<div><strong>Position Overview:</strong></div><div><p>Thea Energy is seeking an experienced and motivated Engineering Program Manager to lead a large, complex custom product development program within the fusion energy industry. This is a highly visible role in the organization leading development of core fusion technology. This role will act as a force multiplier by increasing development velocity and raising the bar on execution standards. You will oversee the design, build, and test phases of critical hardware, ensuring the successful delivery of components that will advance fusion technology.</p></div><br><br><h3>Key Responsibility Areas:</h3><ul><div><li>Define and drive program planning and execution across hardware design, test, supply chain, and manufacturing teams, with a clear plan of record and critical-path ownership</li><li>Partner with technical leads to define product requirements, validation strategies, and decision gates, ensuring design tradeoffs are explicitly documented and understood across teams</li><li>Own engineering BOM strategy and NPI readiness, working closely with engineers and supply chain to balance performance, cost, availability, and manufacturability</li><li>Provide regular, detailed program updates to leadership and stakeholders, highlighting progress, technical challenges, and proposed solutions.</li><li>Proactively identify and manage technical, schedule, budget, and quality risks.  develop effective mitigation strategies and contingency plans.</li></div></ul><h3>Ideal Experience &amp; Skillsets:</h3><ul><div>•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field. <br>•    3+ years leading complex, multidisciplinary engineering programs ideally involving large scale hardware development in climate tech, aerospace, nuclear, or related industries. <br>•    Demonstrated ability to work deeply with technical teams (physics, mechanical engineering, magnet engineering, manufacturing engineering) and solve first of a kind problems.<br>•    Strong grasp of DFM principles and the realities of design, build, test cycles. <br>•    Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and leadership teams<br>•    Proven ability to distill complex technical programs into clear risks, decisions, and priorities for leadership audiences<br>•    Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment, with high ownership and ambiguity.<br>•    Nice to have: product and technology roadmap development experience.</div></ul><h3>Company Benefits:</h3><ul><li>Salary range $115,000-$165,000</li><li>Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)</li><li>Employee equity stock options</li><li>20 days PTO</li></ul><br><div><em style="font-size:10.5pt;">It’s not necessary to meet all of the skillsets outlined above. Please feel free to send us a note and tell us why you would still be a great fit for this role or Thea Energy.</em></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Diversity and Inclusion:</span></div><div><span style="font-size:10.5pt;">Thea Energy is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a company of diverse backgrounds. By creating a diverse environment, we will bring new ideas and approaches to solving some of the world’s hardest (and most important) problems. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, family or marital status, age, disability, veteran’s status, or other characteristic protected by applicable laws and regulations.</span></div>

<p>Thea Energy (formerly Princeton Stellarators) was founded in 2022 with a focus on leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster, simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. Thea Energy is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils and replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other proposed stellarator architectures. Stellarators are inherently steady-state, stable magnetic configurations that eliminate potential disruptions, making it an optimal pilot plant architecture. Thea Energy is building off foundational research and technology development that it spun out of Princeton University and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, where the stellarator was first imagined in 1951. Thea Energy's proprietary breakthroughs have now enabled systems to be simpler and more practical than previously possible resulting in a system design that can scale to long-term commercial system operation and maintenance.​</p>

Engineering Program Manager

<div><strong>Position Overview:</strong></div><div><p>Thea Energy is seeking an experienced and motivated Engineering Program Manager to lead a large, complex custom product development program within the fusion energy industry. This is a highly visible role in the organization leading development of core fusion technology. This role will act as a force multiplier by increasing development velocity and raising the bar on execution standards. You will oversee the design, build, and test phases of critical hardware, ensuring the successful delivery of components that will advance fusion technology.</p></div><br /><br /><h3>Key Responsibility Areas:</h3><ul><div><li>Define and drive program planning and execution across hardware design, test, supply chain, and manufacturing teams, with a clear plan of record and critical-path ownership</li><li>Partner with technical leads to define product requirements, validation strategies, and decision gates, ensuring design tradeoffs are explicitly documented and understood across teams</li><li>Own engineering BOM strategy and NPI readiness, working closely with engineers and supply chain to balance performance, cost, availability, and manufacturability</li><li>Provide regular, detailed program updates to leadership and stakeholders, highlighting progress, technical challenges, and proposed solutions.</li><li>Proactively identify and manage technical, schedule, budget, and quality risks.  develop effective mitigation strategies and contingency plans.</li></div></ul><h3>Ideal Experience &amp; Skillsets:</h3><ul><div>•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field. <br />•    3+ years leading complex, multidisciplinary engineering programs ideally involving large scale hardware development in climate tech, aerospace, nuclear, or related industries. <br />•    Demonstrated ability to work deeply with technical teams (physics, mechanical engineering, magnet engineering, manufacturing engineering) and solve first of a kind problems.<br />•    Strong grasp of DFM principles and the realities of design, build, test cycles. <br />•    Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across engineering, operations, and leadership teams<br />•    Proven ability to distill complex technical programs into clear risks, decisions, and priorities for leadership audiences<br />•    Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment, with high ownership and ambiguity.<br />•    Nice to have: product and technology roadmap development experience.</div></ul><h3>Company Benefits:</h3><ul><li>Salary range $115,000-$165,000</li><li>Comprehensive health benefits (e.g. medical/dental/vision)</li><li>Employee equity stock options</li><li>20 days PTO</li></ul><br /><div><em>It’s not necessary to meet all of the skillsets outlined above. Please feel free to send us a note and tell us why you would still be a great fit for this role or Thea Energy.</em></div><div><span> </span></div><div><span>Diversity and Inclusion:</span></div><div><span>Thea Energy is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a company of diverse backgrounds. By creating a diverse environment, we will bring new ideas and approaches to solving some of the world’s hardest (and most important) problems. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, family or marital status, age, disability, veteran’s status, or other characteristic protected by applicable laws and regulations.</span></div>

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