Senior Manager, Diagnostic Support Equipment

Commonwealth Fusion Systems; Harvard (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Harvard is looking for a Senior Manager for their Diagnostic Support Equipment team. This role involves providing leadership for a team of approximately ten members, overseeing engineering solutions, and ensuring timely delivery of essential diagnostic hardware. While prior experience in tokamak or fusion diagnostics is not required, candidates with relevant engineering backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

The anticipated compensation for this position ranges from $150,000 to $225,000 annually.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of ~10 direct and indirect staff members.
• Provide engineering solutions for diagnostic support equipment.
• Facilitate the on-time delivery of DSE hardware.

Job description

Senior Manager, Diagnostic Support Equipment

The SPARC Diagnostics Team is responsible for fielding instrumentation to measure the plasma for real‑time control and to enable scientists to investigate burning plasmas. A majority of the team is focused on the instrumentation that observes the plasma directly and are SPARC’s “eyes and ears”. This position is to lead the team that is the “arms and legs”, providing common engineering solutions to enable a wide variety of diagnostics to be cost‑effectively fielded in the vacuum vessel, on the cryostat, in the Tokamak Hall and in one of five dedicated Diagnostic Lab spaces. This support equipment is highly interface constrained and helps to provide solutions between instrumentation systems or with other structural members (e.g. the building or free‑standing pressure vessels). It includes the design and deployment of large concrete and steel structures for radiation shielding, small and large equipment platforms and solutions for cabling and small diameter piping. When viewed from outside, the distinction between support equipment and scientific instrumentation effectively vanishes, but internal to the Diagnostics Team this breakdown helps to facilitate speed and quality.

The Senior Manager of the Diagnostic Support Equipment (DSE) team is expected to provide team leadership to ~10 direct and indirect staff members as well as carry out responsibilities of an individual contributor on an as needed basis to facilitate the on‑time delivery of DSE hardware. The role of the Manager will evolve over the course of the SPARC project as we move from design to operation, but is envisioned to have the Primary Responsibilities listed below. Candidates will work as part of an integrated team that includes many instrumentation leads as well as science staff from inside and outside of CFS. Experience working on a tokamak or fusion plasma diagnostics is not required and CFS welcomes applications from non‑tokamak or non‑fusion backgrounds that can help deliver SPARC’s diagnostic capabilities.

Compensation / salary range: 150,000 - 225,000 USD, yearly.