Senior Real-Time Systems Architect for Fusion Control

Thea Energy Inc.; Kearny (NJ); On-site; USD 200,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary range: $200,000-$230,000 per yr

Health benefits

Employee equity stock options

20 days PTO

Job summary

Thea Energy Inc. in New Jersey seeks a Principal Real-Time Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy the Eos Control System real-time software framework.

You will work with controls and physics teams to create a robust execution environment enabling plasma control, magnet and power-supply control, diagnostics, and other time-critical applications to operate as an integrated system. Expect hands-on software development plus architecture, hardware integration, verification, commissioning,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 10+ years delivering complex real-time software systems.
• Hands-on real-time control, plasma control, or diagnostics experience.
• Contributions to reusable real-time software platforms and frameworks.
• Strong C and modern C++ with concurrency and timing control.
• Deep Linux RT experience (RedHawk PREEMPT_RT) and latency analysis.
• Experience with real-time fusion frameworks like MARTe2 or ITER CODAC.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the Eos real-time framework architecture and interfaces.
• Evaluate MARTe2 and other frameworks against Eos requirements.
• Develop prototypes and performance measurements for latency and determinism.
• Translate control needs into measurable timing budgets and specs.
• Build deterministic execution services and multi-rate scheduling components.
• Engineer real-time Linux platforms and optimize CPU/memory usage.
• Develop hardware interfaces for digitizers, FPGA, and timing hardware.
• Create data exchange and timing interfaces across subsystems.
• Collaborate with physics and controls teams on algorithms and diagnostics.
• Contribute to tests, verification, and commissioning activities.

Skills

10+ years software engineering

Real-time systems

C/C++

Linux real-time

MARTe2

Software architecture

Model-based development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/EE/Physics or related

Tools

MARTe2

EPICS

MATLAB/Simulink

LabVIEW Real-Time

FPGA interfaces

PCIe/RDMA

Job description

Thea Energy Inc. in New Jersey seeks a Principal Real-Time Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy the Eos Control System real-time software framework.

You will work with controls and physics teams to create a robust execution environment enabling plasma control, magnet and power-supply control, diagnostics, and other time-critical applications to operate as an integrated system. Expect hands-on software development plus architecture, hardware integration, verification, commissioning,