Head, Virtual Engineering
Company: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Location: Princeton
Posted on: January 25, 2023
Job Description:
Overview Are you interested in joining the worlds brightest
talent in solving some of the worlds grandest scientific challenges
of the 21st century? Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is
doing just that! Whether it be through science, engineering,
technology or professional services, every team member has an
opportunity to make their mark on our world. PPPL aims to attract
and support people with a rich variety of backgrounds, interests,
experiences, and cultural viewpoints. We are committed to equity,
diversity, and inclusion and believe that each member of our team
contributes to our scientific mission in their own unique way. Come
join us!The Engineering Directorate at PPPL is a multidisciplinary
team focused on developing the engineering designs for and
advancing the state-of-the-art for magnetic confinement plasma
physics research devices around the world. We specialize in
diagnostics, high-field magnets, power electronics, heating
sources, and plasma facing components for nuclear fusion
experiments at PPPL and collaborator facilities world-wide.
Mechanical (solid mechanics and fluid dynamics), electromagnetic,
thermal, material, and radiation effects and engineering challenges
are routinely encountered simultaneously in PPPL engineering
projects. PPPL engineers develop novel solutions to the engineering
challenges of fusion and plasma physics and collaborate with the
Research and Computation teams to develop new research directions,
core capabilities, and experimental devices. The complex
coupled-physics nature of fusion devices presents truly unique
challenges to the design and optimization of these devices. The
ability to fully model and simulate these devices and components;
from the physics of the confined plasma, through the
electromagnetic and elemental particle forces impingement on
structure and the structural response over the full lifetime of the
device; design, manufacture, operations, decommissioning, would be
a paradigm changing innovation. PPPL is actively working to
establish international leadership in this Virtual Engineering
arena.The Head, Virtual Engineering will provide technical and
thought leadership in the establishment, deployment, and
utilization of a comprehensive virtual/digital engineering
enterprise using high performance computing (HPC) capability at
PPPL to meet the above goals. Responsibilities will include setting
the technical direction and implementation of our integrated fusion
energy research program and virtual engineering modeling and
simulation (M&S) environment. This will necessitate the
initiation and maintenance of extensive contacts with key engineers
and scientists in other areas of the Laboratory and in other fusion
organizations both in the US and internationally. The successful
candidate will bring creativity, foresight, and mature professional
judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented problems, in
determining project objectives and requirements, and in developing
standards and guides for diverse engineering, computing, and
scientific activities. This position reports to the PPPL Associate
Laboratory Director (ALD) for Engineering, who will provide support
and general administrative direction for the virtual engineering
program objectives, schedules, and budgets.Responsibilities
- Establish and solicit long term funding for a comprehensive
research program in Virtual Engineering in collaboration with the
Physics and Computational Science groups at PPPL.
- Apply extensive and diversified knowledge of principles and
practices in the implementation and integration of disparate
modeling and simulation tools in an HPC environment.
- Develop system level requirements for the implementation of a
virtual engineering enterprise using Lab developed and commercial
tools as the backbone and generate relevant, measurable, achievable
key performance indicators. These requirements include the
integration and optimization of the tool suite with computing and
storage assets including objective scope of capability growth
overtime.
- Orchestrate workflows and work with data APIs to allow the
seamless interaction of models and tools.
- Support the development of the virtual engineering management,
governance, consistency to architectural procedures, standards,
patterns, processes, and tools.
- Initiate and maintain extensive contact with the Information
Technology department and the Computational Science Directorate to
effectively develop necessary virtual engineering
capabilities.
- Implement innovative and creative solutions to integrate
computer models and simulations that effectively capture system
effects while maintaining awareness of the virtual/digital
engineering landscape.
- Engage directly with stakeholders and technology areas to drive
understanding of the strategy for virtual engineering and ensure
all initiatives align to the strategy.
- Develop short-term and long-term system design and
implementation strategies including cost estimates.
- Prepare Project Execution Plans, including cost, scope, and
schedule, and manage work to the plan.
- Reprioritize activities within the scope of work being managed
based on resources and laboratory research priorities.
- Manage virtual engineering hardware and software lifecycle
inventory and maintenance on the assets.
- Supervise the professionals and technicians who assist them,
estimate personnel needs, and schedule and assign work to meet
completion deadlines on assigned projects.
- Report on virtual engineering status and plans including but
not limited to capturing lessons learned, developing policies,
guides, procedures, and reports, and preparing and giving
presentations.
- Develop and deliver coursework in Virtual Engineering to
support a Masters in Engineering (Fusion Engineering focus)
curriculum being developed in collaboration Princeton
University.Qualifications Education and Experience:
- Ph.D. in Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related
field.
- Professional experience, at least 10 years (inclusive of
post-BS academic experience), preferably in a scientific or R&D
environment.
- A proven track record of leading research and development
activities in multi-physics engineering analysis for complex
systems.
- Demonstrated engineering or scientific leadership
experience.Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Design, precedents, principles, and best practices related to
implementation of large-scale, complex modeling & simulation (Linux
and Windows) software development environments.
- Possess a high degree of ingenuity, creativity, and
resourcefulness and ability to work in fast paced, team
environment, build consensus among peers, effective relationships,
effectively handle change, identify issues, and work with
stakeholders to develop solutions.
- Technical competence in engineering (advanced thermal,
electro-magnetic and mechanical modeling and analysis (both static
and transient events) and multi-physics domain software integration
and management.
- Technical understanding if digital engineering, digital twins,
computational sciences, data visualization, data migration, data
modeling, and business process modelling.
- Strong technical writing skills and oral skills to eectively
communicate with a diverse group of researchers, engineers,
technicians, and external stakeholders.
- Technical competence in fusion energy, high-vacuum, high
heat-flux, and in-vacuum motion systems, is desired.This will be an
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Posted1 week ago(1/12/2023 12:17 PM)Department PPPL Engineering and
Infrastrc Category Engineering Job Type Full-Time
Keywords: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Trenton , Head, Virtual Engineering, Engineering , Princeton, New Jersey
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