# Senior Systems Engineer - Fusion Engine

Overview Inertia Enterprises Inc. is developing the technologies for a fusion energy power plant. We are seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to help define and integrate the fusion engine systems that capture fusion energy and support its conversion into usable power within a coherent, verifiable plant design. Reporting to the Chief Systems Engineer, this senior individual contributor will lead systems engineering for the fusion engine in close partnership with Thunderdome leadership and technical teams. The role will connect the first wall, blanket, vessel, chamber gas handling, heat and tritium transfer, and balance of plant interfaces; balance performance, safety, lifetime, availability, and cost budgets; and represent the fusion engine at system-level technical meetings. The role supports design owners with requirements, analyses, trade studies, and evidence, while technical design decisions remain with the responsible leads. What You’ll Get to Do Develop and maintain fusion engine functions, architecture, requirements, and verification approaches, tracing key engine specifications to plant needs, operating scenarios, and target physics. Work with technical leads to allocate and

- **Id**: 4284570
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/inertia-senior-systems-engineer-fusion-engine>
- **Role**: Sales
- **Role family**: Sales
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Livermore, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T19:24:42Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T17:18:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5109
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- **Benefits**: 401k plan
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Nuclear Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 679185
- **Name**: Inertia
- **Domain**: inertia.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/inertia-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 265000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 265000

## Technologies

- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:24:47Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 215
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 265000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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