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About Avalanche Energy

Avalanche Energy is a Washington-based startup building compact, deployable fusion systems through rapid hardware iteration. Avalanche develops transportable fusion machines designed to be built, tested, and operated on short cycles.

About the Role

Avalanche Energy is seeking an Electrical & Instrumentation Engineer to design, build, operate, and maintain the electrical systems that support fusion experiments. The role works directly on active fusion devices, ion sources, diagnostics, and high-voltage laboratory systems.

Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining electrical and instrumentation systems; supporting fusion experiments, diagnostics, and laboratory infrastructure; specifying, procuring, assembling, and testing electrical hardware including power distribution, signal conditioning, high-voltage switching, timing and triggering systems, and diagnostic instrumentation; troubleshooting with oscilloscopes, probes, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, and other test equipment; implementing grounding, shielding, and filtering strategies; and maintaining measurement systems and diagnostics.

Required qualifications include a B.S. degree or higher in electrical engineering, physics, or a closely related field, plus 5+ years of post-degree hands-on electrical or instrumentation engineering experience.

Salary range: $110K/yr - $200K/yr.