Integrated Modeling Intern - Spring/Summer 2027
About the role
Thea Energy is leveraging recent breakthroughs in stellarator physics and engineering to create a faster and simpler approach to commercializing fusion energy. The company is reinventing the stellarator using computer-controlled arrays of planar coils thereby replacing the intricate, complex modular magnets required in all other stellarator architectures. Thea Energy is on a mission to create a limitless source of zero emission energy for a sustainable future. Thea Energy's Approach To Fusion Confinement Is Uniquely Positioned To Leverage AI And Learned Surrogates In The Design Of Its Fusion Power Plant. Likewise, The Large Design Space Of The Stellarator Approach Makes Numerical Optimization Of Figures Of Merit Essential.
Responsibilities
- Implement reduced models of physics phenomena and engineering systems
- Generate coupled workflows of integrated models including constrained numerical optimization of designs
- Train surrogate models on high-fidelity simulation outputs
Requirements
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 lbs.
- Ability to perform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time.
- Ability to work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics.
- It’s not necessary to meet all of the skillsets outlined above.
Qualifications
- Experience with toroidal plasma confinement devices
- Experience with constrained nonlinear numerical optimization
- Experience with systems studies
- Experience with data science
- Experience with machine learning
Pay
Compensation: $18-25/hr for undergraduate interns and $26-30/hr for post‑graduate interns.