# R&D Engineer

Join the power movement as a R&D Engineer As an R&D Engineer, you will work dynamically across multiple engineering disciplines and cross-functional teams to execute critical projects and tests on fast-paced timelines in support of CFS’s mission. Our core mandate is to systematically retire technical risks for HTS Cable Magnets by developing experiments, prototypes, and specialized test stands, followed by rigorous testing to generate high-quality data. Strong foundational knowledge in physics, mechanical engineering, electrical systems, materials science, fluid dynamics, and finite element analysis (FEA) is essential. We are privileged with a high degree of cownership of the risks assigned to us, from initial concept to final validation: Stakeholder Collaboration & Consensus: Partner across R&D, Design, Manufacturing, and Procurement to critically evaluate requirements, clarify test objectives, and align stakeholders on necessary outcomes and essential data Design & Build: Engineer and construct targeted hardware, prototypes, and custom test systemsrequired to fulfill objective goals Testing & Commissioning: Commission setups, run experiments safely and methodically Sharing the

- **Id**: 4209587
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/commonwealth-fusion-systems-rd-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Somerville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T18:05:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T07:26:08Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5388
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Engineering

## Company

- **Id**: 8705
- **Name**: Commonwealth Fusion Systems
- **Domain**: cfs.energy
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/commonwealth-fusion-systems>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.778
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 50
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 107000
- **Max**: 160000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 160000

## Technologies

- **GD&T** — Optional: no
- **ANSYS** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T00:32:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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