Fusion Scientist

**Company**: Type One Energy Group, Inc. (d.b.a. Type One Energy)

**Job Vacancy**: Fusion Scientist (NOC 21100)

**Location**: 1140 West Pender St, Suite 440 Vancouver, BC, V6E 0A2, Canada

**Salary**: Base salary of Canadian $175,000 to $185,000 per year based on work experience, plus discretionary bonus of up to 15% of base salary.***

**Hours**: Full Time (40 hours per week)

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Language of Work**: English

**Reporting to**: Chief Technology Officer

**About Type One Energy**

Type One Energy Group is mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world.

The company was formed in 2019 by a team of globally-recognized fusion scientists with a strong track record of building state-of-art stellarator fusion machines, together with veteran business leaders experienced in successfully scaling companies and commercializing energy technologies.

**About the role**

Type One Energy is seeking a Fusion Scientist for the development of key technologies for the confinement and exhaust of a net-energy-producing stellarator fusion power plant. The job focuses on optimizing the geometry of the plasma-facing components to ensure an adequate combination of plasma performance, efficient and safe exhaust, and a long lifetime of the plasma-facing components.

**Responsibilities**
- Modeling the physical processes describing the edge region of a fusion plasma.
- Optimizing the geometry of the plasma-facing components to ensure an adequate combination of plasma performance
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and scientists to integrate plasma-facing component designs into the overall stellarator fusion power plant.
- Ensure that the design and optimization processes adhere to safety standards and regulatory requirements.

**Required Qualifications and Experience**
- Minimum a PhD in plasma physics or a closely related field.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience post PhD.
- Experience with developing and using diagnostic techniques relevant to plasma characterization i.e. electrostatic/electromagnetic probes and light emission spectroscopy
- Experience with fusion energy research, and possess relevant technological and engineering skills.
- Experience with simulation packages such as COMSOL and modern programming languages such as Python.
- Relevant work experience in feature engineering or topological optimization and a proven track record of innovation in a technological field
- Ability to communicate complex technological material to a broader audience, as evidenced through lecturing or public outreach.
- Experience with Machine Learning is an asset

**Benefits**:

- Four weeks of paid vacation per year.
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life and accidental death insurance.
- Long term disability cover

**Equality of Opportunity**

Type One Energy is An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

**Pre-employment screening**

**To Apply**

**Type One Energy Group, Inc.**

1140 West Pender St, Suite 440 Vancouver, BC, V6E 0A2, Canada

Telephone: +1 608 616 5965 Extn. 2