Compute Software and Infrastructure Intern - Summer 2025 - Remote

Overview

Kairos Power is a new nuclear energy technology and engineering company whose mission is to enable the world’s transition to clean energy, with the ultimate goal to dramatically improve people’s quality of life while protecting the environment. This goal will be accomplished through the commercialization of the fluoride-salt-cooled, high-temperature reactor (FHR) that can be deployed with robust safety, affordable costs, and flexible operation to accommodate the expansion of variable renewables.

In Short

• Collaborate with nuclear and other non-software engineers to define and develop software projects based on their needs for software tools that support the primary mission of the company.
• Understand and implement diverse and complex methods across computational modeling and infrastructure applications.
• Develop novel and innovative workflows to achieve the needs of modeling and simulation teams.
• Develop, test, and maintain code that meets internal software quality compliance and best practices in terms of readability, scalability, and performance.
• Assist in the development and enhancement of CI/CD processes to support efficient code development and deployment.
• Contribute to the documentation of code, ensuring clarity for current and future team members.
• Review existing code and recommend optimizations or refactoring where necessary.
• Assist in developing software standards which other teams will use to develop and deploy code.
• Manage and support various technical issues submitted to the modeling and simulation ticketing system.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a Master of Science or Ph.D. program related to physics, engineering, mathematics, or computational science.
• Strong and demonstrable experience in computational modeling, scientific computing, and software development using multiple languages and tools such as Python, C++, git, bash, ssh, etc.
• Experience in environment management and containerization with tools such as conda, and docker.
• Familiarity with common software concepts such object-oriented programming, polymorphism, data structures, and algorithms.
• Familiarity with modern coding best practices, including but not limited to version control, CI/CD, code review, and automated testing.
• Code Documentation: Familiar with tools such as Doxygen or Sphinx.
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS or other cloud-based platforms is desired.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work with highly collaborative team.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• Medical, dental and vision benefits for employees and their dependents
• Paid Vacation
• 401(k) and pre-tax health insurance, dependent care, and commuter benefits (FSA)