Business Operations

Posted 19 Days Ago
San Leandro, CA, USA
In-Office
85K-140K Annually
Entry level
Energy • Renewable Energy
The Role
Work directly with the CEO and executive team on high-priority, ambiguous initiatives. Responsibilities include organizing cross-functional projects, creating structure and follow-through, and handling evolving business needs such as events, facilities, recruiting, communications, customer initiatives, investor preparation, and supply chain. The role requires strong initiative, accountability, communication, adaptability, and willingness to work extended hours, weekends, relocate to San Leandro, and occasionally travel.
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About Fuse

We are building one of the most potentially consequential companies of the century. Our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to fusion energy while safeguarding humankind. This is not a normal company. This is not a normal job. We are committed for the long term to win.

About the Role

You'll work directly with the CEO and executive team on whatever matters most. There is no fixed playbook and the scope will move with the company: events, facilities, university recruiting and collaboration, communications, customer initiatives, investor prep, supply chain, or something we have not encountered yet. The job is to understand what matters, organize it, and make sure it gets done. Low ego, high accountability, and direct exposure to leadership and customers from day one.

What We Value
  • Obsess about the details — sloppy work costs us later, so do it right the first time.

  • Care — pick up the trash. Do things no one asks you to do. Go the extra mile because you care.

  • Act with urgency — every hour matters more than it feels like it does.

  • Be responsible for the outcome, not just the task; if it is not working, it remains your problem until it is fixed.

  • Assume good intent — disagree openly, then commit fully once a call is made.

Core Responsibilities
  • Take on high-priority projects directly from the CEO and leadership team whatever the business needs most in a given week.

  • Move fast without a playbook: figure out what needs to happen and make it happen, even without a template to follow.

  • Work cross-functionally across the company, building context quickly on unfamiliar problems.

  • Bring structure and follow-through to ambiguous, high-stakes initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Demonstrated ability to move fast and figure things out without a playbook, shown through past work, projects, or other commitments that required real initiative under pressure.

  • Low ego, high accountability. Takes responsibility for outcomes without needing credit.

  • Comfortable operating with direct exposure to executive leadership and switching between very different types of projects.

  • Strong written and verbal communication.

Preferred Qualifications
  • A track record of high-level competitive commitment, whether athletics or a comparable high-intensity pursuit, that demonstrates discipline, coachability, and performing under pressure.

  • Exposure to fast-paced, ambiguous environments (startups, competitive sports, high-stakes academic programs).

Additional Requirements
  • This is not a remote position and will require relocation if not already local to Fuse's San Leandro, CA facility.

  • Position occasionally requires the ability to work extended hours and weekends when needed.

  • Position may require some business travel to other Fuse facilities.

Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

  • Relocation assistance for roles that require it.

  • Flexible time off. Take what you need, no accrual tracking.

  • 2 weeks of paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs).

  • Supportive leave of absence policies.

  • Paid leave for new parents.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Opportunity

Fuse is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Fuse is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, ancestry, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.

Skills Required

  • Demonstrated ability to move quickly and solve problems without an established playbook
  • Strong initiative under pressure, demonstrated through prior work, projects, or comparable commitments
  • Low ego and high accountability, with ownership of outcomes
  • Comfort working directly with executive leadership
  • Ability to switch between different types of projects
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to relocate to or already be local to Fuse's San Leandro, California facility
  • U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required ITAR authorizations
  • Track record of high-level competitive commitment through athletics or a comparable high-intensity pursuit
  • Exposure to fast-paced, ambiguous environments such as startups, competitive sports, or high-stakes academic programs
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The Company
HQ: Burlington, VT
38 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Fuse is on a mission to accelerate the world's transition to fusion energy while safeguarding humankind. Since 2019, we've built 3 functioning and record-breaking pulsed power fusion machines, with dual applications: commercial power generation (long term), and supporting the US and Allies' national security through radiation effects testing capabilities (immediate term). TITAN, our latest machine, is the world's first high-power (1TW) Impedance Matched Marx Generator, with experimental results peer-reviewed and published in Nature Scientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-67774-4 TITAN is the building block of our technology roadmap, leading to fusion pilot plant demonstration with APEIRON I. Learn more and apply to join at www.f.energy

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