Thea Energy

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

$185K–$280K

Kearny, NJ · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Mar 5, 2026

Experience: 10 or more years of relevant experience across at least two specified areas; 5 or more years of engineering management experience.
Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Controls, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent.

About the job

Leads the team and end-to-end control, instrumentation, and diagnostics systems architecture and integration for Thea Energy’s Eos stellarator.

Lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering organization and establish its planning, review, and decision-making processes.
Own CID architecture and technical direction across control, data acquisition, instrumentation, safety interlocks, timing, and data management.
Oversee subsystem integration, vendor interfaces, safety practices, verification, commissioning, and delivery documentation.

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Electrical Engineering, Controls, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent.
10 or more years of relevant experience spanning two or more listed technical areas.
5 or more years of engineering management experience leading multi-team organizations, including hiring and performance leadership.
Experience owning complex system development from architecture through prototype validation and integration.

Experience delivering CID systems for fusion devices, accelerators, advanced nuclear, or other large scientific facilities.
Experience with EPICS or TANGO, industrial integration protocols, functional safety workflows, FPGA-based acquisition, or AI and digital twin integration.

$185,000-$280,000 USD base salary

LabView, EPICS, TANGO, OPC UA, DDS, Modbus, Siemens TIA Portal, Beckhoff TwinCAT

Familiarity integrating AI and digital twin capabilities into supervisory control and operations workflows.

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