# Senior Realtime Controls Software Engineer

Join the power movement as a Senior Algorithms and Simulation Software Engineer In this role you will be responsible for the design and implementation of real-time control algorithms, hardware communication, plus models and simulation frameworks necessary to verify those algorithms. Your algorithms will be used in critical, hard real-time applications in the SPARC project, as well as related projects. Your algorithms will generally be implemented in C++ and run as a Linux application. As a member of the Software Engineering team, you will be a hands-on technical contributor. You will be a champion of writing excellent quality, production-ready code for mission-critical real-time systems. You will collect functional requirements from customers and produce software solutions to meet these requirements. You will work with a variety of engineers to integrate your software into software testbeds, hardware testbeds, and the production tools. You will also contribute to the broader software ecosystem to improve tooling and processes used across the company. What you'll do: Develop mission-critical control algorithms Develop software to communicate with hardware sensors/actuators Develop s

- **Id**: 3997410
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/commonwealth-fusion-systems-senior-realtime-controls-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **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**: 2026-11-09T22:38:56Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:51:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2672
- **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**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T01:46:05Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 52
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 160000
- **Is top pay**: no

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