Academic employee (f/m/d)

Your tasks

The safety assessment of future fusion power plants requires robust models for the dispersion, environmental behavior, and dose assessment of tritium. The Resilient and Smart Infrastructure Systems (RESIS) department possesses unique expertise in this field, at the intersection of atmospheric dispersion modeling, tritium modeling, radiation protection, nuclear emergency management, and quality-assured scientific software development.

Specifically, your responsibilities will include the following:

• Expansion of existing Java- and Fortran-based model components for the atmospheric dispersion of radionuclides, as well as the implementation of an area-wide source term for the risk assessment of tritium releases from fusion reactors, including debugging, testing and documentation
• Further development of the JRODOS system in Java, including the implementation of new functionalities
• Collaboration on model components addressing the behavior of tritium, particularly HTO and OBT, plants, animal feed, and foodstuffs, as well as in dose calculation
• Development of small Python tools to support data preparation, test automation, result verification and recurring development tasks

Your profile

• A completed master degree in computer science, physics, mathematics, meteorology or a comparable field
• Several years of professional experience as a software developer, preferably at the mid+ level
• Experience in the development, maintenance, and quality assurance of complex software systems, particularly with Java
• Experience with unit testing and test automation
• Knowledge of design patterns and clean software architecture
• Thorough code, interface, and concept documentation
• Experience with Python for developing small tools and scripts
• Excellent written and spoken German and English skills