Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About Pacific Fusion

Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.

We are rapidly designing and building a pulsed magnetic fusion system to achieve net facility gain (more fusion energy output than stored energy input). In parallel, we are developing the key components required to build affordable fusion systems.

Our plans are ambitious. We have raised over $900M so far from incredible investors, resourcing us to deliver on these plans. We are bringing together the best scientists, engineers, and operators from the fusion community, hard tech industry, and other sectors. We are united by a shared sense of urgency to provide clean power for the world, particularly managing climate change while meeting growing global energy demand. You can read more about us in this letter from our founders .

About the Role

Job Overview:

As Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will spearhead the architecture and development of Pacific Fusion’s growing cloud infrastructure for the engineering organization. This includes infrastructure supporting databases for control systems, component testing processes, and experimental data acquisition such as the necessary compute, storage, networking, and security infrastructure. You will exercise strategic judgement to rapidly meet near term needs while laying the foundations for robust and scalable systems relied upon for mission-critical services.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement cloud-based infrastructure to support Pacific Fusion’s control systems, hardware testing systems, application servers, and data acquisition devices

• Partner with the Controls Systems Lead and other engineers to design efficient and scalable systems to meet engineering objectives

• Ensure sound security postures and partner with the Security Team to automate security controls, monitoring, and response

• Automate resource deployment using infrastructure as code tools such as CloudFormation and Pulumi and own CI/CD frameworks for deployment

• Work closely with the HPC Cloud Infrastructure engineering team to ensure cohesive management of cloud resources and develop sharable components for monitoring and security

• Anticipate future infrastructure needs in Pacific Fusion’s rapidly growing engineering efforts and tailor cloud architectures to facilitate new use cases

Qualifications:

• Expertise in deploying resources on public cloud environments such as AWS, Google Cloud, and/or Azure

• Strong cloud security fundamentals covering best practices for access controls, network configurations, and automated monitoring

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Terraform

• Competency with CI/CD workflows and tooling

• Excellent interpersonal skills to carefully understand system requirements and efficiently enable end users to meet business objectives

Preferred but not required:

• Experience working in hard tech industries such as: fusion, aerospace, EVs, energy, robotics

• Experience working closely with PhD scientists and R&D technology organizations

• Familiarity with database systems used for quantitative data

Benefits:

• Industry-competitive salary

• Equity plan

• 6% employer 401k matching

• Generous paid time off (including sick leave, vacation, paid family leave)

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

Actual base salary offered will be determined by: experience, skills, and work location. This range is for base salary, our total compensation includes equity and benefits. We welcome you to apply even if your expectations are outside our listed range.

Pacific 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, age, or veteran status.

Pacific Fusion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures and throughout employment. If you need assistance or any accommodation, please let us know.

Pacific Fusion does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies without a fully executed recruitment agreement in place. In the absence of such agreement, Pacific Fusion reserves the right to pursue and hire any candidates without an obligation to pay fees. Agencies are requested not to contact Pacific Fusion hiring managers or employees regarding recruiting services.