# Senior R&D Engineer

Join the power movement as a Senior R&D Engineer The NINT Magnet R&D team is responsible for testing and retiring risks for CFS's NINT (non-insulated-non-twisted) HTS magnets. This includes executing development test campaigns for CFS's next-generation NINT magnet technology, and leading RCCA efforts through analysis and testing to resolve issues that may arise with the SPARC NINT magnets currently in production, tokamak integration, and commissioning. HTS magnet technology is inherently multidisciplinary, and a successful Senior R&D engineer will seamlessly flex between disciplines and groups to effectively lead the execution of tests and projects on aggressive schedules supporting CFS's mission. The Senior R&D engineer must have a fundamental understanding of mechanical, electrical, materials, fluids, and systems engineering, or some combination thereof. It is also the role of the R&D engineer to constantly push and challenge the requirements, risks, and test objectives that they are given to help the combined stakeholders come to a consensus on why the planned test is required and what data is deemed essential for the outcome to be achieved. What you'll do: Develop new HTS magne

- **Id**: 3765512
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/commonwealth-fusion-systems-senior-rd-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Devens, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T17:10:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T23:15:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5682
- **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**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 134000
- **Max**: 205000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 205000

## Technologies

- **Siemens NX** — Optional: no
- **ANSYS** — Optional: yes
- **MATLAB** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T19:58:46Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:5, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 205000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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