Location: Bergen (Norway), Warrington (UK) or Zeist (the Netherlands)
Contract: Full time
Closing date: 04 June 2023
Interview date: To be confirmed
Role Purpose
We are looking for two (senior) research engineers to join our R&D team.
Gexcon makes software to model and visualise 3D consequences (e.g. explosions, fires etc.) of hazardous gas and liquid releases and is used in safety studies worldwide, and you’ll be part of the driving force to help with our mission to make the world a safer place and contribute to the green energy transition.
As part of our team, you’ll be working in a R&D scrum team to help further develop our existing and new software products. You will work directly on the CFD solver FLACS, sub-models and related research. FLACS is part of the Gexcon X-suite of software: https://www.gexcon.com/software/
We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about developing and improving algorithms and scientific models and will enjoy working in one of our multidisciplinary teams.
About Gexcon
Gexcon was founded in 1987 as a consulting brand of Christian Michelsen Institute. In 1998, Gexcon was established as an independent company providing advanced safety engineering software, consulting and fire and explosion testing services.
Gexcon continues to build on the knowledge and expertise acquired for more than 50 years of involvement in R&D and large loss incident investigations, such as Buncefield, Piper Alpha, TWA 800, and the P-36 platform. Gexcon has since become a world-leading company in the field of safety and risk management and advanced dispersion, explosion and fire modelling.
Today, this Norwegian Company is headquartered in Bergen, Norway and operates globally from offices based in Australia, China, France, India, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, the UAE, the UK and USA.
You
To be successful in this role, you must have the following attributes:
- Master’s or PhD degree in engineering, physics, mathematics or similar with good academic results
- Proficient developing and improving mathematical models and algorithms using scientific programming techniques in FORTRAN, C, C++ or similar
- Experience with gas- or multiphase- dispersion, combustion, deflagration, detonation, heat radiation, structural response modelling and/or process safety
- Experience developing and improving 3D CFD software models (especially using RANS and/or adaptive mesh refinement)
- Ideally, proficiency with Python
- Affinity with data science and/or statistics
- Ability to translate complex theory into practical software and model implementation, while balancing model accuracy, calculation speed and development time
- Ability to work independently as well as in a team
- Enthusiastic and pro-active
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Proximity to one of our R&D/Software offices in Norway (Bergen or Trondheim), The Netherlands (Zeist) or UK (Warrington)
The role
Your responsibilities will include:
- CFD solver development in FORTRAN, improving existing mathematical models and adding new sub-models related to turbulence, combustion, source term modelling etc.
- Following AGILE/Scrum software development methodology
- Supporting research, such as literature studies and prototyping new models
- Validation of simulation results against experimental data
- Contributing to the technical documentation and third level technical support
- Close collaboration within the rest of the R&D team
- Involvement in international applied research projects
- Communication of results in the form of reports, publications, and presentations in various forums
The rewards
- Freedom and responsibility: We provide the security of a well-established and successful company but try to maintain a start-up feel by giving our researchers a lot of freedom, responsibility, and opportunity to influence the development choices and direction of our products.
- Interesting and challenging work, especially balancing accuracy and calculation speed, and with the new directions we may want to go to such as with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Inspiring colleagues from 20 different countries and an organisation that highly values cooperation and knowledge sharing
- Opportunity to be involved in the green energy transition
- A positive working environment to help provide a healthy work-life balance
- Competitive conditions for all employees, including attractive salary and pension scheme
Gexcon is a proud contributor to the 17 UN sustainable development goals which aims to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all.
At Gexcon, we are an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.