Director, Integrated Target Design
Xcimer EnergyDenver, CO
Full Time
Posted October 1, 2026
$241k - $284k
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 5, 2026
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Job Description
Build, grow, and lead the Integrated Target Design group, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, managing, mentoring, and the professional development of staff.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, grow, and lead the Integrated Target Design group, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, managing, mentoring, and the professional development of staff.
- Convert program priorities into detailed work scopes, schedules, and task assignments for the team.
- Evaluate near-term capability and resource needs and communicate them to program leadership to support effective staffing and toolchain development.
- Uphold and enforce Xcimer’s cultural values of humble ambition, accountable trust, respectful critique, and rigorous urgency.
- Ensure the high‑quality execution of all work by removing obstacles and maintaining clear priorities for the team.
- Work with the Theory and Computation group to ensure modeling capabilities align with design needs.
- Collaborate with the Diagnostic Physics Division (Imaging and Spectroscopy) to ensure researchers have the diagnostic support, interfaces, and coordination needed for high-quality execution of experiments.
- Participate as a technical authority in cross‑functional discussions with laser engineering, target fabrication, chamber engineering, diagnostics, etc.
- Provide day-to-day technical guidance to team members in implosion physics, LPI, symmetry control, and energy coupling strategies.
- Review and validate team outputs for technical quality and consistency Contribute to technical collaborations with national labs, universities, external vendors, and testing facilities.
- Establish department-wide practices, documentation standards, review processes, and quality control appropriate for industrial fusion systems.
- An Integrated Design team with high measures of performance, strong collaborations, and very clear priorities.
- High-quality outputs delivered on schedule and aligned with program goals.
- Strong integration of target physics and implosion design work into experimental platforms that drive system, element, and program level decisions.
- Effective recruiting, mentoring, and development of internal capabilities.
- Consistent delivery of work scopes tied to physics risks and their resolution.
Requirements
- Ph.D. in Physics or Engineering, or a related technical field, with knowledge of ICF.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop scientific or technical teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to convey complex arguments to diverse staff in a matrixed organization.
- Ability to manage execution in a fast-moving, interdisciplinary environment, with evolving priorities.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.
- Deep expertise in inertial confinement fusion, capsule and hohlraum design, laser-plasma instabilities, hydrodynamics, or a related field.
- Familiarity with radiation‑hydrodynamic modeling workflows, methods in physics validation, and developing or supporting experimental platforms at HED facilities (NIF, OMEGA, Z, or similar).
- Experience in multi‑institutional experimental collaborations.
- Familiarity with topics of interest to IFE including target fabrication, DT filling, cryogenic handling, and/or target injection and delivery.
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