Diagnostic Engineer

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has the fastest, lowest cost path to commercial fusion energy.

CFS collaborates with MIT to leverage decades of research combined with groundbreaking new high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology. HTS magnets will enable compact fusion power plants that can be constructed faster and at lower cost. Our mission is to deploy these power plants to meet global decarbonization goals as fast as possible. To that end, CFS has assembled a team of leaders in tough tech, fusion science, and manufacturing with a track record of rapid execution. Supported by the world’s leading investors, CFS is uniquely positioned to deliver limitless, clean, fusion power to combat climate change. To implement this plan, we are looking to add dedicated people to the team who treat people well, improve our work by adding multifaceted perspectives and new ways of solving problems, have achieved outstanding results through a range of pursuits, and have skills and experience related to this role.

The design of the SPARC facility is continually advancing, including the design of instrumentation that will be used to control the plasma and deliver the scientific data necessary to inform the design of ARC. The SPARC Diagnostic system is comprised of over forty sub-systems that use a variety of proven techniques to encode information from a tokamak plasma into measurable signals; active laser-based measurements, passive and active analysis of microwave-band emission, spectroscopy of plasma emission from the X-ray to infrared, characterization of neutrons produced from fusion reactions, and a wide variety of wired sensors and probes integrated into the vacuum environment. Techniques have been demonstrated by decades of government-sponsored fusion research, and CFS is looking for multi-disciplinary engineers who can contribute to innovative design and engineering solutions to ensure these concepts can be integrated into the SPARC tokamak. Candidates that have a design, prototyping or analysis skills in the aerospace, mechanical, mechatronic or civil engineering disciplines are encouraged to apply. The SPARC Diagnostic team welcomes engineers looking for a career transition who want to join a team with diverse backgrounds and solve challenging problems in the growing fusion energy industry. Candidates will work alongside CFS staff, MIT-PSFC partners and fusion community collaborators from around the world to design and build the tools that will measure net energy from a tokamak for the first time.