TITLE: Scientific Compute Principal 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. Scientific Compute Engineer Principal The Scientific Compute Principal Engineer is responsible for partnering with internal customers who are leveraging complex advanced physics and engineering applications for research purposes, with the goal to provide a best-in-class end-user experience through resilient, capable platforms and solutions.Role will provide technical oversight for the infrastructure requirements, technical support, vendor management and training provided to users of these resources for advanced nuclear research. This position requires a candidate who will promote collaboration and cooperation while working across engineering disciplines. Candidate should be familiar with advanced physics and engineering applications and current on how they are deployed and leveraged at enterprise scale. Bring your industry, research expertise and deep knowledge of the "state-of-the-art" in your field to challenge existing assumptions and introduce new approaches and processes. Responsibilities Assess technology needs and guide, influence and inspire adoption of enterprise compute technologies. Track the health of critical science pipelines and workflows that depend on our infrastructure. Determine the dependencies, bottlenecks, and hurdles that must be addressed to achieve operational excellence and work with TerraPower team and external entities to achieve excellence. Partner with Principal System Engineer to define and execute roadmaps. Assist with gathering data for new feature, system, and/or advanced computing requirements from key stakeholders. Provide timely estimates for implementation delivery. Anticipate risks when planning and defining mitigation options. Proactively collaborate across discipline groups for efficient use of company expertise, including hardware, software, and algorithms. Work across teams to ensure effective decisions and execution. Document work to leverage results more easily across teams. Provide technical leadership and expertise to TerraPower's advanced computing user community in the computational aspects of their research through intensive consulting, training, and general support activities, all aiming at integrating technologies into research. Connect with experts internally. Create understanding within team to foster collaboration. Acquire expert knowledge. Apply advanced concepts to influence feature needs and drive action toward solutions. Seek out most recent advancements (e