Manager – Disruption Physics
| Company | Commonwealth Fusion Systems |
|---|---|
| Location | Devens, MA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- PhD in experimental plasma physics or a closely related field
- 5+ years experience (post degree) in plasma physics or fusion research
- Experience planning and executing experiments on tokamaks, stellarators, or similar plasma confinement devices
- Experience managing graduate students, post-docs, and/or other scientists
- Experience interpreting and analyzing experimental data relevant to disruptions and MHD
- Deep knowledge of disruption physics
- A desire for active participation in tokamak design and operations
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work with collaborations from a variety of academic institutions
Responsibilities
- Manage and develop a team of disruption scientists that work on the topics listed here
- Interface between disruption physics and the plasma control system for disruption avoidance, prediction, and triggering of disruption mitigation
- Manage the development of disruption off-normal warnings, off-normal events, and off-normal simulations for input to simulation software
- Provide the physics input necessary to complete the design and commissioning of SPARC’s massive gas injection and runaway electron mitigation systems
- Develop physics and engineering root-cause workflows to evaluate and reduce the frequency of disruptions during SPARC operations
- Manage the tracking and diagnosis of disruptions during SPARC operations
- Coordinate all disruption physics input to SPARC operation and ARC design
- Identify and fill knowledge gaps by coordinating the work of external collaborators working on disruptions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Python