Senior Process Engineer
Commonwealth Fusion Systems · Devens, MA · 1 mo ago
On-siteManufacturingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "About Commonwealth Fusion Systems" description, then "Join the power movement as a Senior Process Engineer CFS is looking for ...". We need to use for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role? The "About Commonwealth Fusion Systems" is about company, not role. Could be "About the role" maybe we can use that heading for description of role? The posting includes description of role after "Join the power movement as a Senior Process Engineer ...". That could be considered About the role. We'll include
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content for About the role? The "About Commonwealth Fusion Systems" is about company, not role. Could be "About the role" maybe we can use that heading for description of role? The posting includes description of role after "Join the power movement as a Senior Process Engineer ...". That could be considered About the role. We'll include About the role
with paragraph(s) summarizing role description (but must preserve all substantive info, not summarize away detail). However we cannot invent or summarize away detail; we need to preserve all substantive information. That means we need to keep the details, not just a summary. But we can put the description in paragraphs under that heading, preserving the content. That's okay.
We need Responsibilities: there is a "What you'll do:" list with many bullet points. We'll put those as - items.
Requirements: there is "What we're looking for:" list of qualifications (Bachelor's degree, 7+ years, etc). Also "Must-have requirements:" list (ability to lift, etc). Also "Bonus points for:" list. We need to decide sections: Qualifications, Skills, maybe Requirements. The instruction: Use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can map: Responsibilities = What you'll do. Qualifications = What we're looking for (education, experience). Skills = maybe the bullet points of technical skills? Could also include Bonus points as Skills? But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Qualifications and Skills? But we need to follow instruction: use those headings when content exists. We have content for Responsibilities, Qualifications (education/experience), Skills (technical skills like process simulation, HAZOP, etc), Benefits (listed), Pay (salary range mentioned), Schedule? Not mentioned. So we omit Schedule.
We must not include headings with filler like "commensurate with experience". Pay section: posting says "Salary range for this full-time position + equity + benefits. The actual salary will depend on level, location, qualifications, and experience. The range displayed on each job posting reflects new hire salaries for the position across all US locations." That's specific enough? It mentions salary range but not actual numbers. It says "Salary range for this full-time position + equity + benefits." It doesn't give numbers. Is that considered filler? It says "Salary range for this full-time position + equity + benefits." That's still a statement about pay, albeit not giving numbers. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state that there is a salary range, equity, benefits. So we can include Pay section with that statement. However we should avoid placeholder like "not specified". It does say salary range but not numbers; still it's stating that there is a range. We'll include Pay section with that sentence.
Benefits: they list benefits: Competitive compensation with equity, 13 Company-wide Holidays, Flexible vacation days, 10 sick days, Generous parental leave policy, Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with employer matching, Professional growth opportunities, Team-building activities. We'll put those as
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Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We'll not.
We need to strip boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, export control laws, etc. Remove those. Also remove "At CFS, we excel in fast-paced environments..." maybe that's values; could be part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's about company values; could be kept as part of About the role? It's not strictly boilerplate but maybe we can keep as part of About the role. However the instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The values statement is not exactly boilerplate but could be considered generic. Might keep? Safer to keep as part of About the role? It's not duplicated. I'd keep it as a paragraph under About the role.
Now we need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all bullet points from What you'll do, What we're looking for, Must-have requirements, Bonus points for. Also the initial description about role and company.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the bullet points exactly as given (maybe slight rephrase? but better to keep same wording). We'll copy them.
Now structure:
About the role
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is on a mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy. Combining decades of research, top talent, and new technologies, we’re designing and building commercially viable fusion power plants. And we're working with policymakers, suppliers, and many others to build the energy industry of the future. We’re in the best position to make it happen. Since 2018, we’ve raised $4 billion of capital, making us the largest and leading fusion company in the world. Now we’re looking for more thinkers, doers, builders, and makers to join us. People who’ll bring new perspectives, solve tough problems, and thrive as part of a team. If that’s you and this role fits, we want to hear from you. Join the power movement as a Senior Process Engineer CFS is looking for a Senior Process Engineer with deep chemical engineering fundamentals and experience designing, scaling up, commissioning, and operating process systems in large industrial facilities. The ideal candidate comes from an industry such as power generation, petrochemical processing, liquefied natural gas (LNG), industrial gases, chemicals, air separation, cryogenic refrigeration, pulp & paper, or another large-scale process industry. You understand how to translate fundamental process requirements into practical industrial systems and have taken designs from early concepts through Front-End Loading (FEL), detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, start-up, and operation. Fusion power plants bring together process technologies that traditionally span multiple industries. At CFS, you will have the opportunity to work across cryogenic systems including helium and nitrogen, power generation and steam systems, molten salt systems, fueling and gas processing, vacuum systems, and process utilities such as cooling water and instrument air. We are looking for an engineer who understands how these systems behave in the real world because they have personally designed, built, commissioned, operated, or troubleshot industrial process equipment. You should be equally comfortable developing a process design basis, building a heat and material balance, sizing equipment, originating and owning P&IDs, leading a HAZOP, walking down installed piping, supporting start-up, and diagnosing why an operating system is not performing as designed.
Then Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Own process engineering scope for complex systems from early concept through design, construction, commissioning, start-up, and operation
- Develop process concepts and translate fundamental engineering requirements into practical, commercially viable industrial systems
- Develop process design bases, operating envelopes, design cases, process flow diagrams (PFDs), heat and material balances, utility balances, P&IDs, equipment lists, line lists, and process datasheets
- Apply chemical engineering fundamentals including thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, transport phenomena, reaction engineering, separations, process dynamics, and process control
- Develop steady-state and dynamic process models and use engineering analysis to guide system architecture, equipment selection, and operating strategy
- Size and specify process equipment including pumps, compressors, blowers, heat exchangers, vessels, columns, piping systems, control valves, relief devices, and other unit operations
- Lead process engineering through Front-End Loading (FEL) and progressively mature systems from conceptual design through process definition and engineering definition
- Evaluate process alternatives and technical tradeoffs considering performance, safety, reliability, operability, maintainability, capital cost, and lifecycle cost
- Develop equipment and package specifications, technically evaluate vendor proposals, and work directly with equipment suppliers and fabricators
- Lead or contribute to process safety activities including HAZOPs, design reviews, relief and depressurization studies, consequence evaluations, and development of safeguards
- Develop process control philosophies, operating sequences, alarm requirements, permissives, interlocks, and operating limits in collaboration with controls engineers and operators
- Perform multidisciplinary technical reviews to ensure that systems are safe, operable, maintainable, and capable of achieving their intended process function
- Support procurement, fabrication, construction, installation, inspection, and field engineering, including field walkdowns and resolution of design and construction issues
- Develop commissioning plans, test procedures, operating procedures, and start-up strategies and participate directly in commissioning, start-up, performance testing, and operation of process systems
- Troubleshoot operating equipment and processes using first-principles engineering, process data, field observations, and structured process investigations
- Capture lessons learned from construction, commissioning, and operation and translate them into improvements in process safety, reliability, operability, maintainability, performance, engineering standards, and future designs
- Provide technical leadership and mentor less-experienced engineers on complex process engineering problems
Then Qualifications:
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (or closely related discipline)
- 7+ years of relevant industrial process engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated depth of experience
- Strong command of chemical engineering fundamentals including mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, transport phenomena, unit operations, and process dynamics and control
- Experience designing process systems for large-scale industrial facilities
- Demonstrated experience taking process systems through a structured FEL or equivalent stage-gated project development process, from concept and process definition through detailed engineering and execution
- Experience with process scale-up, technology scale-up, or translating process requirements into commercial-scale equipment and facilities
- Demonstrated experience developing core process engineering deliverables including process design bases, heat and material balances, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, datasheets, and process calculations
- Experience sizing, specifying, and selecting industrial process equipment
- Hands-on experience operating, commissioning, starting up, performance testing, and troubleshooting industrial process systems and physical equipment
- Experience working directly with operators and technicians and using operating data and field observations to diagnose process performance
- Experience with process simulation and analysis tools such as EcoSim, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Plus, AVEVA Process Simulation, or equivalent
- Experience with process safety and hazard analysis, including HAZOP or equivalent methodologies
- Experience with relief system design and overpressure protection
- Experience working with and integrating other engineering disciplines including mechanical, piping, instrumentation and controls, electrical, safety, operations, and construction
- Experience working directly with equipment vendors, fabricators, EPC organizations, or construction contractors
- Familiarity with applicable process industry codes and standards, including ASME B31.3 and ASME BPVC Section VIII
- Ability to clearly express and critique technical ideas, assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs
- Strong engineering judgment and the ability to recognize when analytical or simulation results do not make physical sense
- Attention to detail with an emphasis on practical, elegant, and commercially viable engineering solutions
- Values that align
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Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. We'll not.
We need to strip boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, export control laws, etc. Remove those. Also remove "At CFS, we excel in fast-paced environments..." maybe that's values; could be part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's about company values; could be kept as part of About the role? It's not strictly boilerplate but maybe we can keep as part of About the role. However the instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The values statement is not exactly boilerplate but could be considered generic. Might keep? Safer to keep as part of About the role? It's not duplicated. I'd keep it as a paragraph under About the role.
Now we need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to include all bullet points from What you'll do, What we're looking for, Must-have requirements, Bonus points for. Also the initial description about role and company.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the bullet points exactly as given (maybe slight rephrase? but better to keep same wording). We'll copy them.
Now structure:
- Own process engineering scope for complex systems from early concept through design, construction, commissioning, start-up, and operation
- Develop process concepts and translate fundamental engineering requirements into practical, commercially viable industrial systems
- Develop process design bases, operating envelopes, design cases, process flow diagrams (PFDs), heat and material balances, utility balances, P&IDs, equipment lists, line lists, and process datasheets
- Apply chemical engineering fundamentals including thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, transport phenomena, reaction engineering, separations, process dynamics, and process control
- Develop steady-state and dynamic process models and use engineering analysis to guide system architecture, equipment selection, and operating strategy
- Size and specify process equipment including pumps, compressors, blowers, heat exchangers, vessels, columns, piping systems, control valves, relief devices, and other unit operations
- Lead process engineering through Front-End Loading (FEL) and progressively mature systems from conceptual design through process definition and engineering definition
- Evaluate process alternatives and technical tradeoffs considering performance, safety, reliability, operability, maintainability, capital cost, and lifecycle cost
- Develop equipment and package specifications, technically evaluate vendor proposals, and work directly with equipment suppliers and fabricators
- Lead or contribute to process safety activities including HAZOPs, design reviews, relief and depressurization studies, consequence evaluations, and development of safeguards
- Develop process control philosophies, operating sequences, alarm requirements, permissives, interlocks, and operating limits in collaboration with controls engineers and operators
- Perform multidisciplinary technical reviews to ensure that systems are safe, operable, maintainable, and capable of achieving their intended process function
- Support procurement, fabrication, construction, installation, inspection, and field engineering, including field walkdowns and resolution of design and construction issues
- Develop commissioning plans, test procedures, operating procedures, and start-up strategies and participate directly in commissioning, start-up, performance testing, and operation of process systems
- Troubleshoot operating equipment and processes using first-principles engineering, process data, field observations, and structured process investigations
- Capture lessons learned from construction, commissioning, and operation and translate them into improvements in process safety, reliability, operability, maintainability, performance, engineering standards, and future designs
- Provide technical leadership and mentor less-experienced engineers on complex process engineering problems
- Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (or closely related discipline)
- 7+ years of relevant industrial process engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated depth of experience
- Strong command of chemical engineering fundamentals including mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, phase equilibrium, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, transport phenomena, unit operations, and process dynamics and control
- Experience designing process systems for large-scale industrial facilities
- Demonstrated experience taking process systems through a structured FEL or equivalent stage-gated project development process, from concept and process definition through detailed engineering and execution
- Experience with process scale-up, technology scale-up, or translating process requirements into commercial-scale equipment and facilities
- Demonstrated experience developing core process engineering deliverables including process design bases, heat and material balances, PFDs, P&IDs, equipment specifications, datasheets, and process calculations
- Experience sizing, specifying, and selecting industrial process equipment
- Hands-on experience operating, commissioning, starting up, performance testing, and troubleshooting industrial process systems and physical equipment
- Experience working directly with operators and technicians and using operating data and field observations to diagnose process performance
- Experience with process simulation and analysis tools such as EcoSim, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Plus, AVEVA Process Simulation, or equivalent
- Experience with process safety and hazard analysis, including HAZOP or equivalent methodologies
- Experience with relief system design and overpressure protection
- Experience working with and integrating other engineering disciplines including mechanical, piping, instrumentation and controls, electrical, safety, operations, and construction
- Experience working directly with equipment vendors, fabricators, EPC organizations, or construction contractors
- Familiarity with applicable process industry codes and standards, including ASME B31.3 and ASME BPVC Section VIII
- Ability to clearly express and critique technical ideas, assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs
- Strong engineering judgment and the ability to recognize when analytical or simulation results do not make physical sense
- Attention to detail with an emphasis on practical, elegant, and commercially viable engineering solutions
- Values that align
About the role
Commonwealth Fusion Systems is on a mission to deliver the urgent transition to fusion energy. Combining decades of research, top talent, and new technologies, we’re designing and building commercially viable fusion power plants. And we're working with policymakers, suppliers, and many others to build the energy industry of the future. We’re in the best position to make it happen. Since 2018, we’ve raised $4 billion of capital, making us the largest and leading fusion company in the world. Now we’re looking for more thinkers, doers, builders, and makers to join us. People who’ll bring new perspectives, solve tough problems, and thrive as part of a team. If that’s you and this role fits, we want to hear from you. Join the power movement as a Senior Process Engineer CFS is looking for a Senior Process Engineer with deep chemical engineering fundamentals and experience designing, scaling up, commissioning, and operating process systems in large industrial facilities. The ideal candidate comes from an industry such as power generation, petrochemical processing, liquefied natural gas (LNG), industrial gases, chemicals, air separation, cryogenic refrigeration, pulp & paper, or another large-scale process industry. You understand how to translate fundamental process requirements into practical industrial systems and have taken designs from early concepts through Front-End Loading (FEL), detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, start-up, and operation. Fusion power plants bring together process technologies that traditionally span multiple industries. At CFS, you will have the opportunity to work across cryogenic systems including helium and nitrogen, power generation and steam systems, molten salt systems, fueling and gas processing, vacuum systems, and process utilities such as cooling water and instrument air. We are looking for an engineer who understands how these systems behave in the real world because they have personally designed, built, commissioned, operated, or troubleshot industrial process equipment. You should be equally comfortable developing a process design basis, building a heat and material balance, sizing equipment, originating and owning P&IDs, leading a HAZOP, walking down installed piping, supporting start-up, and diagnosing why an operating system is not performing as designed.
Then Responsibilities: