Mechanical Engineer - Remote Maintenance

About Commonwealth Fusion Systems:

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.

If that’s you and this role fits, we want to hear from you.

CFS is designing ARC as the world’s first commercial fusion power plant with the goal of bringing reliable and clean fusion energy to the grid. Due to device activation and commercial uptime needs, ARC will need periodic, fast, and reliable maintenance to be performed fully remotely. This will require novel solutions and integration in the fields of robotics, remote handling equipment (RHE), plant layout, manufacturing, and tokamak design.

ARC’s Remote Maintenance System will thus be a critical aspect of realizing CFS’s mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy.

The Remote Maintenance team is responsible for designing ARC’s Remote Maintenance System. As a Staff Remote Maintenance Engineer on the team, you will develop ARC’s maintenance scheme by designing RHE and collaborating with tokamak and plant engineering teams in the design of a maintainable power plant. You will play a key role in ARC’s pre-conceptual design phase along with other teams and navigate complex multi-disciplinary problems involving physics, neutronics, thermo-fluids, structures, maintenance, manufacturing, assembly, techno-economics, and other disciplines.

This role also requires proactive R&D in novel remote maintenance technologies.

• Lead the development and strategic execution of the operations for the ARC Remote Maintenance System
• Drive the conceptual design process of the ARC fusion power plant, providing experttechnical guidance for cross-functional teams
• Lead the design of ARC’s radiation hardened remote handling equipment (RHE) by incorporating a mix of existing robotic technologies, custom hardware, and remotely operated heavy lift equipment
• Perform expert-level maintenance assessments of the tokamak and plant to shape the development of ARC as a remotely maintainable power plant, defining processes that impact direct work and identifying/mitigating significant long-term risks
• Collaborate closely with tokamak engineering teams to assist in designing the ARC tokamak for remote maintainability and finding creative and novel solutions for tokamak joints
• Perform high level multi-disciplinary trade studies of solutions that involve complex and ambiguous us tradeoffs between physics, neutronics, mechanical, thermo-fluids, electrical, maintenance, materials, manufacturing, techno-economics, and other disciplines
• Lead multiple teams and manage projects to solve tough multi-disciplinary problems by resolving conflicts and driving key decisions across teams
• Define and own the key R&D strategy needed for the ARC remote maintenance program, and help establish/direct the plans for executing the R&D campaigns internally or with external partners
• Research established and cutting-edge remote handling solutions to assess their application in the ARC remote maintenance system to influence strategic shifts and novel approaches to improve performance, reduce cost, and increase reliability
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