Senior Remote Maintenance Engineer - Fusion Systems

Socket.dev; Harvard (MA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is seeking a Senior Remote Maintenance Engineer to help design ARC's Remote Maintenance System. You will develop the maintenance scheme for ARC’s remote handling equipment and collaborate with tokamak and plant engineering teams to ensure maintainability.

Join a fast-paced, mission-driven team advancing fusion energy, with opportunities in RHE, robotics integration, and cross-disciplinary design challenges across physics, materials, and thermo-fluids.

Qualifications

• Structural, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering B.S.
• At least 7 years of mechanical engineering experience in design, fabrication, testing, operations, integration, and commissioning of complex mechanical structures.
• At least 7 years of technical experience in the design of remote handling equipment (RHE) using robotics or remotely operated precision mechanical structures.
• Experience in leading R&D campaigns of novel technology to increase TRL in remote maintenance fields.
• Experience with standard actuation, guidance mechanisms, sensing, and structural mechanisms.
• Proficient in structural analysis via hand calcs and ANSYS.
• Familiar with CAD; NX preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop concept of operations for the ARC Remote Maintenance System
• Participate in pre-conceptual design of the ARC fusion power plant
• Design ARC’s radiation hardened remote handling equipment (RHE) by incorporating a mix of existing robotic technologies, custom hardware, and remotely operated heavy lift equipment
• Perform maintenance assessments of the tokamak and plant to shape the development of ARC as a remotely maintainable power plant
• Collaborate closely with tokamak engineering teams to assist in designing the ARC tokamak for remote maintainability and finding creative and novel solutions to tokamak joints
• Perform high level multi-disciplinary trade studies of solutions that involve complex trade offs between physics, neutronics, design, maintenance, materials, manufacturing, techno-economics, and other disciplines
• Collaborate with multiple teams and manage projects across different disciplines to help solve tough multi-disciplinary problems
• Identify key R&D needed for the ARC remote maintenance program, and help establish the plans to execute the R&D campaigns internally or with external partners
• Research existing established and cutting edge remote handling solutions to assess their application in the ARC remote maintenance system
• Work with external RHE/robotics organizations and general industry to manage contracted work, collaborate on cutting edge R&D, and transfer knowledge and expertise into CFS
• Establish CFS’s remote maintenance design guidelines for RHE, the Tokamak, and plant

Skills

RHE design

Ansys

CAD NX

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Technical leadership

Communication

Education

B.S. in Structural/Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering

Tools

NX CAD

Robotics tooling

Job description

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is seeking a Senior Remote Maintenance Engineer to help design ARC's Remote Maintenance System. You will develop the maintenance scheme for ARC’s remote handling equipment and collaborate with tokamak and plant engineering teams to ensure maintainability.

Join a fast-paced, mission-driven team advancing fusion energy, with opportunities in RHE, robotics integration, and cross-disciplinary design challenges across physics, materials, and thermo-fluids.