Senior Scientist – ARC Plasma Instrumentation
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Job Location:
Devens, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About Commonwealth Fusion Systems:
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is on a mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy.
Combining decades of research top talent and new technologies were designing and building commercially viable fusion power plants. And were working with policymakers and suppliers to build the energy industry of the future.
Were in the best position to make it happen. Since 2018 weve raised nearly $3 billion in capital making us the largest and leading private fusion company in the world.
Now were looking for more thinkers doers builders and makers to join us. People wholl bring new perspectives solve tough problems and thrive as part of a team.
If thats you and this role fits we want to hear from you.
Join the power movement as a Senior Scientist ARC Plasma Instrumentation
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is currently in the early stages of designing the ARC fusion power plant. The tokamak will share some attributes with SPARC but will also present many new challenges especially in the thermal and radiological environment inside of the tokamak. The Senior Scientist ARC Plasma Instrumentation will lead early efforts at scoping out necessary measurements in the plasma for plant control and the technologies that will be used to make these measurements. The Senior Scientist will build off what has been done for SPARC with a particular focus on determining the minimum necessary set of measurements and instruments for a power many cases novel techniques may be required in order to operate in the thermal and radiological environment so the scientist will work closely with R&D teams to determine necessary R&D for this instrumentation. CFS is looking for someone with experience designing building and operating fusion diagnostics and with an interest in exploring a breadth of measurements and technologies for future power plants.
What youll do:
- Determine and continually refine the set of measurements necessary to operate the ARC tokamak coordinating with the plasma control and plasma physics teams
- Evaluate potential techniques and technologies to make the measurements required in ARC with a particular focus on techniques that will work robustly in the thermal and radiological environment in ARC
- Determine which techniques and technologies will require significant R&D and work with CFS R&D teams to scope out what projects are necessary to develop these technologies
- Develop early concepts layouts and requirements for proposed plasma instrumentation on ARC including space requirements both inside and outside of the tokamak
- Work with the remote maintenance team to ideate and evaluate remote replacement strategies for plasma instrumentation
- Longer term coordinate efforts of various engineering disciplines to design and analyze instrumentation concepts
- Coordinate efforts of external collaborators on ARC plasma instrumentation
What were looking for:
- PhD in experimental plasma physics or a closely related field
- 5 years experience (post degree) in plasma physics or fusion research
- Experience designing building and operating plasma instrumentation (diagnostics) in plasma experiments
- Experience working on a multi-disciplinary engineering project
- Experience performing independent research
- Knowledge of plasma instrumentation (diagnostics) on tokamaks or similar fusion experiments
- Knowledge of engineering sufficient to interact with multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- A desire to design commercial fusion products
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work with collaborations from a variety of academic institutions
Bonus points for:
- Experience with Python
Must-have Requirements:
- Perform activities such as typing or sitting for extended periods of time
- Willingness to travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call regularly
- Work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat cold noise fumes strong magnets lead (Pb) high voltage high current pressure systems and cryogenics
$110000 - $185000 a year
Salary range for this full-time position equity benefits.The actual salary will depend on level location qualifications and experience. The range displayed on each job posting reflects new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Benefits include:
Competitive compensation with equity
13 Company-wide Holidays
Flexible vacation days
10 sick days
Generous parental leave policy
Health dental and vision insurance
401(k) with employer matching
Professional growth opportunities
Team-building activities
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At CFS we excel in fast-paced environments driven by our values of integrity execution impact and self-critique. As we grow were eager to bring on mission-driven folks who offer diverse perspectives and fresh ways to tackle challenges.
We value diversity deeply and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer by choice. We consider all qualified applicants equally regardless of race color national origin ancestry citizenship status protected veteran status religion physical or mental disability marital status sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age or any other basis protected by law.
This role requires compliance with U.S. laws concerning the export of controlled or protected technologies or information (collectively Export Control Laws). Any offer of employment will be contingent on the need for compliance with such Export Control Laws.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Protein Purification
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Flow Cytometry
