Munich, Garching · Full-time · On-site, remote work possible
Starforge is on a mission to make fusion energy a practical utility by factory-manufacturing modular, fleet-deployable fusion reactors. We are fusion's Henry Ford moment.
Our first reactor product line, Unit One, is a 250 MWe spherical tokamak, built from demountable high-temperature superconducting magnets and designed in modular blocks so that every component can be factory-manufactured as well as replaced on site.
Our team comes from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, MIT, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Tokamak Energy, KIT, Lilium, and GE.
Come and join us in building the future.
Unit One burns deuterium and tritium, but far more flows through the machine. You'll find gases going in: fuel as gas and frozen pellets, impurity gases seeded to protect the divertor, and gases for wall conditioning. And gases coming out: helium ash, unburned fuel, hydrogen, the seeded impurities, and tritiated water and hydrocarbons from the walls. Every stream has to be pumped, cleaned and separated, and the fuel recovered and sent back in, while the blanket breeds new tritium. This is your chance to design the closed fuel cycle of a fusion reactor and see it built, run and repeated across a fleet.
You will be our first fuel specialist, owning fuelling, exhaust, the tritium plant and tritium breeding end-to-end. You will report to the Head of Physics and Reactor Design, and work closely with our neutronics, in-vessel and mechanical owners, our blanket partners and our external research and commercial partners.