Senior Engineer - Industrial Control Systems Technical Lead

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About Type One Energy
Type One Energy Group is mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world. Established in 2019 and venture-backed in 2023, the company is led by a team of globally recognized fusion scientists with a strong track record of building state-of-the-art stellarator fusion machines, together with veteran business leaders experienced in scaling companies and commercializing energy technologies.

If you are searching for the best new ideas and share our vision, join us as a Senior Engineer - Industrial Control Systems Technical Lead. This is what you need to know:
Location: Knoxville, TN
Salary: Highly Competitive Plus Benefits
Contract: Permanent, full time
Reporting to: Director of Electrical and Software Engineering
Your role in the mission:
The Senior Engineer - Industrial Control Systems Technical Lead will serve as the technical authority for the development and delivery of Project Infinity control systems. This role will define the overall control system architecture and guide multidisciplinary teams in delivering integrated, secure, reliable, and operationally ready solutions aligned with program objectives, system architecture, and the product breakdown structure. The successful candidate will combine deep industrial automation expertise with strong systems thinking, technical leadership, and project execution skills. You will:

• Serve as the technical authority and overall technical lead for Project Infinity control systems, ensuring capabilities align with program objectives, system architecture, and the product breakdown structure.
• Define, maintain, and communicate the industrial control system architecture, including control systems, data acquisition, industrial networking, historian and storage solutions, SCADA platforms, integration frameworks, and supporting infrastructure.
• Collaborate with technical leads, systems engineers, physicists, and plant stakeholders to elicit, document, and manage requirements for control, monitoring, data acquisition, alarm management, and communications across plant systems and subsystems.
• Lead the development and review of control narratives, process flow diagrams (PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), interface definitions, and related engineering documentation.
• Translate operational requirements and control narratives into detailed system designs, hardware and software architectures, PLC implementations, HMI designs, SCADA configurations, and communications interfaces.
• Establish technical standards, design principles, and engineering best practices for Project Infinity control systems.
• Lead technical trade studies and recommend automation platforms, PLC hardware, SCADA software, industrial networking technologies, data storage architectures, simulation environments, and third-party solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, mentorship, and design oversig

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