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Staff Dimensional Engineer – SPARC
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A Staff Dimensional Engineer at Commonwealth Fusion Systems owns GD&T strategy, tolerance stack-up, and inspection requirements for large-scale fusion hardware assemblies, translating design intent into buildable, verifiable specifications.
About this role
SPARC is a first-of-a-kind machine, and it presents some of the hardest dimensional management problems in industry today: large high-field magnets, tight tolerances on complex geometries at meter scale, novel materials, and assembly stack-ups with no precedent to copy from. CFS is seeking a Staff Dimensional Engineer to be the technical authority for dimensional management across HTS Magnet production and the SPARC project.
This is a role for someone who wants to define a discipline, not inherit one. You will own how design intent becomes buildable, verifiable hardware: setting GD&T and datum strategy with Engineering, analyzing variation propagation through assembly sequences before hardware proves it the hard way, and defining what we measure and to what acceptance criteria. Your decisions will shape how fusion hardware is toleranced, measured, and accepted, on SPARC and on the ARC power plants that follow.
You will work alongside a metrology team equipped with laser trackers, portable CMM arms, and structured-light scanning, and with an established Quality Engineering organization that owns statistical process control and measurement system analysis, so your focus stays on the geometry.
What you'll do:
What we’re looking for:
- BS in Mechanical, Industrial, Materials Science, Manufacturing, or Aerospace Engineering
- 10+ years of dimensional engineering experience on complex hardware (airframes, vehicle structures, turbomachinery, large equipment, or comparable)
- Mastery of GD&T (ASME Y14.5) as an author, not only an interpreter: datum strategy, tolerance allocation, and drawing review authority; GDTP certification strongly preferred
- Proven tolerance stack-up capability, both 1D (RSS, worst-case) and 3D variation analysis (3DCS, VisVA, or equivalent)
- Experience applying dimensional management to large assemblies: indexing strategies, key characteristics, and assembly sequence variation
- Demonstrated ability to translate design intent into inspection requirements and acceptance criteria
- Excellent communication and organization skills
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