Real Time Controls Engineer
Commonwealth Fusion SystemsPosted February 6, 2025
Devens, Massachusetts
Nuclear EnergyHYBRID
Job Description
The Real Time Controls Engineer will develop, test, and evaluate control algorithms for the SPARC tokamak control system, focusing on managing a high-temperature plasma using advanced technologies. This role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to address complex challenges in fusion energy development.
Responsibilities
- •Develop, test, and evaluate real-time control algorithms for the SPARC tokamak control system
- •Create control algorithms and architectures for managing a 100 million degree plasma
- •Balance high fusion power goals with machine protection
- •Collaborate with software engineers, physicists, and instrumentation teams on multidisciplinary challenges
Requirements
- •Develop, test, and evaluate the real-time control algorithms for the SPARC tokamak control system.
- •Develop control algorithms and architectures to control a 100 million degree plasma using powerful superconducting magnets, megawatts of radio frequency heating, and fuel injection systems.
- •Work alongside software engineers, physicists, and instrumentation teams to address multidisciplinary challenges involving cutting edge control theory, simulation, plasma physics, software, and hardware.
- •Experience in aerospace, aviation, automotive, or robotics.
Benefits
- •Compensation/salary range
- •Work schedule
- •Work environment perks
- •Any additional benefits
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