Diagnostic Engineering Resource Manager

Join us in our mission to commercialize fusion energy ⚡️  

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 Diagnostic Engineering Resource Manager. 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:

Type One Energy is seeking a Diagnostic Engineering Resource Manager to lead, coordinate, and optimize the deployment of diagnostic physicists and engineers across multiple technically complex programs. This role ensures that diagnostic expertise is aligned with project priorities, experimental campaigns, design milestones, and program needs while sustaining team health, technical excellence, and reliable execution.

The role operates within a matrixed organization and partners closely with Engineering Directors, Technical Leads, Project Managers, Systems Engineers, Experimental Operations, and cross-functional stakeholders. You will combine strong people management, workforce planning, hiring, and contractor oversight with active engagement in the technical work. You will plan and participate in design reviews, maintain visibility into technical quality and program risks, and drive the standardization and adoption of diagnostic tools, workflows, and engineering practices.

Diagnostic Resource Planning & Allocation

• Assign diagnostic physicists and engineers to project teams based on technical expertise, experience, development opportunities, and program priorities.

• Balance workloads across the diagnostics team to support design, modeling, integration, calibration, testing, commissioning, experimental operations, and data analysis while avoiding burnout.

• Continuously monitor capacity, utilization, critical skill coverage, and contractor support across active and planned programs.

• Develop staffing and hiring plans based on project schedules, diagnostic development roadmaps, experimental milestones, and business objectives.

• Resolve resource conflicts and competing priorities in partnership with engineering and program leadership.

People Leadership & Performance Management

• Provide direct, accountable people leadership to diagnostic physicists, diagnostic engineers, and technical specialists within a matrixed organization.

• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings, set clear expectations, provide timely feedback, remove barriers, and address performance or engagement issues.

• Lead workforce planning, recruiting, interviewing, selection, onboarding, retention, and succession planning for the diagnostics organization.

• Plan and manage contractor support, including defining scopes, selecting resources, integrating contractors with internal teams, monitoring performance, and ensuring effective knowledge transfer.

• Foster a collaborative, accountable, inclusive, and safety-focused culture that supports innovation, continuous learning, and sustainable execution.

Capability Development & Talent Growth

• Maintain a clear understanding of team capabilities across diagnostic physics, instrumentation, detector systems, data acquisition, controls, calibration, signal processing, integration, testing, and analysis.

• Identify capability gaps and partner with technical leaders to build hiring, contractor, training, mentoring, and succession plans.

• Create development opportunities that strengthen technical depth, systems thinking, project execution, and engineering judgment.

• Build a flexible talent pipeline that can support evolving diagnostic architectures, experimental priorities, and program schedules.

Technical Quality, Tools & Design Oversight

• Plan and participate in diagnostic concept, preliminary, critical, integration, readiness, and other design reviews; ensure decisions, risks, interfaces, and actions are documented and closed.

• Develop and execute a roadmap for standardizing diagnostic design, modeling, configuration, documentation, data, and collaboration tools across teams.

• Drive adoption of approved tools and workflows through stakeholder alignment, training, governance, metrics, and continuous improvement.

• Ensure sound scientific and engineering practices, design controls, documentation standards, configuration management, and quality requirements are applied consistently.

• Promote safe, reliable, maintainable, and testable diagnostic solutions that comply with applicable standards, regulatory requirements, and company procedures.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Physics, Engineering, Applied Science, or a related technical discipline.

• 10+ years of experience in diagnostics, experimental systems, instrumentation, engineering, or a related field within complex, high-reliability technical environments.

• At least 5 years of people-management experience leading physicists, engineers, or multidisciplinary technical teams.

• Demonstrated strength in hiring and team building, including workforce planning, performance management, and retention.

• Demonstrated ability to scope, engage, manage, and evaluate contractors and external technical resources.

• Proven ability to plan and drive tool standardization and adoption across multiple teams, including change management, training, governance, and measurement of adoption.

• Ability to plan, facilitate, and actively participate in design reviews and translate review outcomes into clear decisions and follow-through.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity, resolve competing priorities, and make staffing decisions that balance near-term program needs with long-term capability development.

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to build trust, provide constructive feedback, and work effectively across scientific, engineering, and program teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience as a Resource Manager, Functional Manager, Engineering Manager, Physics Manager, or Discipline Lead in a matrixed technical organization.

• Experience managing teams responsible for plasma, optical, magnetic, neutron, radiation, vacuum, imaging, spectroscopy, or other complex diagnostic systems.

• Familiarity with fusion energy, advanced energy, national laboratories, nuclear, aerospace, semiconductors, or other research-intensive and highly regulated environments.

• Experience with engineering work management, requirements, configuration management, data, modeling, or collaboration platforms.

• Experience leading organizational change or deploying common technical tools and processes across multiple teams or locations.

• Advanced degrees in Physics, Engineering, or a related discipline preferred.

We offer:

In addition to a basic salary and yearly bonus, you will also get…

• A hybrid work policy
• Stock options
• Relocation allowance
• Insurance plans
• Retirement options
• And many more great voluntary benefits

Type One Energy applies proven advanced manufacturing methods, modern computational physics and high-field superconducting magnets to develop its optimized stellarator fusion energy system. Our FusionDirect development program pursues the lowest-risk, shortest-schedule path to a fusion power plant over the coming decade, using a partner-intensive and capital-efficient strategy.

Type One Energy is committed to community engagement in the development and deployment of its clean energy technology. For more information, visit www.typeoneenergy.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Export Control Compliance Notice

This position may require access to technology, technical data, software, or other information that is subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations. Any offer of employment will be contingent upon the Company's ability to comply with applicable U.S. Export Control Laws, including obtaining any required government authorizations.

Type One Energy is a Global, U.S.-based company that develops and utilizes technologies subject to U.S. export control and trade compliance regulations. Certain positions may require access to controlled technologies, technical data, software, or other information regulated by U.S. Export Control Laws.

For positions involving access to export-controlled technology or information, the Company may be required to determine whether any government authorization or license is needed before such access can be provided. Any offer of employment for such positions may be contingent upon the Company's ability to comply with applicable U.S. Export Control Laws and obtain any required government authorizations.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

 Type One Energy is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, business needs, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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