# R&D Technician - First Shift

Join the power movement as an R&D Technician The R&D Technician is an exciting and evolving role with a responsibility for assisting R&D staff with all aspects of product development, commercialization, and on-going manufacturing support, including prototype production, process monitoring, troubleshooting, and any related activities. Ensures functional operation and preventative maintenance of equipment and continuous improvement. Responsibilities include close cooperation with Operations, Maintenance, Quality and other departments to ensure goals and objectives are met. This role will lead the way to making Earth sustainable for the future to come. What you'll do: Assist in building new products and magnet prototypes Prepare prototypes for internal and/or external customer evaluation and to ensure robustness Conduct process monitoring activities, equipment capability & production trouble-shooting, identifying, communicating and implementing viable solutions Set-up, operates, troubleshoots, and maintains R&D equipment Assist in Installation and readiness of new projects Assist the Senior R&D Staff with testing, specification development, establishment of manufacturing processes and

- **Id**: 4209588
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/commonwealth-fusion-systems-rd-technician-first-shift-2>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Somerville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:47:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T01:35:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3802
- **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**: 83
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 52
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 30
- **Max**: 45
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: hour
- **Usd annual**: 90000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

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

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 50
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T03:58:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 90000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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