Director - Control, Instrumentation, and Diagnostics (CID) Systems

About Thea Energy:   Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future.   Position Overview: Thea Energy is seeking a Director - Control, Instrumentation, and Diagnostics (CID) Systems to lead the control and data systems for the Company’s Eos integrated stellarator. This leader will build and manage a team spanning control systems, instrumentation, diagnostics acquisition, embedded software, and real-time integration. The Director will own the Eos CID architecture end to end and partner closely with systems engineering, physics, safety, and program teams. This role has a high degree of autonomy and must be able to move quickly.