# Maritime FusionMember of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics San Francisco, CA · Full time Company website Apply for Member of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics We’re looking for a Plasma Physicist who’s not just into theory, but wants to design, simulate, and help build marine deployable tokamaks. You’ll spend your…
What you will do
- Running simulations across the full plasma + machine stack: plasma equilibrium and magnetic system optimization , stability & confinement, transport, edge physics, burning plasma physics, diagnostic system design, disruption mitigation .
- Using tools like POPCON, TokaMaker, ASTRA, TGLF, Fuse, CGYRO, BALOO, UEDGE, Bluemira, COMSOL, ANSYS, FEA, and OpenMC to analyze and optimize the full system.
- Developing models and workflows to connect simulations with real-world design constraints.
- Form relationships and foster collaboration with academic & government labs to further optimize and explore the tokamak design space.
- Solving hard problems.
What they are looking for
- Ph.D/M.S. in Plasma Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics, or similar (or equivalent experience).
- Experience modeling tokamaks or similar fusion devices — from grad school, postdoc, or industry.
- Strong coding and engineering fundamentals.
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Maritime FusionMember of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics San Francisco, CA · Full time Company website Apply for Member of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics We’re looking for a Plasma Physicist who’s not just into theory, but wants to design, simulate, and help build marine deployable tokamaks. You’ll spend your time running transport and system codes, exploring divertor concepts and operational scenarios, and conducting system level tradeoff studies. About Maritime Fusion Maritime Fusion is building fusion reactors for ships and off grid energy markets. En route on this endeavor we’re commercializing High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) cable technology for power distribution while advancing the physics basis of our HTS tokamak to decarbonize global shipping. Since participating in the world's leading startup accelerator, Y Combinator, we’ve moved quickly to plot the most pragmatic path to getting the First of a Kind (FOAK) fusion reactors out in the world in an application most primed to benefit from recent advances in HTS magnet technology. Our founding team brings a unique blend of hands-on engineering experience from Tesla and SpaceX, combined with deep academic expertise in plasma physics and fusion energy technology from academia and industry. Description What You’ll Be Doing: - Running simulations across the full plasma + machine stack: plasma equilibrium and magnetic system optimization , stability & confinement, transport, edge physics, burning plasma physics, diagnostic system design, disruption mitigation . - Using tools like POPCON, TokaMaker, ASTRA, TGLF, Fuse, CGYRO, BALOO, UEDGE, Bluemira, COMSOL, ANSYS, FEA, and OpenMC to analyze and optimize the full system. - Developing models and workflows to connect simulations with real-world design constraints. - Form relationships and foster collaboration with academic & government labs to further optimize and explore the tokamak design space. - Solving hard problems. What You Bring: - Ph.D/M.S. in Plasma Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics, or similar (or equivalent experience). - Experience modeling tokamaks or similar fusion devices — from grad school, postdoc, or industry. - Strong coding and engineering fundamentals. Compensation: $120k-200k salary + 0.1%-1% equity + bonuses Salary $120,000 - $200,000 per year Apply for Member of Technical Staff - Plasma Physics
