Focused Energy Inc.

Architect

• Own the integrated development plan for Focused Energy’s Biblis facility
• Translate technical requirements into coordinated facility, utility, planning, and permitting workstreams
• Align engineering teams with RWE/Biblis stakeholders and external design partners
• Define a phased, executable site, building, and infrastructure plan
• Lead the RWE and site-owner interface on facility planning, infrastructure constraints, utilities, and long-term site expansion
• Translate engineering needs into facility requirements across lasers, targetry, diagnostics, controls, cleanrooms, electrical systems, safety, and operations
• Drive German design and permitting strategy, including required approvals, regulatory constraints, fire protection requirements, and risk assessment
• Coordinate external architects, planners, consultants, and utilities partners
• Maintain visibility of facility options, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and cost/schedule implications to support senior decisions

Facilities Architect

Engineer

• Execute integration and qualification tests according to approved test plans and operating procedures
• Maintain and prepare test rigs, lab hardware, software, and configurations for upcoming campaigns
• Perform precision alignment and safe operation of optics and laser systems
• Support the build, teardown, troubleshooting, and upgrades of test rigs alongside senior engineers
• Work with scientists to translate test procedures into executable sequences during test campaigns
• Document test results, issues, and observations for diagnosis and resolution
• Provide hands-on technical support across the engineering team
• Follow established safety practices and proactively flag potential hazards or gaps

Prototype Engineer

Research Scientist

• Serve as the most senior technical authority on the Digital Twin team
• Integrate physics modeling efforts across laser, target, chamber, target injection/tracking, and manufacturing subsystems
• Lead scientists developing and owning simulation codes for major IFE subsystems
• Validate subsystem code physics and rigorously quantify and report model uncertainty
• Set scientific direction, modeling standards, and validation philosophy for the Digital Twin team
• Lead development of an integrated IFE plant model
• Conduct trade-off analyses across design candidates and identify parameters affecting plant viability
• Work with experimental physics teams to validate simulation codes against shot data from Focused Energy, NIF, OMEGA, ELI, and others
• Collaborate with the Digital Twin team, national labs, and the broader IFE community
• Present modeling work to executive leadership, program management, and investors

Digital Twin Principal Scientist

Full-stack Engineer

• Define and maintain the end-to-end Core Software architecture for the fusion power plant
• Design and implement critical Core Software components using C++ and Python
• Define interfaces between software, control hardware, diagnostics, plant equipment, data systems, and operator tools
• Design automated calibration facilities and workflows producing traceable and repeatable results
• Set standards for architecture, coding, testing, observability, documentation, release, reliability, security, and fault tolerance
• Lead technical decisions across teams, mentor engineers, resolve trade-offs, and grow into a technical lead
• Report to the Head of Software

Principal Software Engineer

General

• Design, develop, integrate, and commission diagnostics for high-energy-density physics and inertial fusion experiments
• Support diagnostic development across optical, X-ray, charged-particle, neutron, and gamma-ray measurement domains
• Participate in defining diagnostic requirements for new experimental campaigns and facilities
• Collaborate with optical, mechanical, electrical, and controls engineers to translate diagnostic concepts into operational systems
• Assist with diagnostic alignment, calibration, commissioning, and experimental operation
• Analyze and interpret experimental data to evaluate diagnostic performance and extract scientific results
• Contribute to experimental planning, diagnostic documentation, and technical reports
• Support interactions with external collaborators, universities, and national laboratories

Laser Plasma Diagnostic Specialist

Machine Learning Engineer

• Design and deploy surrogate and reduced-order models that replace or accelerate high-fidelity multiphysics simulations
• Develop physics-informed machine learning and physics-informed neural networks embedding physical constraints into model architectures
• Build and maintain ML pipelines for training, validation, uncertainty quantification, and continuous refinement against experimental and simulation data
• Implement active learning and Bayesian optimization workflows to guide design-space exploration and reduce costly simulation runs
• Integrate trained ML models into the Digital Twin framework, interfacing with HPC simulation outputs and real-time sensor data
• Develop anomaly detection and predictive diagnostics models for laser subsystem health monitoring
• Apply reinforcement learning and Bayesian control approaches to optimize laser operating parameters
• Collaborate with Digital Twin architects, systems engineers, optical simulation scientists, and other interdisciplinary teams
• Establish best practices for model versioning, reproducibility, testing, and documentation
• Support faster design cycles, predictive system optimization, and real-time decision support across laser, targetry, and fusion programs

• Lead the design, development, integration, and commissioning of advanced diagnostics for high-energy-density physics and inertial fusion energy experiments
• Define and maintain the long-term diagnostic strategy and roadmap for current and future experimental facilities
• Lead diagnostic systems through concept, requirements definition, commissioning, operation, and continuous improvement
• Provide technical leadership across optical, X-ray, charged-particle, neutron, and gamma-ray diagnostic domains
• Define diagnostic requirements for new experimental campaigns and facility upgrades
• Coordinate optical, mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and data acquisition engineering efforts
• Oversee diagnostic integration, alignment, calibration, commissioning, and experimental operation
• Analyze experimental results and improve diagnostic performance and measurement capabilities
• Mentor junior scientists and engineers
• Build and maintain collaborations with universities, national laboratories, and industrial partners
• Contribute to strategic planning, technical proposals, scientific publications, and presentations

Senior Laser Plasma Diagnostic Specialist

• Define and maintain the end-to-end Core Software architecture for a fusion power plant, including device interfaces, calibration, data handling, data storage, and HMI
• Design and implement critical parts of the Core Software system using C++ and Python or similar languages
• Define interfaces between software, control hardware, diagnostics, plant equipment, data systems, and operator tools
• Design reliable automated calibration facilities and workflows producing traceable and repeatable results
• Set standards for architecture, coding, testing, observability, documentation, release, reliability, security, and fault tolerance
• Lead technical decisions across teams, mentor engineers, resolve difficult trade-offs, and grow into a lead within the Software Department
• Report to the Head of Software

• Design, implement, test, and deploy well-scoped software features
• Implement automated calibration software for hardware and machine workflows
• Build image processing software for target tracking, calibration, and engagement
• Implement reliable data handling and storage for machine and image data
• Add logging and basic monitoring
• Help implement supervisory control systems and human-machine interfaces (HMI)
• Collaborate with software, controls, systems, and other engineers to define interfaces, review code, document decisions, and address common failure modes
• Align software interfaces and test plans with stakeholders
• Communicate progress, technical trade-offs, risks, and timelines

Facilities Architect

Prototype Engineer

Digital Twin Principal Scientist

Principal Software Engineer

Laser Plasma Diagnostic Specialist

Machine Learning Engineer

Senior Laser Plasma Diagnostic Specialist

Principal Software Engineer

Controls Software Engineer