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Thea Energy

Develops fusion power via planar-coil stellarators

Electrical Engineering Manager

Engineering LeadershipConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeKearny, NJ, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in electrical engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Six or more years of engineering experience across at least two relevant areas, such as industrial or facility power systems, electrical distribution, high-power electronics, power conversion, custom electronics hardware, embedded control hardware, or electrical systems for complex test facilities.
  • Three or more years of experience directly supervising engineers or leading an engineering team with responsibility for work assignment, coaching, performance feedback, and delivery.
  • A record of delivering complex electrical or power supply systems from requirements and design through prototype validation, integration, commissioning, and operational support.
  • Strong electrical safety judgment in high-voltage and high-current converters, stored energy systems, and industrial environments, including protection, grounding, isolation, interlocks, and safe test planning.
  • Experience with requirements, interfaces, verification planning, design reviews, configuration control, technical documentation, schedules, risks, and supplier execution.
  • Clear communication across technical disciplines and willingness to work directly with equipment during build, commissioning, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

  • Set clear work ownership and goals for direct reports; provide coaching, technical guidance, and performance feedback; and conduct reviews and recommend hiring, promotion, compensation, and development actions.
  • Translate program milestones into engineering work packages, resource estimates, schedules, review points, and acceptance criteria; track progress, risks, dependencies, and recovery actions across concurrent development efforts.
  • Build collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering and program teams and resolve working-level interface issues.
  • Develop detailed electrical architecture for assigned test stands and prototype equipment, including load lists, single-line diagrams, equipment specifications, cable and conductor sizing, panel and switchgear designs, grounding and bonding details, and equipment interfaces.
  • Perform or coordinate load-flow, short-circuit, protection coordination, transient, and power quality studies; keep models aligned with approved equipment, operating modes, and credible fault conditions.
  • Lead development and integration of high-power converters, DC power supplies, superconducting magnet power supplies, and approved energy storage or compensation equipment; coordinate thermal, sensing, protection, and controls interfaces.
  • Oversee analog, digital, mixed-signal, power, and embedded control hardware; guide component selection, schematic and PCB design, design review, prototype bring-up, design for manufacture, design for test, and hardware release.
  • Define electrical requirements, interface documents, verification methods, and acceptance criteria with systems engineering and equipment owners; maintain configuration control as prototypes and test programs evolve.
  • Manage the technical execution of approved supplier work packages, including submittal review, interface coordination, test witnessing, and acceptance evidence.
  • Lead working-level design reviews, prototype bring-up, load testing, failure mode and effects analysis, root cause analysis, factory and site acceptance tests, installation, commissioning, and troubleshooting.
  • Implement electrical protection, isolation, interlocks, emergency responses, lockout and tagout provisions, and fail-safe behavior; contribute to hazard analyses and verify protective functions before release.
  • Control electromagnetic interference and noise across boards, cabinets, cables, grounding, shielding, high-power switching equipment, instrumentation, and mixed-signal interfaces.
  • Establish inspection, preventive maintenance, spare parts, obsolescence, and change control practices for assigned systems; investigate recurring failures and improve availability, serviceability, and maintainability.
  • Maintain engineering records for assigned systems, including calculations, models, drawings, schematics, bills of material, cable and wiring schedules, test procedures, configuration baselines, operating instructions, maintenance instructions, and acceptance records.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with electrical distribution, switchgear, transformers, protection relays, grounding and bonding, short-circuit and coordination studies, power quality, harmonics, transient behavior, and dynamic loads.
  • Experience with high-power converters, rectifiers and inverters, DC power supplies, superconducting magnet power supplies, energy storage or compensation systems, gate drives, sensing, protection, control, and thermal management.
  • Experience with analog, digital, mixed-signal, and embedded electronics; schematic capture and PCB layout; component derating; prototype bring-up; hardware debugging; and design for manufacture and test.
  • Experience with ETAP, DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSCAD, SKM, CYME, PLECS, LTspice, MATLAB and Simulink, Altium Designer, OrCAD, or equivalent tools.
  • Experience with oscilloscopes, logic and power analyzers, electronic loads, high-voltage and current probes, insulation and hipot test equipment, and safe load testing.
  • Experience with fusion devices, superconducting magnet test facilities, accelerators, advanced nuclear or energy systems, aerospace test systems, or other large scientific or high-power industrial facilities.

About the Company

Thea Energy

Develops fusion power via planar-coil stellarators

Thea Energy develops fusion-based power technology to provide scalable, zero-emission baseload electricity for utilities and heavy industry. Its approach uses a reimagined stellarator with flat, planar superconducting coils controlled by software-defined systems, replacing the traditional complex magnet geometry to lower costs and improve serviceability. Its Eos neutron-source device and Helios commercial power plant concept illustrate a pipeline from research to grid-ready power, backed by DOE milestones and public-private partnerships. The company aims to commercialize fusion as a dependable grid-level energy source and win long-term offtake agreements with utilities and large customers.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$145.8M
Headquarters
Princeton, NJ
Founded
2022

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