DevOps 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:

The DevOps Engineer will focus on building and maintaining the tools, automation, and workflows that empower developers to deliver high-quality software quickly and reliably. The Engineer will work closely with development teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines, improve build and test automation, and enhance development environments. They will identify opportunities to remove friction from the development process, increase system reliability, and optimize the use of compute and cloud resources. By championing automation and developer productivity, the Engineer will play a key role in accelerating innovation and ensuring robust, maintainable software systems.

Responsibilities:

• Overhaul Pacific Fusion’s build system for its physics software repository for more intelligent dependency detection

• Own CI/CD pipelines for Pacific Fusion’s software across physics and industrial controls software development teams

• Design and implement infrastructure to streamline software testing

• Develop systems for managing and synchronizing internal and external code repositories

• Manage virtual environments and build dependencies

• Support excellence in software engineering and software development workflows across the engineering organization, spanning both physics simulation and hardware engineering applications

Qualifications:

• Experience with architecting and maintaining modern build systems and CI/CD pipelines

• Competency with fundamental AWS services including EC2, IAM Identity Center, and S3

• Track record of enhancing developer productivity in highly technical work environments

• Excellence in developing python tooling to support developer workflows

• Ability to exercise strategic judgement to maximize impact in a small team environment

Preferred but not required:

• Experience with Gitlab CI

• Experience with Python, C++, Fortran and/or Golang code bases

• Experience deploying modern build systems such as Pantsbuild

• Exposure to scientific computing and/or high performance computing

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Pulumi

• Ability to build and deploy web dashboards using Plotly Dash, Streamlit, or similar

• Experience with enhancing developer productivity through incorporation of modern AI-based code generation into developer environments

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.