Control Systems Architect – IFE

Location: Full-time onsite role based at the headquarters in Denver, Colorado; travel 10–20% between the Denver headquarters and the future plant site.

Salary: $155,000–$182,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global develops inertial fusion energy technology and laser architecture for fusion power plants supporting global decarbonization.

What you will do

• Define and maintain the fusion power plant control system architecture across safety, real-time, and supervisory control layers.
• Develop network segmentation, precision timing and triggering, plant data capture, architecture descriptions, and control narratives.
• Define control requirements and interface definitions for major plant systems and carry them through design reviews and change control.
• Design control and instrumentation elements including I/O and signal definitions, control sequences, interlocks, and operating modes.
• Evaluate control platforms, protocols, and standards, and develop prototypes or testbeds to reduce architecture risk.
• Support trade studies, technical analyses, design reviews, staffing, and schedule planning for the control system scope.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Typically 10+ years of relevant control systems engineering experience for large, multi-subsystem facilities such as power plants, process plants, accelerators, large laser facilities, or research facilities, including ownership of system-level or architecture design.
• Working knowledge of industrial control architectures including PLC or DCS, safety instrumented systems, SCADA/HMI, industrial networks, and plant historians.
• Experience developing control requirements, interface control documents, control narratives, and architecture descriptions through formal design reviews.
• Ability to work independently on complex, loosely defined problems and communicate architecture decisions clearly to engineers, scientists, and leadership.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident with a current Green Card, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in a related field.
• Experience with nuclear or other licensed facilities, safety classification, defense in depth, and instrumentation and control qualification.
• Experience with functional safety lifecycle work under IEC 61508/61511, SIL allocation, and cause-and-effect design.
• Experience with precision timing and triggering, high-speed data acquisition, or pulsed power controls.
• Experience with OT cybersecurity under IEC 62443 and segregated control network design.
• Hands-on experience with Beckhoff TwinCAT, Siemens, Rockwell, or EPICS-class control platforms, and Python or LabVIEW for test automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work at the Denver headquarters with 10–20% travel to the future plant site.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; life insurance; short- and long-term disability; and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company match of up to 6% and equity for eligible employees.
• Flexible paid time off, paid sick time, 13 company-paid holidays, and an annual paid company shutdown.
• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Hiring process

• Artificial intelligence tools may support application review, resume analysis, response assessment, and inconsistency or verification-signal checks; final hiring decisions are made by humans.