Position Summary:

At Nusano, we are working to empower the world’s leading companies, health care providers, and innovators with the radioisotopes needed to advance cancer care. Our state-of-the-art facility in West Valley City, Utah will produce radioisotopes quickly, efficiently, and affordably. This will make desperately needed resources available to hospitals and cancer clinics around the world and offer those with life-threatening diseases hope for a healthier tomorrow.

Nusano is seeking a Nuclear Engineer /Nuclear Physicist to support the design, production, and testing of isotope production targets at a heavy-ion particle accelerator facility. Nusano has a patented one-of-kind source technology that enables milliamp particle currents of heavy ions. Our accelerator facility will produce active pharmaceutical ingredients for the detection and treatment of cancer, among many other diseases. Nusano targets present a unique challenge due to the short range of heavy ions in matter and large heat loads from the high currents. This position will be responsible for supporting engineering efforts towards the successful design of these targets. Additional responsibilities will include shielding design and assessment, target radioactive waste analysis, and target failure mode and recovery analysis.

What You'll Do:

• Support multidisciplinary target design projects.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to establish target requirements.
• Interface with mechanical engineering, material science, manufacturing, and radiochemistry specialists to ensure target design requirements are met.
• Yield and product purity calculations.
• Support CFD and FEA modeling efforts to estimate target survivability.
• Design and oversee key measurements necessary for providing quality inputs and benchmarks to target models where possible.
• Oversee the irradiation of target prototypes in beam and analysis of targets post irradiation.
  • Will include interfacing with external facilities pre-availability of Nusano’s beam.
• Calculate activation estimates and radiation shielding design.
• Develop target radioactive waste estimates.
• Develop target failure mode and recovery analysis.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Nuclear Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline with a minimum of 3 years relevant experience.
• Must possess a strong knowledge of engineering disciplines and solid knowledge of related disciplines including materials science and electro/mechanical systems.
• Demonstrated ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
• Proficiency with Monte Carlo codes (MCNP6, PHITS, and/or GEANT4).
• Familiarity with CFD and FEA calculations.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience with charged particle accelerators, targetry, and isotope production.
• Experience with radioactive material processing.
• Experience within a production engineering environment in the specification, development, and qualification production-based systems and equipment.
• Experience in requirements gathering and definition processes and tools.
• Experience with system requirements decomposition/system architecture design.
• Programming proficiency in Python and C languages.
• Experience with Attila4MC software.

Physical Requirements:

• Work to be conducted in an office environment, laboratories, and/or production environment.
• Ability to stoop/bend, squat/crouch, kneel, climb, work at/above shoulder height with both hands, use both hands/arms for strong grasp and either hand to turn or twist.
• Ability to work sitting and standing for extended periods, grasping/gripping, fine motor control with hands.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include near vision/acuity and visual color discrimination.
• Frequent use of a computer with repetitive use of keyboard and mouse.
• Ability to travel 2-8 weeks per year for experiments, visiting vendors, training, and attending conferences.

About Nusano:

No patient should be denied the cancer care they need simply because some options are in short supply or unavailable. Yet, all too often, this is what happens.

Nusano is a medical technology company that creates radioisotopes used to target and eliminate cancer cells with precision. Health care has used radioisotopes to diagnose and treat cancer and other diseases for decades. But, if supply does not keep up with demand, patients will lose out on the benefits of these lifesaving, proven tools.

Nusano’s patented technologies and methods are poised to transform radioisotope production and usher in an exciting new era in cancer care. Our state-of-the-art facility in West Valley City, Utah will produce radioisotopes quickly, efficiently, and affordably. This will make desperately needed resources available to hospitals and cancer clinics around the world and offer those with life-threatening diseases hope for a healthier tomorrow.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents
• Stock Options
• 401(K) Retirement Plan
• Company-paid life insurance & AD&D coverage
• Company-paid short-term disability coverage
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Dependent Care Reimbursement Account (DCRA)
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays