Instrumentation Design 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 SPARC instrumentation and control team seeks an Instrumentation Design Engineer to take responsibility for the design, sourcing, implementation, testing, installation, and commissioning of instrumentation within the SPARC tokamak. This individual will work with instrumentation ranging from hot to cryogenic temperature measurement, structural measurements, electrical and magnetic instrumentation, and other measurements in extreme thermal and radiation environmental conditions, making use of electrical and optical sensing methods. This individual will own selection and sourcing of the instruments themselves – interfacing with subsystem owners to define instrumentation requirements and detailed sensor integration strategies – and be responsible for the entire instrument signal chain from sensor, through feedthroughs and cable routes, to interfaces with data acquisition and control systems.