Postdoctoral Appointee – Mechanical Engineering

About the role

The Applied Materials Division at Argonne National Laboratory seeks a Postdoctoral Appointee to develop and review design methods and models for high-temperature structural materials with applications in nuclear reactors and other energy systems. The appointee will collaborate with ANL staff to enhance methods for predicting the reliability of high-temperature structural components using continuum damage mechanics models and statistical reliability models.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to technical reports, conference papers, and journal publications
• Present findings at technical conferences
• Collaborate with ANL staff to review, validate, and enhance methods for predicting the reliability of high-temperature structural components
• Develop and validate constitutive models for high-temperature creep crack growth
• Work with engineering design codes such as the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, API standards, R5, RCC-MRx, or similar documents
• Model Argonne’s core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity, and teamwork

Requirements

• Recent or soon-to-be-completed PhD (typically completed within the last 0-5 years) in mechanical engineering, materials science, civil engineering, structural engineering, or a closely related field
• Experience with finite element simulations and developing constitutive models
• Knowledge of high temperature creep crack growth
• Knowledge of engineering design codes such as the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, API standards, R5, RCC-MRx, or similar documents
• Coding experience in Python
• Skilled in oral and written communications, with the ability to present research at all levels of organization

Qualifications

• Background in fracture mechanics-based reliability modeling
• Familiarity with the basic structure-property relations for metallic and ceramic materials
• Experience in engineering design, particularly for high temperature components
• Experience with the MOOSE finite element simulation framework

Skills

• Ability to model Argonne’s core values of impact, safety, respect, integrity, and teamwork

Benefits

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Pay

The expected hiring range for this position is $72,879.00-$121,465.00. Please note that the pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, business considerations, internal equity, and external market pay for comparable jobs.