Lead Engineer, Strategic Partnerships
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Job Location:
Devens, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
14 hours 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 Lead Engineer Strategic Partnerships
The Lead Engineer Strategic Partnerships is an individual who operates at the intersection of deep technical fluency and strategic relationship-building. You will help build the architecture of CFS external innovation ecosystem: identifying recruiting and activating the worlds best researchers institutions and programs to accelerate our roadmap and retire risk. You will represent CFS to National Laboratories universities government agencies international fusion programs and private partners and you will bring those relationships to life as funded milestone-driven technical collaborations that move the needle on the hardest most consequential engineering problems in the world.
This is not a behind-the-scenes role. You will develop and directly collaborate with CFS and partner technical and business leads to drive programs forward shape strategy and be in the room when CFS most important external decisions get made. If you are someone who wants to be at the tip of the spear on a civilization-defining mission and who has the technical depth relationship instincts and entrepreneurial drive to thrive there we are building this role for you.
What youll do:
- Create a vision for technical partnerships: Identify recruit and build new collaborators programs and relationships with the capabilities required to retire risk and accelerate roadmaps. Partners may include large and small companies universities National Labs non-profit organizations and foreign research organizations
- Own partner success stories: Take ownership of existing relationships with key international public and private fusion programs and technical teams. Understand how our goals align and where they differ. Drive decision projects and programs forward. Execute and evolve business processes guided by technical and relationship insight to accelerate the CFS commercial pathway.
- Connect the dots: Integrate with internal R&D engineering procurement and policy teams to understand the equities involved in a relationship and how technical and business opportunities and risks can be pursued in the context they create.
- Imagine and create: Pitch catalyze and deliver new programs and collaborations to CFS technical and business unit leads and some of the best technical talent in the world including at the worlds best-known companies. Support innovation processes across company divisions unite and lead.
- Create opportunities: Devise and execute funding strategies for your program basket including but not limited to government grants in-kind private collaborations philanthropies and other internal and external funding. You will have the ownership to make it happen.
- Write the CFS story: Write proposals white papers government grant applications pitches and relationship briefs that make clear opportunities and risks with a bias to execution and speed.
- Tackle organizational complexity: Become the expert on your partners programs and projects through insight and execution experience. Support the entire collaborative program life-cycle including launch execution and conclusion. This includes executing contracts setting and tracking milestones and deliverables and memorializing outputs.
- Technically capable business operator: You can read a technical paper and call a National Lab scientist to discuss it; then take a call with an internal commercial lead and external contracts agent or program owner to discuss terms and roadmaps. You are comfortable at the intersection of technical and business environments.
- Strategic thinker: You are able to parse negotiate and plan your way through a field of intersecting conflicting or incompletely known organizational roadmaps finding and creating value where others dont see it. You can plan the next chess move to advance one or more strategic partnerships advocate for it and catalyze internal and external teams to pursue it.
- Self-starting dynamo: You have relentless energy and drive and are driven to problem solve and take informed risks in a dynamic quickly evolving business environment while recognizing constraints and the needs of colleagues and external partners.
- Life-long learner: You have an endless curiosity and have demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new complex technical fields to the extent that you can converse plan and execute with experts in those fields
- Exceptional communicator and negotiator: You have finely honed oral written and extemporaneous communication skills proven out in complex technical programmatic and business environments. You are the person in the room who can crystallize summarize motivate and deliver insight. You are persuasive and are able to find win-win solutions with partners.
- Problem solver: You direct your curiosity and energy into solving real problems on the ground including technical organizational financial and contractual. You can navigate complexity and act as a forcing function to real solutions.
- Mastery of details: You will be the person on your team that spots an inconsistency missing requirement gap or alignment that turns into an opportunity or retires a risk. You can absorb process rank and organize large quantities of information of different categories at high velocity.
What were looking for:
- Bachelors degree in Business Engineering or a related technical field
- 10 years experience owning developing or managing a technical project program or product with value exceeding $1M/year.
- 10 years experience managing one or more technical or business partnerships comprising multiple stakeholders across diverse groups or institutions
Experience building executive consensus and driving organizational alignment
Bonus points for:
- Masters degree in the field of Engineering Business a field with a scientific component or another related field
- Experience negotiating project and program contracts including IP terms and including with public and private partners
- Experience with energy technologies systems or markets fusion energy a plus
- Familiarity with enterprise management systems such as Confluence/Jira or an equivalent
Must-have requirements:
- Perform extended activities such as typing standing sitting for extended periods of time
- Willingness to travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call occasionally
- 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
- May need to walk around lab R&D and manufacturing environments and abide by all safety protocols for potential hazards including high magnetic fields cryogenic liquids large equipment high power electronics etc.
$130000 - $200000 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:
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