- Salary
- $215k – $250k
- Location
- Kearny, NJ
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Technology
- Seniority
- Director
- Source
- Lever
Description
Position Overview:
Thea Energy is seeking a Director - HTS Magnet Engineering to provide strategic and technical leadership over the design, build, and test of high temperature superconducting (“HTS”) magnets — the foundational component of Thea Energy’s planar coil stellarator. This role owns the magnet engineering roadmap end-to-end, manages engineering managers and cross-functional workstreams, and partners with executive leadership to align magnet development with company-wide program milestones. The Director will build organizational capability as the team scales rapidly, own key vendor and supply chain relationships, and represent magnet engineering in front of investors, partners, and technical stakeholders.
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution of the HTS magnet engineering program in alignment with company-wide fusion system milestones for Eos and Helios planar coil stellarator systems
- Ensure the magnet product roadmap drives synergy in our technology decisions between Eos and our powerplant Helios
- Lead, develop, and scale a multi-level organization of engineering managers, engineers, and analysts
- Decompose and develop magnet specifications and technical requirements based on overall system design and performance goals of Eos
- Provide senior technical oversight of Multiphysics analyses, design tooling, and data infrastructure supporting magnet development for the Eos magnet systems
- Drive design-for-manufacturing strategy and oversee transition from first builds to scalable production
- Own key vendor and supplier relationships for magnet hardware, negotiating quotes and ensuring delivery against qualification requirements
- Direct tooling, manufacturing, and test infrastructure investments needed to support the magnet program
- Define and oversee execution of the magnet testing strategy, including qualification and reliability testing
- Own program-level tracking and reporting of progress, risk, budget, and milestones to executive leadership
- Represent magnet engineering to internal stakeholders, investors, external partners, and the broader fusion community
- Partner with adjacent engineering, physics, and operations teams to ensure magnet development is integrated with overall stellarator design