This position is intended for a strong hands-on controls engineer who can bridge advanced control methods and practical plant implementation. The role is expected to grow with the program and may expand over time toward broader subsystem ownership or architecture responsibilities.
Key Responsibility Areas:
• Develop control strategies, operating modes, control narratives, and sequence logic for assigned Eos subsystems.
• Support distributed control system design through preparation of control logic diagrams, I/O architecture, design-basis documentation, and subsystem interface definitions.
• Build and maintain dynamic models of plant and subsystem behavior using MATLAB, Simulink, Python, or similar tools to inform control design, operating setpoints, and transient analysis.
• Support design and tuning of classical and advanced control algorithms for thermal, fluid, electrical, and process systems.
• Coordinate with internal subsystem owners and external vendors to translate design requirements into implementable PLC, DCS, HMI, and supervisory control solutions.
• Prepare technical documentation including block diagrams, interface descriptions, validation plans, control philosophies, and test support packages.
• Contribute to integration of control functions across power supply systems, cryogenic systems, vacuum systems, utilities, plant support systems, and future plasma-related control interfaces.
• Support verification, commissioning preparation, issue resolution, and design reviews during conceptual and preliminary design phases.
Ideal Experience & Skillsets:
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Control Systems, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
• Two or more years of experience in control system development for complex industrial, energy, process, nuclear, aerospace, or scientific systems.
• Strong background in dynamic system modeling and control design, including classical and modern control methods.
• Strong proficiency with MATLAB and Simulink.
• Experience with Python or other technical programming environments.
• Familiarity with PLCs, DCSs, HMIs, SCADA, or other industrial control environments.
• Ability to prepare and communicate technical documentation clearly across cross-functional engineering teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to operate effectively in a multidisciplinary organization.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience with first-of-a-kind energy systems, advanced reactors, fusion systems, or other high-reliability engineered systems.
• Experience with vendor coordination and implementation oversight for control logic or subsystem controls.
• Experience with MIMO control, optimization-based control, robust control, estimation, or data-driven control methods.
• Familiarity with Linux, Git, and configuration-managed engineering workflows.
• Experience with thermal-hydraulic, power system, or process system dynamic modeling.
• Exposure to safety-related control functions, interlocks, or regulated plant environments.
Company Benefits:
- Salary range $120,000-$160,000
- Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)
- Employee equity stock options
- 20 days PTO
Requirements:
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to perform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time.
- 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Electrical, Mechanical, Control Systems, Nuclear Engineering, Physics, or related discipline.
- Two or more years of experience in control system development for complex industrial, energy, process, nuclear, aerospace, or scientific systems.
- Strong background in dynamic system modeling and control design (classical and modern control methods).
- Strong proficiency with MATLAB and Simulink.
- Experience with Python or other technical programming environments.
- Familiarity with PLCs, DCSs, HMIs, SCADA, or other industrial control environments.
- Ability to prepare and communicate technical documentation across cross-functional teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to operate in a multidisciplinary organization.
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs.
- Willingness to occasionally travel or work nights/weekends/on-call.
- Ability to work in a facility with industrial hazards (heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, high voltage/current, pressure systems, cryogenics).
- Experience with first-of-a-kind energy systems, advanced reactors, fusion systems, or other high-reliability engineered systems.
- Experience with vendor coordination and implementation oversight for control logic or subsystem controls.
- Experience with MIMO control, optimization-based control, robust control, estimation, or data-driven control methods.
- Familiarity with Linux, Git, and configuration-managed engineering workflows.
- Experience with thermal-hydraulic, power system, or process system dynamic modeling.
- Exposure to safety-related control functions, interlocks, or regulated plant environments.
What We Do
Thea Energy is a fusion energy company dedicated to creating a limitless source of zero-emission energy for a sustainable future. By reinventing the stellarator using arrays of mass-manufacturable magnets and dynamic software controls, they aim to commercialize scalable and economical fusion power systems, transitioning from scientific research to practical, commercial operations.
