HTS Magnet Engineering Leader

Job Description

Job Description

About the Company

Our client is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. They are on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.

This is a direct hire, permanent placement position for a client of AdAstra Talent Advisors.

About the Role

Our client is seeking experienced, highly motivated magnet engineers to join its rapidly growing team. The magnet engineering roles will design, build, and test high temperature superconducting ("HTS") magnets. HTS magnets are foundational components of the company's planar coil stellarator, making compact, simpler, and lower-cost fusion systems possible. As part of a rapidly growing team, you'll be part of the organizational build-up of a leading fusion energy company. This role will have a high degree of autonomy and must be able to move quickly. The team is comprised of self-motivated, creative, and fun individuals with an excitement for solving complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly design, build, and test HTS magnets
• Develop specifications for magnets based on system design and performance goals
• Optimize magnet design and run analysis using Multiphysics simulation software (e.g. Ansys EM, Structure, COMSOL, etc.)
• Develop design tools, data analysis software, and algorithms using Python or similar
• Incorporate design for manufacturing principles and support first builds
• Produce design specifications and collaborate with vendors to get quotes and deliver hardware that meets qualifications
• Support the implementation of tooling and manufacturing
• Design and execute magnet testing
• Track and report results and progress against program goals and milestones
• Communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders

Requirements

Logistical Requirements

Benefit Highlights

Compensation is determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity.

Equal Opportunity

Our client is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a company of diverse backgrounds. By creating a diverse environment, we will bring new ideas and approaches to solving some of the world’s hardest (and most important) problems. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, family or marital status, age, disability, veteran’s status, or other characteristic protected by applicable laws and regulations.

About AdAstra

AdAstra Talent Advisors is a headhunting and talent advising firm focused on the Climate, Space, and Defense sectors of Hard Tech. We specialize in pairing highly technical and executive talent with some of the world’s leading Hard Tech startups.

At AdAstra, we catalyze the innovations that future generations depend on by placing the right people in the right seats. Our dedicated work enables inconceivable technology from Earth, to the stars. And it’s all because of trailblazing talent like you - those driven to do what’s never been done before.

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