Principal Real-Time Software Engineer

Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future. 

 

We are seeking a Principal Real-Time Software Engineer to design, develop, and deploy the real-time software framework supporting the Eos Control System. Working with the controls and physics teams, you will develop the common execution environment, interfaces, and engineering practices that allow plasma control, magnet and power supply control, real-time diagnostics, and other time-critical applications to operate as an integrated system.

 

This role combines substantial hands-on software development with architecture, hardware integration, verification, commissioning, and operational support. You will work closely with controls engineers, plasma physicists, diagnostic specialists, electrical engineers, and subsystem owners to turn experimental and plant requirements into reliable, maintainable real-time software.