About the role
We’re looking for a Plasma Physicist who’s not just into theory—but wants to design, simulate, and help build marine deployable tokamaks. You’ll spend your time running transport and system codes, exploring divertor concepts and operational scenarios, and conducting system level tradeoff studies.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Running simulations across the full plasma + machine stack: plasma equilibrium and magnetic system optimization, stability & confinement, transport, edge physics, burning plasma physics, diagnostic system design, disruption mitigation.
- Using tools like POPCON, TokaMaker, ASTRA, TGLF, Fuse, CGYRO, BALOO, UEDGE, Bluemira, COMSOL, ANSYS, FEA, and OpenMC to analyze and optimize the full system.
- Developing models and workflows to connect simulations with real-world design constraints.
- Form relationships and foster collaboration with academic & government labs to further optimize and explore the tokamak design space.
- Solving hard problems.
What You Bring:
- Ph.D/M.S. in Plasma Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics, or similar (or equivalent experience).
- Experience modeling tokamaks or similar fusion devices— from grad school, postdoc, or industry.
- Strong coding and engineering fundamentals.
- Willingness to do the dirty work involved with early stage startups; assemble the office furniture, setup software licenses, form strong external industry relationships.
About Maritime Fusion
Fusion reactors for ships
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Job details
Salary
$120,000 - $200,000
Equity
0.1% - 1%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Total raised
$4.5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.