Director, Business Development (Advanced Energy)
Avalanche EnergyTukwila, WA
Full Time
Posted September 1, 2026
$170k - $170k
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 7, 2026
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Job Description
$170K/yr - $250K/yr
Key Responsibilities
- We are seeking a senior business development professional to drive commercialization activities for our various energy technologies during a period of rapid growth. Avalanche will remain R&D-intensive for the next several years, and this leader will connect mission needs, acquisition and budget strategy, technology maturation, and commercialization while helping the company build scalable operating discipline.
- You will secure government and commercial contracts and agreements, establish strategic partnerships across government, industry, national labs, and academia, and support the development of value chains required to go to market. This role is critical to the commercialization of Avalanche Energy’s fusion and fusion-enabling technologies effort and could grow into a GM-level role with P&L responsibility.
- This position reports to the Director of Strategy and will work closely with executive, technical, legal, finance, regulatory, compliance, and operations leadership to align business development priorities with RDT&E, commercialization, and growth objectives.
Requirements
- 15+ years’ experience in business development and capture/proposal management with referenceable success winning $10M+ DOE (and other federal) prime RDT&E grants, contracts, and agreements.
- Deep experience spanning DOE, national labs, and industry—including a strong network and demonstrated ability to navigate the DOE and funding processes and lab partnership mechanisms.
- Proven history of successfully negotiating and closing multi-million dollar, high-risk, long-term contracts involving government regulation, complex financing structures, and highly technical products/services.
- Strong understanding of the FAR, federal contract vehicles and types, and the various grants and agreements used by the DOE, such as partnership intermediary agreements, cooperative agreements, other transaction agreements, consortium agreements, etc.
- Experience collaborating with engineers and scientists to translate complex technical concepts into detailed white papers, proposals, RFI responses, presentations, and other tactical communications for business development purposes.
- Understanding of the federal regulatory landscape for fusion or nuclear and its related processes, including newly emergent, fusion-specific regulations.
- Startup “builder” mindset: comfortable wearing many hats and driving outcomes in ambiguous, resource-constrained environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or a related technical field. MBA or advanced technical degree is strongly preferred.
- Ability to obtain and hold a DoW TS/SCI or DOE Q clearance.
- Direct experience with fusion, nuclear, neutron sources, isotopes, radiation-relevant programs, or adjacent deep-tech hardware commercialization and deployment.
- Direct experience with commercializing or deploying complex capital projects.
- Experience with capturing and negotiating federal procurement or production contracts.
- Experience with selling technical services to the federal government and industry.
- Experience in defense-tech or other high-compliance environments.
- Business development experience with the DoW and major defense primes.
- International business development experience.
- Experience with DFARS.
- Experience working for or with non-traditional contractors.
- PMP (or equivalent) and experience with strong program/capture operating cadence.
- Experience with financial modeling and business case development.
- Active DoW TS/SCI or DOE Q clearance.
- Previous P&L responsibility.
Benefits & Perks
- Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits.
- 10 paid holidays and company-wide December holiday break.
- Generous paid vacation and sick time.
- Small, tight-knit team with low barriers to action.
- Exposure to a wide variety of problems for unparalleled, hands-on professional growth.
- Meaningful equity in the form of stock options.
- This position may require access to export-controlled information. In order to comply with U.S. export control laws, applicants must be a “U.S. person” as defined by U.S. trade control laws (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual).
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