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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.