Jobs at Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Provides hands-on OT and IT infrastructure support at a manufacturing site, maintaining servers, network equipment, cabling, edge compute, endpoints, and security controls. Installs and configures networking hardware, manages assets, supports Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, collaborates with engineering and cybersecurity teams, responds to site security events, and creates technical documentation. The role is fully on-site, includes physical work around industrial equipment, and requires occasional on-call, nights, weekends, and travel.

Supports employees with AI tools, including onboarding, access provisioning, application development, testing, documentation, and training. Builds and maintains internal AI applications, works with LLM APIs, MCP servers, agent frameworks, RAG systems, and observability tools, and helps nontechnical teams identify and implement AI use cases. The role also requires awareness of security, data handling, industrial safety, and occasional on-call work.

Supports senior project managers with planning, scheduling, tracking, reporting, risk escalation, cross-functional coordination, and process improvement for engineering and assembly projects. Maintains schedules, milestones, action items, and project data using project-management tools. The role is an onsite internship in Devens, Massachusetts, requiring collaboration with technical and nontechnical teams and adherence to industrial safety requirements.

Supports controls engineering for advanced fusion equipment through schematic drafting, PLC programming and configuration, safety component selection, and control software specification, development, and testing. The intern may work on site in Milpitas and must follow stringent safety practices around industrial hazards, high voltage, cryogenics, and strong magnets. The role is intended for currently enrolled engineering students with electrical engineering coursework, automation experience, and completed circuits and power courses.

Administer and support enterprise PLM, ERP, and MES applications across engineering, manufacturing, and business teams. Responsibilities include user access management, ticket resolution, root-cause analysis, system configuration, documentation, training, license auditing, automation, user acceptance testing, release validation, and troubleshooting data flows between systems.

Leads controls engineering for complex manufacturing and test equipment, including conceptual development, system architecture, electrical schematics, PLC programming, SCADA modules, commissioning, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, vendor coordination, and process characterization. Provides technical leadership, mentors engineers, develops reusable automation solutions, manages equipment risks, and supports cross-functional alignment. The role requires onsite work, occasional travel, physical activity, and safety compliance in environments involving high voltage, cryogenics, magnets, fumes, and other hazards.

Manufacturing Engineering Interns will develop, implement, and qualify manufacturing processes; design tooling, fixtures, and jigs using CAD; create and maintain process documentation; support continuous improvement; and resolve production blockers. The role is on-site in Devens, Massachusetts, with potential nights, weekends, on-call work, and occasional travel. Interns must be enrolled in an engineering degree program and authorized to work in the United States.

Support industrial engineering and process improvement initiatives across production areas. Conduct time studies, collect and analyze data, map processes, and identify ways to improve productivity and reduce waste. Assist with production floor layouts, material flow, and workspace optimization. The role requires an engineering-related degree program, strong problem-solving and communication skills, safety awareness, and occasional flexibility for travel, nights, weekends, or on-call work.

Owns preparation, execution, validation, reporting, and closure of SPARC assembly testing. Reviews procedures, identifies hazards, supports pre-test planning, troubleshoots field issues, directs technicians, ensures compliance with safety standards, validates results, approves test reports, and captures lessons learned. Requires regular onsite work, occasional off-hours support, and work around significant industrial hazards including high voltage, cryogenics, pressure systems, and strong magnets.

Defines enterprise architecture strategy and roadmaps across ERP, PLM, MES, cloud, data, and operational technology systems. Leads solution design, governance, integrations, platform evaluations, modernization, security alignment, and digital-thread initiatives. Partners with engineering, manufacturing, finance, supply chain, IT, executives, and shop-floor teams to deliver integrated technology architectures and transformation plans. The role requires extensive enterprise architecture experience, PLM-ERP-MES implementation expertise, cross-functional communication, and occasional travel in an industrial environment.

Own the lifecycle of smaller automated equipment components, including mechanical mounting, pneumatic and electrical integration, PLC I/O mapping, commissioning, and manufacturing handoff. Troubleshoot production equipment, restore uptime, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement preventative fixes. Develop PLC code, electrical schematics, system architectures, and safety-compliant designs while leading reviews and coordinating vendors. Support process characterization, tooling, policies, and risk mitigation in a hands-on fusion manufacturing environment.

Leads complex fusion engineering projects from inception through completion, coordinating engineering, procurement, manufacturing, construction, and assembly stakeholders. Develops and maintains project plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, risk mitigation strategies, and status reporting. Drives non-HTS projects and critical-path assembly activities while resolving schedule conflicts, improving execution processes, and ensuring deliverables meet technical, cost, and timeline requirements.

Designs, implements, and improves manufacturing processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain quality. Responsibilities include process documentation, manufacturability collaboration, Lean and Six Sigma implementation, tooling and equipment procurement, troubleshooting, time studies, continuous improvement, safety compliance, and manufacturing automation evaluation. The role requires collaboration with design, production, quality, and supply chain teams in a fast-paced onsite environment.

Leads hardware and equipment engineering projects from scope definition through execution, managing work breakdown structures, schedules, budgets, staffing, BOMs, milestones, risks, and stakeholder communications. Evaluates project requests, resolves technical and operational challenges, supports vendor execution, and establishes project tracking routines and scalable processes for future factory and infrastructure programs.

Designs, implements, and optimizes manufacturing processes and assembly lines in a high-mix, low-volume environment. Responsibilities include process documentation, manufacturability collaboration, Lean and Six Sigma implementation, tooling and equipment procurement, troubleshooting, time studies, continuous improvement, safety compliance, and automation evaluation. The role requires hands-on leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and work in an industrial facility with various hazards.

Coordinates warehouse and material-management activities, including shipping, receiving, inventory control, cycle counts, purchase-order verification, audits, damaged-part quarantine, safety compliance, and KPI reporting. The role operates material-handling equipment, supports internal customers, maintains warehouse organization, and ensures compliance with HAZMAT and safety requirements in an onsite, fast-paced fusion-energy environment.

Leads a portfolio of complex R&D projects involving high-temperature superconducting magnet systems, from concept through prototype development and production ramp-up. Manages scope, schedules, budgets, risks, staffing, technical tradeoffs, and cross-functional matrix teams. Serves as a liaison among executives, engineering teams, suppliers, and external stakeholders while driving project execution, operational scale-up, and risk mitigation.

Designs and validates custom control boards, power supplies, sensing circuits, and RF electronics for SPARC’s high-power fusion systems. Responsibilities include circuit simulation, PCB design, technical specification development, prototype assembly, board bring-up, high-power RF transmitter operation, and hardware-software integration. The role collaborates with RF, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and external vendor teams in a hazardous, onsite facility environment.

Plans, writes, approves, and executes SPARC Assembly test campaigns, procedures, and instructions. Performs hazardous and high-voltage testing, risk analysis, troubleshooting, safety reviews, and lessons-learned activities. Ensures compliance with CFS, regulatory, and industry standards while supporting assembly operations, technician execution, and critical test activities onsite.

Coordinates assembly operations by purchasing production and clean room supplies, maintaining inventory, managing supplier orders, supporting onboarding, leading clean room training, and maintaining records. The role partners with Assembly, Purchasing, Quality, and HR to ensure materials, training, documentation, and compliance needs are met. It also provides administrative support, audit assistance, scheduling, and process improvement in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.