Senior Mechanical Engineer - Assembly Equipment (Fusion)

Location: Devens, MA, United States; onsite. Required onsite 5 days/week when assembly operations with relevant tools are underway, with possible first- or second-shift assignment.

Salary: $134,000–$205,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global is developing commercially viable fusion power plants and the SPARC tokamak as part of the transition to fusion energy.

What you will do

• Own the design and complete engineering development of tooling, lifting equipment, manipulation systems, and support frames for moving, handling, guiding, and integrating SPARC system components.
• Develop assembly strategies, logic, methods, best practices, and movement plans while coordinating with system teams and adjacent subsystem experts.
• Analyze tool structures and kinematics, ensuring safe operation, access, precision alignment, and clearance from other systems.
• Support alignment plans for magnets and vessels and design tools for handling and manipulating parts to meet alignment requirements.
• Oversee external vendor fabrication, troubleshoot build issues, procure hardware, and assemble, proof, and activate tools onsite.
• Create assembly work-instruction packets and collaborate with tooling engineers, designers, coordinators, and personnel performing tokamak assembly.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering.
• 7+ years of mechanical engineering experience demonstrating project ownership.
• 4+ years overseeing an in-progress construction, manufacturing, or assembly/integration process.
• 4+ years of experience with CAD software.
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs and perform typing, standing, stooping, climbing, or sitting for extended periods.
• Ability to work in a facility with industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead, high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics.
• Compliance with U.S. export control laws concerning controlled or protected technologies or information is required.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of experience with Siemens NX.
• Experience with lifting operations, welding, piping and tubing construction and joining.
• Experience with highly complex or delicate assemblies, tightly packaged spaces, and fast-paced construction, manufacturing, or assembly/integration builds.
• Experience designing sizeable alignment and positioning fixtures.
• Experience manipulating heavy components and welding large structures.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced work environment guided by integrity, execution, impact, and self-critique.
• Collaborative, multidisciplinary work with physicists and engineers within CFS and MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center-sponsored research projects.
• Equal opportunity workplace that values diverse perspectives.