Jobs at Xcimer Energy Corporation

Own and deliver control, data acquisition, interlock, and test systems for large experimental laser facilities. Lead requirements, architecture, software development, integration, verification, validation, commissioning, and lifecycle support. Coordinate sprint planning, task assignments, releases, system interfaces, test campaigns, and operator feedback across multidisciplinary engineering teams. Develop Python and LabVIEW solutions, integrate instrumentation and communication protocols, troubleshoot hardware and software, and implement automated, regression, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Leads systems engineering for an inertial fusion energy program, maintaining integrated technical baselines, requirements traceability, architecture, interfaces, documentation, risk mitigation, verification, and specialty engineering. Coordinates technical decisions across cross-functional teams and supports the development, integration, testing, and activation of complex facilities and systems. The role also provides technical oversight, configuration management, stakeholder communication, and project planning for large-scale energy infrastructure.

This 12-week onsite internship involves supporting electrical, pulsed-power, control systems, hardware, simulation, manufacturing, and other engineering projects for laser-driven inertial fusion systems. Interns work with expert mentors on real-world technical challenges, applying engineering skills through design, analysis, modeling, research, and development activities. The role is based at Xcimer Energy headquarters in Denver, Colorado.

Manages Xcimer’s DOE public-private partnership, coordinating milestones, deliverables, proposals, reporting, technical teams, consultants, and external stakeholders. Establishes and tracks cost and schedule baselines for Fusion Pilot Plan deliverables, monitors performance, communicates program health and risks, and supports engineering and science teams executing complex fusion energy R&D programs.

Leads the enterprise PMO by defining its mandate, operating model, governance, standards, tools, and roadmap. Builds and manages the central PMO team while coordinating matrixed program managers across Fusion and Defense. Establishes consistent practices, decision rights, risk management, health reviews, reporting, and capability development, partnering with executives and technical leaders to improve execution without creating unnecessary process.

Directs Xcimer Energy’s large-scale inertial fusion energy program, overseeing technical integration, system architecture, schedules, budgets, risks, governance, and delivery. Leads multidisciplinary engineering, science, and operations teams across fusion physics, lasers, targets, chamber, fuel cycle, controls, and infrastructure. Establishes program priorities, resolves cross-functional technical issues, manages resources and stakeholders, and guides development from concept through construction readiness, commissioning, and operational demonstration.

Designs, integrates, aligns, and tests UV laser beamlines and diagnostic systems for inertial fusion. Owns optical architectures, performance requirements, tolerancing, component sourcing, supplier relationships, and verification. Collaborates with opto-mechanical, electrical, mechanical, and physics teams on adaptive optics and beam-tracking systems. Requires expertise in optical design software, MATLAB or Python, precision alignment, optical metrology, and high-energy or deep-UV optical systems.

Own manufacturing processes for a wound film capacitor production line, including process documentation, capability, yield, corrective action, SPC, PFMEA, equipment qualification, tooling, change control, operator training, safety, and continuous improvement. The role is floor-facing and focused on improving quality, throughput, cycle time, cost, and process discipline while supporting production scaling and high-voltage testing.

Leads the operation, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting, and upgrades of fluids, vacuum, and cryogenic systems supporting superlaser experiments. Develops operating schedules, procedures, limits, and preventive maintenance requirements; leads engineers and technicians during hands-on work; reviews post-experiment data; and resolves anomalies and non-conformances while ensuring systems are safe, reliable, and available for scheduled tests.

Design, analyze, build, test, and operate mechanical systems for laser, pulsed power, vacuum vessel, and inertial fusion equipment. Responsibilities include 3D modeling, pressure vessel design, FEA, instrumentation integration, procurement, assembly oversight, manufacturing support, testing, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration through prototype and reactor-scale development.

Design, analyze, procure, assemble, align, and test precision opto-mechanical hardware for deep-UV, high-energy laser systems. Develop CAD models, GD&T drawings, tolerance stack-ups, FEA analyses, interface documents, and test plans. Collaborate across optical, controls, and systems engineering, support manufacturing and integration, and troubleshoot hardware in labs, cleanrooms, and manufacturing environments. Senior engineers lead subsystem designs, manage interfaces, and mentor junior engineers.

Own the complete lifecycle of large-optic mounts and supporting structures for high-energy deep-UV laser systems. Design trusses, weldments, optical benches, adjustment mechanisms, and handling fixtures; perform structural-thermal-optical and vibration analyses; validate designs through modal testing and optical metrology; create CAD models, GD&T drawings, and interface documentation; support fabrication, cleanroom assembly, integration, and troubleshooting; and mentor mechanical engineers.

Owns adaptive optics and wavefront control for directed-energy laser systems, including requirements, performance modeling, error budgets, architecture, vendor engagement, integration, testing, and commissioning. The role leads technical trade studies, develops risk-reduction experiments, oversees closed-loop control integration, and translates beam-control advances to fusion programs. It also establishes group standards, mentors engineers and scientists, supports hiring, and directs technical work across partner and internal teams.

Develop adaptive optics systems for high-energy laser applications, including wave-optics models, control and optimization algorithms, beam shaping, wavefront sensing, deformable mirrors, alignment, calibration, and hardware integration. Characterize aberrations, turbulence, thermal drift, and vibration; define optical requirements and error budgets; collaborate with vendors and controls engineers; and document testing and calibration procedures for inertial fusion energy systems.

Lead cross-functional business operations strategy and execution, translating executive decisions into resourced initiatives. Own operational process design, documentation, training, rollout, adoption reviews, headcount planning, forecasting, knowledge management, risk mitigation, and data workflow improvements. Partner with Finance, PMO, and executive stakeholders on economic modeling, program prioritization, budgeting, board materials, and investor reporting. Manage ambiguous operational projects through implementation and sustainable handoff.

Operate, troubleshoot, maintain, and improve high-voltage pulsed-power systems for an experimental laser facility. Perform electrical diagnostics, waveform analysis, component testing, corrective and preventive maintenance, commissioning, and system upgrades. Develop operating procedures, checklists, alarms, interlocks, and equipment records. Qualify as a Pulsed Power Controller, execute laser experiment procedures, support Shot Directors, and contribute to root-cause investigations and reliability improvements.

A 12-week onsite engineering internship supporting the design and development of laser-driven inertial fusion hardware and software. Responsibilities may include controls systems engineering, mechanical and thermal analysis, systems engineering, manufacturing, electrical engineering, simulations, nuclear engineering, optics, plasma physics, and pulsed power. Interns will work with expert mentors on real-world fusion power plant challenges.

Owns and integrates the Plant Control System across Xcimer’s inertial fusion plant program. Responsibilities include requirements stewardship, interface coordination, technical integration, budgets, schedules, risk mitigation, verification planning, commissioning readiness, procurement, and vendor management. The role coordinates multidisciplinary teams across plant systems, guides decisions without direct authority, and communicates program status and risks to senior stakeholders.

Optimize manufacturing of optical assemblies and related hardware for quality, throughput, and schedule performance. Responsibilities include DFM/A, translating designs into production hardware, authoring work instructions, improving processes, supporting assembly and rework, managing configuration and procurement, maintaining equipment, resolving nonconformances, validating safety procedures, and mentoring manufacturing engineers and technicians.

Optimize manufacturing of pulsed power assemblies through DFM/A, work instructions, validation procedures, hands-on assembly support, quality improvement, configuration management, and repair or rework processes. The role translates engineering designs into operational hardware, supports production teams, manages procurement and equipment, validates safety procedures, resolves nonconformances, and mentors manufacturing engineers and technicians in an onsite R&D environment.