Manufacturing Engineering, Assembly

Job 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. About the Role Fuse is establishing a dedicated in-house manufacturing facility for high-voltage pulsed-power capacitors. The program requires production of hundreds of thousands of 40–160 nF, 100 kV double-ended capacitors, previously produced only by a handful of specialized manufacturers worldwide. As the Capacitor Manufacturing Engineer, you'll bring deep hands-on expertise in high-voltage film capacitor fabrication to commission, qualify, and operate this facility from the ground up — a founding engineering role with direct impact on the core pulsed-power infrastructure.

Core Responsibilities Facility Setup & Process Engineering
Lead the setup and commissioning of the capacitor manufacturing facility, including procurement and qualification of winding, impregnation, encapsulation, and high-voltage test equipment.
Establish the manufacturing process from raw film through finished, tested capacitor.
Film Winding & Dielectric Stack Assembly
Develop and optimize winding parameters for metallized polypropylene (PP) film or film/foil electrode systems for high-voltage, low-inductance pulse applications.
Define winding tension, layer counts, geometry, and metallization strategies to improve performance and service life.
Ensure terminal integration and mechanical robustness under repetitive discharge stress.
High-Voltage Testing & Quality Control
Establish production acceptance testing, including capacitance, dissipation factor (tan δ), DC hipot, partial discharge, and pulse discharge life testing.
Build quality controls and statistical process tracking to improve yield and identify failure modes as production scales.
Materials & Supply Chain
Qualify suppliers and establish material standards for dielectric film, metallization, electrodes, impregnants, and capacitor hardware.
Evaluate alternative materials and processes that could improve energy density, reliability, or temperature performance.
Drive the transition from pilot production to high-volume manufacturing.
Implement automation across winding, testing, and packaging to improve yield, throughput, and unit cost.

Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics, Manufacturing/Process Engineering, or a related field.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience in high-voltage film capacitor manufacturing, including winding, impregnation, encapsulation, and high-voltage testing.
• Deep knowledge of polypropylene film dielectrics, metallization processes, and partial discharge physics at high field strengths.
• Experience establishing or managing a manufacturing quality system (ISO 9001 or equivalent) for electrical components.

Familiarity with double-ended low-inductance capacitor architectures designed for pulse-discharge applications.
Experience with automated winding-machine programming and mechanical setup, including mandrel, tension control, and traversing.
Familiarity with dielectric film casting or metallization processes is a strong plus.

Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Relocation assistance for roles that require it.
• Flexible time off. Supportive leave of absence policies.
• 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.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.