Diagnostician
Commonwealth Fusion SystemsDevens, MA
Full Time
Posted March 5, 2026
$110k - $185k
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Job Description
About Commonwealth Fusion Systems:
Key Responsibilities
- Shepherd SPARC diagnostic sub-systems through final design, working with a team of scientists, designers, analysts and engineers
- Integrate technical input from experts in the SPARC team to ensure diagnostic designs will be usable to achieve SPARC’s mission goals
- Develop the diagnostic’s assembly, installation, calibration and commissioning plans to ensure SPARC is able to achieve first plasma on-schedule
- Integrate the diagnostic into the plant-level and real-time plasma control systems
- Participate in the testing and operation of diagnostic systems that balances learning how to operate SPARC with obtaining physics results as quickly as possible
- Contribute to a strong safety culture
- Collaborate with CFS designers and analysts as well as provide feedback to academic partners providing input to SPARC diagnostic designs
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering field (mechanical, aerospace, civil or nuclear)
- Participated in the design of a new or upgraded scientific instrument of the scale and complexity of those used in magnetically confined fusion
- Demonstrated examples of using scientific instruments to support an operational and/or research mission
- Developed software using Python, Matlab, C++ or equivalent for analysis of experimental data and automation of lab equipment
- Relevant hands-on knowledge/skills specific to diagnostic systems listed in summary (e.g. vacuum systems, lasers, calibration sources, etc.)
- Ability to understand concepts and tradeoffs that bridge engineering and physics
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs
- Perform activities such as climbing, typing, standing, or 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
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