Diagnostician (Fusion Diagnostics)

Location: Devens, MA, United States; on-site. The role may occasionally require travel, nights, weekends, and on-call work.

Salary: $134,000–$205,000 per year, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is developing commercially viable fusion power plants and assembling the SPARC tokamak to demonstrate net fusion energy.

What you will do

• Lead SPARC diagnostic subsystems through final design with scientists, designers, analysts, engineers, MIT-PSFC partners, and academic collaborators.
• Integrate technical input and ensure diagnostic designs support SPARC mission goals.
• Develop assembly, installation, calibration, and commissioning plans to support first plasma on schedule.
• Integrate diagnostics with plant-level and real-time plasma control systems.
• Test and operate diagnostic systems while obtaining physics results as quickly as possible.
• Contribute to a strong safety culture and provide feedback to academic partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, civil, nuclear engineering, or a relevant engineering field.
• Experience participating in the design of a new or upgraded scientific instrument comparable in scale and complexity to instruments used in magnetically confined fusion.
• Demonstrated use of scientific instruments to support an operational and/or research mission.
• Experience developing software with Python, Matlab, C++, or an equivalent technology for experimental data analysis and laboratory equipment automation.
• Relevant hands-on knowledge of diagnostic systems, such as vacuum systems, lasers, and calibration sources.
• Ability to understand concepts and tradeoffs bridging engineering and physics.
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs and perform extended climbing, typing, standing, or sitting.
• Willingness to occasionally travel or work nights, weekends, or on-call shifts.
• 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

• Experience designing and implementing a plasma diagnostic for a university-scale or larger magnetically confined fusion experiment.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced environment focused on integrity, execution, impact, and self-critique.
• Equity and competitive compensation.
• 13 company-wide holidays, flexible vacation days, and 10 sick days.
• Generous parental leave and health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer matching, professional growth opportunities, and team-building activities.