Senior Mechanical Engineer, Remote Maintenance for Fusion

Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC; Harvard (MA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

13 Company-wide Holidays

Health insurance

Job summary

Commonwealth Fusion Systems seeks a Senior Remote Maintenance Engineer to design ARC’s Remote Maintenance System and remote handling equipment. You will engage with tokamak and plant teams to develop a maintainable power plant and drive proactive R&D in remote maintenance technologies.

The role requires leading multi-disciplinary efforts, deep knowledge of RHE, and collaboration across teams to ensure robust maintenance capabilities for ARC’s fusion power plant.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in structural, mechanical, or aerospace engineering.
• 7+ years in design of complex mechanical structures.
• Experience with remote handling equipment design.

Responsibilities

• Develop concept of operations for ARC Remote Maintenance System.
• Participate in the pre-conceptual design process of the ARC fusion power plant.
• Design ARC’s radiation hardened remote handling equipment (RHE).
• Perform maintenance assessments of the tokamak and plant to shape the maintainable design.
• Collaborate with tokamak engineering teams to ensure remote maintainability.
• Conduct high level multidisciplinary trade studies across physics, design, maintenance, and economics.
• Identify key R&D needs for ARC remote maintenance and plan executions.
• Research existing remote handling solutions and assess applicability to ARC.
• Work with external RHE/robotics partners and transfer knowledge into CFS.
• Establish CFS’s remote maintenance design guidelines for RHE, Tokamak, and plant.

Skills

7+ yrs mechanical

RHE remote handling experience

R&D leadership

CAD proficiency

Ansys FEM analysis

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Tools

NX CAD

ANSYS

Job description

Commonwealth Fusion Systems seeks a Senior Remote Maintenance Engineer to design ARC’s Remote Maintenance System and remote handling equipment. You will engage with tokamak and plant teams to develop a maintainable power plant and drive proactive R&D in remote maintenance technologies.

The role requires leading multi-disciplinary efforts, deep knowledge of RHE, and collaboration across teams to ensure robust maintenance capabilities for ARC’s fusion power plant.