Jobs at Xcimer Energy Corporation

Drive execution of the Inertial Fusion Energy Program’s Implosion System by managing integrated schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources, documentation, design reviews, experimental campaigns, partner commitments, budgets, and contracts. Coordinate target design, physics, fabrication, metrology, procurement, and external teams while tracking progress and escalating issues. Support project planning, cost accounting, statements of work, and execution across complex scientific and engineering R&D activities.

Supports planning and controls for Xcimer Energy’s Directed Energy program by maintaining schedules, baselines, work breakdown structures, budgets, milestones, KPIs, and project documentation. Coordinates engineering, manufacturing, procurement, vendors, and external partners; tracks cost and schedule performance; analyzes release metrics; supports program reviews; and escalates risks to program management. The role also facilitates cross-functional communication and helps ensure complex engineering projects meet milestones and reporting requirements.

Supports planning and controls for complex inertial fusion engineering projects by maintaining schedules, plans, documentation, milestones, costs, forecasts, and performance metrics. Coordinates engineering, manufacturing, procurement, finance, and program teams; analyzes schedule and cost variances, tracks risks, supports forecasting, and escalates issues to program management. The role requires Primavera P6 expertise, strong project controls experience, technical fluency, and cross-functional communication skills.

Designs, builds, and optimizes cryogenic systems for inertial fusion energy. Responsibilities include experimental research, ultra-low-temperature system design, COMSOL and Python modeling, thermal and fluid analysis, test-stand documentation, collaboration with national labs and universities, and knowledge transfer across multidisciplinary teams.

Develops LabVIEW and Python control, automation, and data acquisition software for pulsed laser test systems. Integrates instrumentation, DAQ hardware, timing, triggers, interlocks, and communications interfaces; executes verification procedures; troubleshoots hardware and software on the test floor; maintains automated tests, version-controlled code, and controls documentation; and supports experimental test campaigns.

Designs and owns electrical integration packages for control systems, including schematics, panel layouts, wiring, grounding, power distribution, cable schedules, and bills of material. Leads design reviews, change control, technician handoffs, fabrication support, checkout, commissioning, troubleshooting, and as-built documentation. Coordinates interfaces across controls, mechanical, pulsed power, optics, and facilities teams. The role also contributes to engineering standards, leads small work packages, and mentors junior engineers and technicians in an onsite pulsed-laser environment.

Designs, develops, integrates, and tests mixed-signal electronics and firmware for laser and pulsed-power systems. Responsibilities include PCB design in Altium, embedded C/C++ and FPGA firmware, real-time control, hardware bring-up, debugging, data acquisition, automated testing, system integration, documentation, and commissioning. The engineer owns boards end to end, leads small projects, collaborates across engineering and manufacturing teams, and mentors junior staff.

Own and deliver control, data acquisition, interlock, and test systems for large experimental laser facilities. Lead requirements, architecture, software development, integration, verification, validation, commissioning, and lifecycle support. Coordinate sprint planning, task assignments, releases, system interfaces, test campaigns, and operator feedback across multidisciplinary engineering teams. Develop Python and LabVIEW solutions, integrate instrumentation and communication protocols, troubleshoot hardware and software, and implement automated, regression, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Leads systems engineering for an inertial fusion energy program, maintaining integrated technical baselines, requirements traceability, architecture, interfaces, documentation, risk mitigation, verification, and specialty engineering. Coordinates technical decisions across cross-functional teams and supports the development, integration, testing, and activation of complex facilities and systems. The role also provides technical oversight, configuration management, stakeholder communication, and project planning for large-scale energy infrastructure.

This 12-week onsite internship involves supporting electrical, pulsed-power, control systems, hardware, simulation, manufacturing, and other engineering projects for laser-driven inertial fusion systems. Interns work with expert mentors on real-world technical challenges, applying engineering skills through design, analysis, modeling, research, and development activities. The role is based at Xcimer Energy headquarters in Denver, Colorado.

Manages Xcimer’s DOE public-private partnership, coordinating milestones, deliverables, proposals, reporting, technical teams, consultants, and external stakeholders. Establishes and tracks cost and schedule baselines for Fusion Pilot Plan deliverables, monitors performance, communicates program health and risks, and supports engineering and science teams executing complex fusion energy R&D programs.

Leads the enterprise PMO by defining its mandate, operating model, governance, standards, tools, and roadmap. Builds and manages the central PMO team while coordinating matrixed program managers across Fusion and Defense. Establishes consistent practices, decision rights, risk management, health reviews, reporting, and capability development, partnering with executives and technical leaders to improve execution without creating unnecessary process.

Directs Xcimer Energy’s large-scale inertial fusion energy program, overseeing technical integration, system architecture, schedules, budgets, risks, governance, and delivery. Leads multidisciplinary engineering, science, and operations teams across fusion physics, lasers, targets, chamber, fuel cycle, controls, and infrastructure. Establishes program priorities, resolves cross-functional technical issues, manages resources and stakeholders, and guides development from concept through construction readiness, commissioning, and operational demonstration.

Designs, integrates, aligns, and tests UV laser beamlines and diagnostic systems for inertial fusion. Owns optical architectures, performance requirements, tolerancing, component sourcing, supplier relationships, and verification. Collaborates with opto-mechanical, electrical, mechanical, and physics teams on adaptive optics and beam-tracking systems. Requires expertise in optical design software, MATLAB or Python, precision alignment, optical metrology, and high-energy or deep-UV optical systems.

Leads the operation, maintenance, testing, troubleshooting, and upgrades of fluids, vacuum, and cryogenic systems supporting superlaser experiments. Develops operating schedules, procedures, limits, and preventive maintenance requirements; leads engineers and technicians during hands-on work; reviews post-experiment data; and resolves anomalies and non-conformances while ensuring systems are safe, reliable, and available for scheduled tests.

Design, analyze, build, test, and operate mechanical systems for laser, pulsed power, vacuum vessel, and inertial fusion equipment. Responsibilities include 3D modeling, pressure vessel design, FEA, instrumentation integration, procurement, assembly oversight, manufacturing support, testing, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration through prototype and reactor-scale development.

Design, analyze, procure, assemble, align, and test precision opto-mechanical hardware for deep-UV, high-energy laser systems. Develop CAD models, GD&T drawings, tolerance stack-ups, FEA analyses, interface documents, and test plans. Collaborate across optical, controls, and systems engineering, support manufacturing and integration, and troubleshoot hardware in labs, cleanrooms, and manufacturing environments. Senior engineers lead subsystem designs, manage interfaces, and mentor junior engineers.

Own the complete lifecycle of large-optic mounts and supporting structures for high-energy deep-UV laser systems. Design trusses, weldments, optical benches, adjustment mechanisms, and handling fixtures; perform structural-thermal-optical and vibration analyses; validate designs through modal testing and optical metrology; create CAD models, GD&T drawings, and interface documentation; support fabrication, cleanroom assembly, integration, and troubleshooting; and mentor mechanical engineers.

Owns adaptive optics and wavefront control for directed-energy laser systems, including requirements, performance modeling, error budgets, architecture, vendor engagement, integration, testing, and commissioning. The role leads technical trade studies, develops risk-reduction experiments, oversees closed-loop control integration, and translates beam-control advances to fusion programs. It also establishes group standards, mentors engineers and scientists, supports hiring, and directs technical work across partner and internal teams.

Develop adaptive optics systems for high-energy laser applications, including wave-optics models, control and optimization algorithms, beam shaping, wavefront sensing, deformable mirrors, alignment, calibration, and hardware integration. Characterize aberrations, turbulence, thermal drift, and vibration; define optical requirements and error budgets; collaborate with vendors and controls engineers; and document testing and calibration procedures for inertial fusion energy systems.