence; state of health; disability.