Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer

Join us in our mission to commercialize fusion energy ⚡️  

We’re all about solving climate change through fusion energy, one stellarator at a time. Our impressive team of globally recognized fusion scientists along with veteran business leaders with experienced in scaling energy technologies, came together with the ambition to fulfill the bold decadal vision of commercial fusion.

If changing the world wasn’t incentive enough, here’s why you should join us:

We designed, built, and operated the world’s leading stellarators.

We aim to commercialize fusion energy in 10 years.

We know what we’re doing - our leadership team has over 150 years of experience combined.

We’ve already been recognized for our work by the Department of Energy through awards and funding.

Our philosophy accepts no intellectual boundaries and celebrates creativity. 

If you are searching for the best new ideas and share our vision, join us as a “Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer”. This is what you need to know:

Location: Knoxville, TN

Salary: Highly Competitive Plus Benefits

Contract: Permanent, full time

Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer

Your role in the mission:

Type One Energy is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer to join our team working on the exciting development of a next-generation stellarator fusion energy plant. This role is critical to our mission of creating a cost-effective and commercially viable fusion energy solution.

As a Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining a comprehensive system model of our stellarator plant. This model will serve as a central platform for understanding plant behavior, exploring design trade-offs, identifying key cost drivers, and ultimately optimizing plant design for minimal cost while maintaining performance and safety. 

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of physicists and engineers to ensure the model accurately represents the complex interactions within the stellarator system and its subsystems.

Key Responsibilities

You will develop and maintain system models, creating and maintaining a detailed, multi-domain system model of the stellarator plant using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies and tools (e.g., SysML, Cameo Systems Modeler, PROCESS, Bluemira etc.).

You will be responsible for the Integration and further development of plant models, including but not limited to:

• Physics Systems: Magnetic confinement, heating and current drive, diagnostics.

• Engineering Systems: Vacuum vessel, magnets (superconducting and normal conducting), cryogenics, power systems, cooling systems, tritium breeding and handling, remote handling.

• Plant Support Systems: Buildings, infrastructure, safety systems, control systems.

• Reliability, availability, maintainability, inspectability (RAMI) engineering support: Utilize integrated plant models to investigate the impact of individual components on overall plant performance from a RAMI perspective.

• Cost and Economic Models: Integrate cost models and economic analysis into the system model to understand cost drivers and perform trade studies.\\

You will also be responsible for:

• Develop and Maintaining integrated systems codes in Python or equivalent.

• Ensure model consistency, traceability, and adherence to MBSE best practices.

• Document model architecture, assumptions, and validation results.

• Requirements Management and traceability

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document system and subsystem requirements.

• Link requirements to model elements to ensure traceability and verification.

• Utilize the system models to explore different plant architectures and design options.

• Conduct trade studies and sensitivity analyses to evaluate the impact of design choices on performance, cost, and risk.

• Support the development of system and subsystem specifications based on model insights.

• Use the model to support risk assessment and mitigation strategies.

• Work closely with the finance team to integrate cost models into the systems model, to understand cost tradeoffs.

• Work closely with physicists, engineers, business teams to gather input, validate models, and communicate results.

• Present model findings and recommendations to technical and management audiences, and participate in design reviews.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related engineering/scientific discipline.
  
• Minimum 10 years of experience in the design stage of complex projects, exploring design tradeoffs
  
• Proven experience in developing and applying system models for complex engineering systems.
  
• Experience with MBSE methodologies (e.g., SysML, UPDM, DoDAF, etc.) and tools (e.g., Cameo Systems Modeler, Enterprise Architect, Rhapsody, etc.).
  
• Experience with simulation and analysis tools relevant to complex systems (e.g., MATLAB/Simulink, Python, Modelica, etc.).
  
• Experience with Fusion Specific tools (e.g. Process, Bluemira) preferred but not required.
  
• Experience with cost modeling and analysis is preferred but not required.
  
• Basic programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, MATLAB) for model automation and data analysis is beneficial.

We offer:

In addition to a basic salary and yearly target bonus, you will also get…

• Stock and share options 📈
• Relocation allowance 💰
• Insurance plans 🩺
• 401k retirement options 💸
• And many more great voluntary benefits 👀

Embrace the mission by submitting your application on our careers page, then head over to our website to learn more about the revolutionary team behind Stellarator technology.

About Type One Energy

Type One Energy Group is mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world. Established in 2019 and venture-backed in 2023, the company is led by a team of globally recognized fusion scientists with a strong track record of building state-of-the-art stellarator fusion machines, together with veteran business leaders experienced in scaling companies and commercializing energy technologies. Type One Energy applies proven advanced manufacturing methods, modern computational physics and high-field superconducting magnets to develop its optimized stellarator fusion energy system. Its FusionDirect development program pursues the lowest-risk, shortest-schedule path to a fusion power plant over the coming decade, using a partner-intensive and capital-efficient strategy. Type One Energy is committed to community engagement in the development and deployment of its clean energy technology. For more information, visit www.typeoneenergy.com.

Equal Opportunity Statement 

Type One Energy is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, searching for the best new ideas and remaining open to unique perspectives. Therefore, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment independent of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply.