Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer

Join us in our mission to commercialize fusion energy ⚡️  

We’re all about solving climate change through fusion energy, one stellarator at a time. Our impressive team of globally recognized fusion scientists along with veteran business leaders with experienced in scaling energy technologies, came together with the ambition to fulfill the bold decadal vision of commercial fusion.

If changing the world wasn’t incentive enough, here’s why you should join us:

We designed, built, and operated the world’s leading stellarators.

We aim to commercialize fusion energy in 10 years.

We know what we’re doing - our leadership team has over 150 years of experience combined.

We’ve already been recognized for our work by the Department of Energy through awards and funding.

Our philosophy accepts no intellectual boundaries and celebrates creativity. 

If you are searching for the best new ideas and share our vision, join us as a “Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer”. This is what you need to know:

Location: Knoxville, TN

Salary: Highly Competitive Plus Benefits

Contract: Permanent, full time

Reporting to: Chief Technology Officer

Your role in the mission:

Type One Energy is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer to join our team working on the exciting development of a next-generation stellarator fusion energy plant. This role is critical to our mission of creating a cost-effective and commercially viable fusion energy solution.

As a Senior Integrated Plant Modeling Engineer, you will be instrumental in developing and maintaining a comprehensive system model of our stellarator plant. This model will serve as a central platform for understanding plant behavior, exploring design trade-offs, identifying key cost drivers, and ultimately optimizing plant design for minimal cost while maintaining performance and safety. 

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team of physicists and engineers to ensure the model accurately represents the complex interactions within the stellarator system and its subsystems.

Key Responsibilities

You will develop and maintain system models, creating and maintaining a detailed, multi-domain system model of the stellarator plant using Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) methodologies and tools (e.g., SysML, Cameo Systems Modeler, PROCESS, Bluemira etc.).

You will be responsible for the Integration and further development of plant models, including but not limited to:

• Physics Systems: Magnetic confinement, heating and current drive, diagnostics.

• Engineering Systems: Vacuum vessel, magnets (superconducting and normal conducting), cryogenics, power systems, cooling systems, tritium breeding and handling, remote handling.

• Plant Support Systems: Buildings, infrastructure, safety systems, control systems.

• Reliability, availability, maintainability, inspectability (RAMI) engineering support: Utilize integrated plant models to investigate the impact of individual components on overall plant performance from a RAMI perspective.

• Cost and Economic Models: Integrate cost models and economic analysis into the system model to understand cost drivers and perform trade studies.\

You will also be responsible for:

• Develop and Maintaining integrated systems codes in Python or equivalent.

• Ensure model consistency, traceability, and adherence to MBSE best practices.

• Document model architecture, assumptions, and validation results.

• Requirements Management and traceability

• Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit, analyze, and document system and subsystem requirements.

• Link requirements to model elements to ensure traceability and verification.

• Utilize the system models to explore different plant architectures and design options.

• Conduct trade studies and sensitivity analyses to evaluate the impact of design choices on performance, cost, and risk.

• Support the development of system and subsystem specifications based on model insights.

• Use the model to support risk assessment and mitigation strategies.

• Work closely with the finance team to integrate cost models into the systems model, to understand cost tradeoffs.

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