Techno-Economic Analyst

Commonwealth Fusion Systems is on a mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy.

Combining decades of research, top talent, and new technologies, we’re designing and building commercially viable fusion power plants. And we're working with policymakers, suppliers, and many others to build the energy industry of the future.

We’re in the best position to make it happen. Since 2018, we’ve raised $4 billion of capital, making us the largest and leading fusion company in the world.

Now we’re looking for more thinkers, doers, builders, and makers to join us. People who’ll bring new perspectives, solve tough problems, and thrive as part of a team.

For fusion power plants to be successful they must be economically competitive with other power generation technologies. The techno-economic analyst is responsible for developing models critical to evaluating fusion power plants’ financial viability and commercial desirability. The candidate will work closely with internal CFS team members to create and evolve economic models, run sensitivity analysis, identify opportunities for improvement and provide input to design, engineering, and R&D on impacts.

This role will serve an important function within the business development team supporting communicating the benefits of fusion energy to customers and key stakeholders.

• Continue the development of techno-economic modeling at CFS to characterize the future costs and benefits of CFS products including ARC, the world’s first commercial fusion power plant
• Incorporate expectations for learning and experience benefits as the company develops additional power plants
• Establish and maintain company best practices and lessons learned related to analytical methods and models. Systematically work to improve models and analysis over time
• Track and maintain current assessment of ARC competitiveness compared to other energy solutions
• Work closely with the Scientific Software team to maintain the modeling tools and their underlying assumptions over time
• Collaborate closely with Research and Development (R&D), Engineering, Manufacturing, Scientific Software, System Engineers, Finance, Business Development, and external stakeholders to collect primary data, populate techno-economic models, productionalize the model, and validate model fidelity
• Provide support for other functions and other duties as assigned.
  
  Prepare briefing materials, write and publish research results in internal technical reports and public facing presentations, including collaborations with key external partners
• Present and defend analysis and underlying assumptions to a wide range of audiences
• Support Investor Relations, Business Development, Corporate Finance, and Engineering teams as needed, and on-demand with queries and reports

• Support potential customers, sponsors, partners, and investors in diligence processes
• Support management in developing scope, budget, and schedule for new projects based on matching expertise and capabilities to research needs and project opportunities
• Apply quantitative and qualitative research, case studies, literature reviews, and learnings from internal and external subject matter experts to identify key variables and sensitivities important to determining the costs and value of ARC
• Support the evaluation of new R&D opportunities, Open Innovation pathways, technology advancement, and market opportunities
• Support potential customers, sponsors, partners, and investors in diligence processes
• Support management in developing scope, budget, and schedule for new projects based on matching expertise and capabilities to research needs and project…