Member of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics

Maritime Fusion
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 120,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceEducation: phdSkills: ["Problem-solving","Collaboration","Communication","Teamwork","Analytical thinking"]

A hands-on plasma physics researcher designing, simulating, and helping build marine deployable tokamaks. You will run transport and system codes across the plasma and machine stack, optimize magnetic systems, explore divertor concepts, and collaborate with academic and government labs to broaden tokamak design knowledge while solving complex, real-world problems.

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Maritime Fusion
Maritime Fusion
1 year ago

Member of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics

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Job Summary

A hands-on plasma physics researcher designing, simulating, and helping build marine deployable tokamaks. You will run transport and system codes across the plasma and machine stack, optimize magnetic systems, explore divertor concepts, and collaborate with academic and government labs to broaden tokamak design knowledge while solving complex, real-world problems.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Seniority: Entry level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Run simulations across the full plasma + machine stack, including plasma equilibrium and magnetic system optimization, stability and confinement, transport, edge physics, burning plasma physics, diagnostic system design, and disruption mitigation
  • •Use tools like POPCON, TokaMaker, ASTRA, TGLF, Fuse, CGYRO, BALOO, UEDGE, Bluemira, COMSOL, ANSYS, FEA, and OpenMC to analyze and optimize the full system
  • •Develop models and workflows to connect simulations with real-world design constraints
  • •Build relationships and collaborate with academic and government labs to enhance tokamak design space
  • •Solve hard problems related to marine deployable tokamak design

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 200,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Ph.D./M.S. in Plasma Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • •Experience modeling tokamaks or similar fusion devices from grad school, postdoc, or industry
  • •Strong coding and engineering fundamentals
  • •Willingness to do the dirty work involved with early stage startups; assemble office furniture, set up software licenses, foster external industry relationships
  • •Experience with plasma/physics simulations and related tooling is a plus
Experience:FusionPlasma physics
Education:PhD / Doctorate
Skills:Problem-solvingCollaborationCommunicationTeamworkAnalytical thinking
Tech Stack:POPCONTokaMakerASTRATGLFFuseCGYROBALOOUEDGEBluemiraCOMSOLANSYSFEAOpenMC

Company Brief

Maritime Fusion
Provides cloud-based maritime operations software to optimize vessel operations, crewing, compliance, scheduling and logistics using analytics and real-time data to improve efficiency, safety and decision-making for shipowners, operators and maritime service providers.
Industry: Maritime Logistics
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