Materials Characterization Part-Time Co-Op - Spring 2026

Company 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.

Job Summary

The Materials Characterization Co-Op will work on the Materials team to support various materials qualification programs, fuels fabrication programs, and deployment of new characterization capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Perform materials characterization to support structural materials qualification programs, including metallographic sample preparation, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy, electron back-scatter diffraction, optical microscopy.
• Perform characterization to support TRISO and fuel pebble fabrication and quality control programs, including metallographic sample preparation, X-ray computed tomography
• Develop new characterization methods in wet chemistry and analytical chemistry for TRISO particle and fuel pebble characterization, including manual techniques, HPLC, and ICP-MS
• Support in installation and commissioning new characterization equipment
• Support in development and writing of characterization procedures
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

CHEM 2310C Quantitative Analysis Lecture and Laboratory

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Physical Conditions

Environmental Conditions

Safety and PPE

Travel

The salary range for this position is $27 to $29 per hour. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include your education, experience, knowledge, skills, ability and the market data for your work location, and a comparison to other employees already in the role.

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About our Benefits

We know that we have some of the most talented and dedicated employees, and we believe in rewarding them accordingly. If you work here, full-time employees (excludes interns) expect to have access to the benefits below :

Kairos Power is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects the communities where we do business. Kairos Power is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We actively welcome people of different experiences, abilities, and perspectives.

Kairos Power participates in E-Verify.

Candidates only, no recruiters or agencies please.

Note : You are applying for a position that is located in a facility that handles information that is subject to export control restrictions by the Department of Energy under 10 CFR Part 810. To work in this facility, you need to be authorized by the Department of Energy to access Part 810-controlled information. Foreign nationals who are citizens of countries that are not on the Department of Energy's general authorization list (link below) are not permitted to work in our facility unless the Department of Energy issues an export control license to the company to permit that individual to have access to Part 810-controlled information. The following questions are intended to determine the licensing requirements that may apply.