About Us:
Established in 2002, General Fusion is a global leader in the race to commercialize clean fusion energy. We are pursuing a uniquely practical approach, Magnetized Target Fusion, and aim to provide zero-carbon fusion power to the grid in the early to mid-2030s. Today at our state-of-the-art labs in Richmond, BC, we’re operating a groundbreaking fusion demonstration machine called Lawson Machine 26 (LM26), designed to achieve transformational technical milestones and accelerate General Fusion’s technology to commercialization. Our path to market is funded by a global syndicate of leading energy venture capital firms, industry leaders, and technology pioneers. Learn more at www.generalfusion.com.
Position Overview:
General Fusion is searching for a Senior Electrical Engineer to join our Controls & Electronics team on our path to commercial fusion. You will be a key member of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team delivering the control systems, data acquisition pipelines, and electronics that support our experimental operations. You'll report to the Manager, Pulsed Power Systems, bringing your extensive experience designing and deploying electrical systems to our one-of-a-kind experimental machines, where reliable operation in a noisy electrical environment is mission-critical.
The position is located on site at General Fusion's Richmond, BC facility, and may require occasional shift work or flexible hours to support experimental campaigns.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a technical authority in electrical engineering, helping the team isolate and resolve the signal and system-level issues encountered in experimental operations.
- Provide guidance and mentorship on electrical design standards, best practices, and technical decision-making.
- Design, develop, and commission data acquisition systems that maintain signal integrity in electrically noisy, high-voltage, pulsed-power environments.
- Architect analog and digital signal chains - conditioning, isolation, digitization, and transmission - that deliver trustworthy measurements from sensor to recorded data.
- Conduct and guide design reviews, from requirements, to schematic design, through PCB layout, and testing plans.
- Own full hardware development lifecycle from concept, requirements, schematic design, PCB layout, prototyping, testing and production release.
- Develop grounding, shielding, and isolation strategies (including fiber-optic and galvanically isolated links) to suppress noise and protect instrumentation from transients.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization, gathering and translating requirements from physics, mechanical, electrical, and software teams into robust, supportable electronic solutions.
- Troubleshoot and characterize system performance in the lab, using measurement and diagnostic techniques to distinguish real signals from noise, coupling, and artifacts.
- Document designs, calibration procedures, and test results to ensure systems are maintainable and repeatable across the team.
- Champion a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with applicable electrical, machine safety, and lab safety standards.
Skills and Experience
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent.
- 10+ years of progressive experience designing, deploying, and commissioning electrical/electronic systems in R&D, manufacturing, or process environments.
- Experience designing and deploying data acquisition systems in high-EMI / high-voltage environments, maintaining signal integrity in the presence of pulsed power transients.
- Hands-on experience with grounding, shielding, isolation, and common-mode rejection techniques to suppress noise from switching and pulsed sources.
- Ability to transmit analog and digital signals reliably in noisy environments.
- Expertise in analog signal conditioning and high-speed digitization (amplification, filtering, anti-aliasing, ADC selection, sampling/timing trade-offs).
- Familiarity with high-voltage and high-current measurement techniques (e.g., resistive/capacitive dividers, Pearson and Rogowski coils, current transformers) and their bandwidth/calibration limitations.
- Proficiency with electrical design and simulation software such as Altium and LTSpice.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving experimental environment where requirements are often ambiguous and change quickly.
- Ability to make decisions and trade-offs that guide projects to a successful conclusion in the absence of complete information and where there may be no clear path to the solution.
- Excellent technical communication skills, including clear documentation and the ability to present architectural decisions to multidisciplinary audiences.
- Understands the value of configuration management and right-sizes it for the situation.
- Commitment to safe work practices in a lab or R&D environment.
Preferred
- Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Experience in fusion, high-energy physics, particle accelerator, semiconductor, or similar high-tech R&D facilities.
- Proficiency with general-purpose programming languages (Python, C, C++, C#) for tooling, scripting, and data analysis.
- Experience managing engineering teams.
- Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with EGBC or eligibility for registration, including experience authenticating work under that designation.
The typical hiring range for this position is $140,000 - $170,000. General Fusion considers many factors when determining total compensation including job specific or highly specialized knowledge, skills and experience, proficiency, job location and internal equity
What We Offer:
- Hybrid work
- Four weeks' vacation
- Comprehensive benefits package
- RRSP Contribution
- Support for professional development
- Great company culture – social events, weekly lunch program, bike rides, Sun Run, etc.
Applications:
We thank all applicants for their interest, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
We welcome applicants with relevant engineering experience. Candidates who hold P.Eng or EIT credentials will be hired under the Engineer title. Those without these credentials will be assigned an equivalent title that matches the scope of their position.
General Fusion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, or age.
