Manufacturing Engineer - Third Shift (Superconducting Magnets)

Location: Devens, MA, United States; onsite. Third shift: Monday through Friday, 10:00 pm–6:30 am.

Salary: USD 107,000–160,000 per year, plus a 15% third-shift differential.

Company

hirify.global designs and builds commercially viable fusion power plants and superconducting magnet systems for the transition to fusion energy.

What you will do

• Provide hands-on manufacturing engineering support across fabrication, welding, inspection, instrumentation, and cryogenic testing workstations.
• Troubleshoot process, equipment, and quality issues; make real-time decisions to hold or stop work when product or personnel safety is at risk.
• Verify workstation setups against process plans, including hardware, tooling, and torque sequences.
• Manage nonconformances and lead root cause and corrective action investigations.
• Maintain accurate MES work instructions and process plans, resolve blocked operations, document lessons learned, and support product configuration changes.
• Coordinate with NDT, welding, technician, controls, equipment, analysis, and quality teams; train technicians and drive improvements in throughput, turnaround time, and first-pass quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of manufacturing or production engineering experience, ideally with complex hardware, test stands, or quality-critical production.
• Ability to read engineering drawings and technical documentation, including GD&T.
• Experience with root cause analysis, corrective action processes such as RCCA or 8D, and nonconformance management.
• Experience with an MES or electronic work instructions and work orders.
• Hands-on troubleshooting of electro-mechanical equipment, instrumentation, data acquisition, or controls systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including clear shift handoffs and documentation; ability to coordinate with engineers and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced team environment.
• Sound judgment for making third-shift engineering decisions within established guardrails and knowing when to stop work and escalate.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs occasionally; perform typing, standing, stooping, and sitting for extended periods.
• Completion of required lockout/tagout, cryogenic safety, laser, and radiation-area-awareness training; dedication to mitigating hazards involving heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead, high voltage, and cryogenics.
• Willingness to occasionally travel or work required nights, weekends, or on-call shifts.

Nice to have

• Experience with superconducting magnets, HTS tape or cable, cryogenic hardware, cryogenic test stands, or high-current or high-voltage test equipment.
• Experience with laser or TIG welding, weld inspection methods such as VT, RT, or UT, or NDT certification.
• Experience with voltage taps, cryogenic temperature sensors, fiber-optic sensing, data acquisition, and time-series tools.
• Experience with Manufacturo, Odoo, Jira, or similar MES, quality, and ticketing systems.
• Experience with NX or similar CAD software; work instruction writing, process mapping, and capacity modeling.
• Familiarity with Python or similar tools for reviewing test data.
• High self-motivation, fast execution, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced environment guided by integrity, execution, impact, and self-critique.
• Collaborate across manufacturing engineering, production, NDT, welding, controls, equipment, analysis, and quality teams.
• Support a mission focused on commercially viable fusion energy and the energy industry of the future.
• Work a fixed Monday–Friday overnight schedule with a 15% third-shift pay differential.
• Employment is subject to compliance with U.S. laws concerning export-controlled or protected technologies and information.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer.