Thea Energy
Director - Control, Instrumentation, and Diagnostics (CID) Systems
Kearny, NJ · Director
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$240kDetected 138 days ago
C++LinuxProcurementPerformance ManagementAutoCADFPGAEmbedded SystemsSystems EngineeringPLCElectrical EngineeringControlsLabVIEWLeadershipCommunicationSCADA
About the role
- About Thea Energy: Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other
- stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary organization spanning control systems, instrumentation, diagnostics acquisition, embedded software, and real time integration, including hiring, performance management, career development, and team structure.
- Oversee diagnostic acquisition architecture end to end, from front end sensors and conditioning through digitizers, FPGA processing, data streaming, and archiving in support of plasma operations and feedback control.
- Partner with systems engineering to translate device requirements into CID requirements, interface definitions, and verification plans.
- Run evidence based technical gates and design reviews, with clear entry and exit criteria and configuration control.
- Own delivery artifacts such as requirements, interface control documents, design packages, test plans, and acceptance evidence to support procurement, installation, and commissioning.
- Maintain a strong safety culture including machine protection thinking, hazard analysis inputs, and design choices that support safe installation and operations.
- Provide hands on leadership in lab and field environments, coordinating with technicians and test teams for build, wiring, installation support, and debug.
Requirements
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs.
- Willingness to occasionally travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call.
- Ability to work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics.
- The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures.
- Own Safety and Interlock System philosophy, including safety class logic where required, participation in hazard analyses, and alignment to functional safety practices and standards.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Controls, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent.
- 5 or more years of engineering management experience leading multi team organizations, including hiring and performance leadership.
- Demonstrated experience owning complex system development from architecture through prototype validation and integration.
- Experience delivering CID systems for fusion devices, accelerators, advanced nuclear, or other large scientific facilities with tight timing and data fidelity requirements.
- Experience with EPICS or TANGO, and industrial integration protocols such as OPC UA, DDS, Modbus, and deterministic timing networks.
Skills
- LabView, EPICS, TANGO, OPC UA, DDS, Modbus, TCP IP.
- PXIe digitizers, FPGA platforms, event and timestamping frameworks, data streaming infrastructure.
- AutoCAD Electrical, EPLAN, tag databases, input and output lists, cable schedules and loop diagrams.
Compensation
- Salary range $120,000-$240,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
- Employee equity stock options
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