# Laser Engineer at Fuse

Laser Engineer at Fuse in San Leandro, California. Full-time, paying $110k–$160k. Posted May 1, 2025.

- Company: Fuse
- Location: San Leandro, California
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $110k–$160k
- Posted: 2025-05-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fuse/40f3b865-d7e5-4e64-9af3-a9985a6fbd78/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/laser-engineer-fuse-hmtz5m

## Requirements

- Hands-on experience designing, building, or maintaining laser systems in a research or industrial environment.
- Strong understanding of optics, laser physics, and precision alignment techniques.
- Experience working directly with high-power laser or optical hardware in a lab or test environment.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-moving experimental environment.

## Description

### **About Fuse**

We are building one of the most potentially consequential companies of the century. Our mission is to accelerate the world's transition to fusion energy while safeguarding humankind. This is not a normal company. This is not a normal job. We are committed for the long term to win.
 

### **About the Role**

As a Laser Engineer, you'll design, build, and maintain the laser systems that trigger and diagnose Fuse's pulsed-power machines at our San Leandro facility.
This is hands-on work: aligning and maintaining precision optical systems, developing laser triggering and diagnostic capabilities for high-energy-density experiments, and troubleshooting real hardware on a fast-moving test schedule.
 

### **Core Responsibilities**

- Design, build, align, and maintain precision laser systems used for triggering and diagnostics on pulsed-power experiments.

- Develop and improve laser-based diagnostic techniques, including timing, triggering, and optical diagnostics.

- Troubleshoot optical and laser hardware to keep experimental systems operating and experiments on schedule.

- Work with physics and electrical engineering teams to integrate laser systems with the broader pulsed-power platform.

- Develop and maintain safe operating procedures for high-power laser systems and train team members on proper use.

- Document system designs, alignment procedures, and troubleshooting methods.

 

### **Minimum Qualifications**

- Hands-on experience designing, building, or maintaining laser systems in a research or industrial environment.

- Strong understanding of optics, laser physics, and precision alignment techniques.

- Experience working directly with high-power laser or optical hardware in a lab or test environment.

- Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work independently in a fast-moving experimental environment.

 

### **Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience with laser triggering or diagnostics for pulsed-power, fusion, or high-energy-density physics experiments.

- Experience with high-power optical systems and laser-safety programs.

- Experience in a national lab, defense, aerospace, fusion, or similar research environment.

 

### **What We Value**

- Give a shit. Build things you're proud of.

- Take responsibility. If something is broken and you can fix it, fix it. See things through.

- Move fast. Make decisions, learn quickly, and keep moving forward.

- Think bigger. Simplify relentlessly. Don't default to the safe answer.

- Disagree and commit. The best idea wins. Once a decision is made, we move.

- Desire to win. This is hard. Expect intensity. We are here to win.

- Plan B is to make Plan A work.

 

### **Additional Requirements**

- This is an onsite position at Fuse's Napierville facility and requires relocation if not already local.

- Ability to work extended hours when experimental schedules require it.

- Ability and willingness to travel to other Fuse facilities as needed.

 

### **Benefits**

- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

- Relocation assistance for roles that require it.

- Flexible time off. Take what you need, no accrual tracking.

- 2 weeks of paid time off built into the end of each year, subject to team and business needs.

- Supportive leave of absence policies.

- Paid leave for new parents.

 

### **ITAR Requirements**

To conform to U.S. Government technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
 

### **Equal Opportunity**

Fuse is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Fuse is governed on the basis of merit, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, ancestry, immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status.