Senior Scientific Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) team as a Senior to Principal level software engineer to help establish the architecture of an open-source pulse planning, simulation, and physics collaboration framework for tokamaks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field preferred
• Worked on software built upon by many other developers (e.g., an open-source physics library or an internal service used by other teams)
• Programming language: Python, including type hinting
• Completed a large project either in a strongly typed language or rigorously using the type hinting features of Python
• Able to independently set up a new software project, including CI/CD processes, linting, unit testing, and software documentation
• Basic understanding of numerical methods, linear algebra, and differential equations
• Able to understand the basics of the project’s physics aspects (e.g., undergrad-level electromagnetics and fluid dynamics)

Responsibilities

• Help create an open-source pulse planning, simulation, and physics collaboration framework for tokamaks
• Make software interfaces that meet the needs of multiple internal teams and outside collaborators (discover needs, build consensus, then implement)
• Help scientists incorporate their models/algorithms into high-quality software
• Implement CI/CD processes to reduce maintenance overhead and error rates

Preferred Qualifications

• Programming languages: C++, Rust, or experience with low-level performance and memory management
• Concurrency and parallelization
• Simulation and systems architecture
• Packaging and distribution of software to third parties, dependency management, and plugin systems
• Developer and contributor engagement