Jobs at Thea Energy

Leads the development, integration, commissioning, maintenance, and operational support of control and data systems for prototype equipment, test stands, and superconducting-magnet facilities. Manages a multidisciplinary engineering team, translates program requirements into safe and reliable systems, oversees instrumentation and controls software, coordinates vendors and interfaces, and directs testing, documentation, troubleshooting, and field work in hazardous laboratory and industrial environments.

Leads electrical engineering execution for fusion-energy prototype equipment, test stands, and superconducting magnet facilities. Manages multidisciplinary engineers and technicians, develops electrical architectures, power systems, converters, electronics hardware, safety systems, and EMC controls. Oversees requirements, design reviews, supplier execution, commissioning, testing, troubleshooting, configuration control, reliability, maintenance, and technical documentation. Requires substantial experience delivering complex electrical or power-supply systems and supervising engineering teams.

Perform advanced finite element analyses for stellarator systems, including nonlinear structural, thermal, vibration, and magnetic simulations. Develop complex models involving contacts, plasticity, large deformations, materials, and welds; optimize structural designs; and provide data-driven recommendations for critical engineering decisions. The role also includes scripting around FEA tools, supporting first-of-a-kind system development, improving designs, and providing technical guidance and peer review to junior analysts.

Performs advanced finite element analysis and coupled multiphysics simulations for stellarator systems, including thermal, structural, vibration, and magnetic loading. Develops system-level models, evaluates stress, fatigue, creep, and transient conditions, optimizes designs, and improves material models. Establishes FEA methodology, supports high-risk engineering decisions, mentors junior analysts, conducts peer reviews, and serves as a subject matter expert on weld evaluations and cryogenic material behavior.

Design and develop mechanical fusion components and subsystems for stellarator systems. Responsibilities include structural, thermal, and electromagnetic analysis; CAD design and drawings; tooling design; manufacturability; vendor and manufacturing support; commissioning; and qualification testing. The role requires collaboration with internal and external stakeholders and solving complex engineering problems in a fast-paced environment.

Leads the end-to-end design, fabrication, testing, commissioning, and factory deployment of large custom tooling, lifting rigs, fixtures, and handling equipment for fusion hardware. Responsibilities include structural analysis, supplier management, DFM/DFA, rigging safety, assembly planning, precision alignment, metrology, work instructions, and hands-on integration support for complex multi-ton systems.

Designs, analyzes, prototypes, manufactures, tests, and commissions mechanical components and subsystems for stellarator fusion systems. Responsibilities include structural, thermal, and electromagnetic simulation; CAD design and technical drawings; tooling; design for manufacturability; qualification testing; manufacturing support; progress reporting; stakeholder collaboration; and mentoring junior engineers.

Manage daily headquarters operations, facilities, supplies, purchasing, vendors, reception, deliveries, office lunches, and administrative support. Coordinate interviews, onboarding, orientation, intern programs, employee engagement, events, and corporate swag. Collaborate with facilities, marketing, communications, and management teams while identifying process improvements and supporting a rapidly scaling company.

Lead the development, validation, and scale-up of manufacturing processes for high-temperature superconducting magnets. Responsibilities include creating manufacturing documentation, designing and commissioning tooling and automated equipment, driving design for manufacturability, managing BOMs and workflows in PLM/MRP systems, evaluating suppliers, mentoring technical staff, and overseeing manufacturing schedules and budgets.

Leads manufacturing strategy, factory layout, process development, facility commissioning, capital equipment acquisition, and scale-up for high-temperature superconducting magnet production. Partners with design and physics teams on manufacturability, manages tooling and automated assembly systems, establishes process engineering and continuous improvement frameworks, resolves supplier and manufacturing bottlenecks, mentors technical staff, and oversees schedules, risks, and capital expenditures.

Leads thermal and cryogenic design for high-temperature superconducting magnet systems and test facilities. Responsibilities include modeling cooling systems, thermal and structural FEA, specifying cryogenic hardware, conducting prototype testing from 20K to 77K, troubleshooting vacuum and thermal issues, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep expertise in cryogenic engineering, vacuum systems, low-temperature materials, superconducting magnet cooling, cryocoolers, thermal simulation, CAD, cryogen handling, and sensor integration.

Lead the full lifecycle of large-scale high-temperature superconducting magnet systems for fusion hardware. Responsibilities include HTS cable and magnet design, multiphysics analysis, quench protection, manufacturing oversight, electro-mechanical and cryogenic integration, qualification testing, failure analysis, vendor management, commissioning, and program risk mitigation. The role requires extensive experience with fusion-scale superconducting magnets, large manufacturing programs, cryogenic testing, and cross-functional systems engineering leadership.

Lead hardware verification and validation for superconducting magnets, cryogenic systems, and high-vacuum components. Develop test strategies, oversee custom cryogenic and high-power test stands, analyze failure data, manage specialized vendors, and enforce safety standards. Mentor test engineers and technicians while collaborating across manufacturing, mechanical, electrical, controls, and physics teams to qualify fusion-energy hardware.

Lead the architectural design, development, and commissioning of automated reel-to-reel manufacturing systems for superconducting magnets. Own web handling, tension control, winding, steering, inline inspection, and process automation. Guide manufacturing and design teams as the technical subject matter expert, manage equipment vendors and integrators, and improve throughput, yield, and reliability through advanced electromechanical solutions.

Manage strategic sourcing and technical subcontracts for commercial fusion systems. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating complex supplier agreements, managing vendor performance against statements of work, protecting intellectual property, assessing global suppliers, coordinating engineering, finance, and legal stakeholders, and mitigating financial, operational, and legal risks.

Supports HTS magnet manufacturing and testing through documentation, tooling and fixture development, inventory and BOM management, procurement, quality checks, and production metric tracking. Collaborates with test engineers, magnet designers, and manufacturing engineers to apply lessons learned to future designs. The role includes hands-on prototyping, fabrication, assembly, commissioning, and multidisciplinary engineering problem-solving in an industrial facility with cryogenic, high-voltage, high-current, and magnetic hazards.

Manage and optimize high-bandwidth, low-latency VFX network infrastructure supporting render farms, storage, cloud rendering, artist collaboration, and remote workstations. Configure AWS Deadline Cloud, troubleshoot Maya and Arnold rendering, build asset-transfer and per-show environment systems, optimize Linux and Windows pipelines, and document architecture and procedures. The role requires strong Python and Bash scripting, networking, storage, systems administration, render-farm, and VFX pipeline expertise.

Support manufacturing engineering for HTS magnet assemblies: create and update SOPs, assist tooling/prototyping/commissioning, manage BOMs and inventory, evaluate vendor parts, track production metrics, and work with designers to incorporate shop-floor lessons. Also assist with basic IT/device support and documentation for employees.

Develop and implement manufacturing processes, tooling, and equipment for HTS magnet production. Create work instructions, BOMs, and quality criteria; procure vendor hardware; scale prototype processes to production; onboard technicians; track program milestones; and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

Lead verification and validation for superconducting magnets, cryogenic and vacuum systems. Develop test strategies, design/build cryogenic/high-power test stands, analyze failure modes, manage vendors, and lead a test engineering team to ensure safe, standards-compliant hardware validation for fusion systems.