Renaissance Fusion is Europe’s first private nuclear fusion company. Our mission is to make clean, safe, and virtually limitless energy a reality. Based in Grenoble, France, we are developing advanced stellarator technology and pioneering breakthroughs in superconductors, magnets, cryogenics, liquid metals, and plasma physics.

The EAS team collaborates across all R&D departments at Renaissance Fusion, providing high-level engineering services to enable the success of each project. Acting as an internal consulting and implementation unit, the EAS team ensures the translation of innovative ideas into robust, manufacturable engineering solutions.

Your Role

As Head of Engineering as a Service, you will lead this multidisciplinary team and drive excellence in engineering delivery across the company. You will coordinate cross-functional projects, oversee the deployment of engineering resources, and ensure the timely, efficient, and high-quality execution of designs, assemblies, and systems supporting our fusion technology development.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership

• Oversee the execution of engineering requests from internal R&D teams (Magnets, HTS, Cryogenics, Liquid Metal, Stellarator Design, etc.) aligning with the company’s R&D roadmap and long-term goals.

• Ensure project prioritization, resource allocation, and schedule adherence across multiple concurrent projects.

• Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes, documentation, and design standards.

• Foster collaboration between R&D scientists and engineers to accelerate innovation and manufacturability.

• Manage external engineering suppliers and partners when needed.

• Promote a culture of safety, quality, and accountability within the team

Team management

• Form and lead the EAS department (group leaders, engineers and technicians).

• Be the ambassador of Renaissance Fusion's vision within your team and promote its culture, values (speed, simplicity, fantastic realism, constructive interference, and unified force), and policies

• Encourage collaboration at all levels of the organization

• Ensure that your team is motivated to achieve its objectives: set targets and follow them up with encouragement, support, feedback and responsibility

• Ensure that employees are in the best position to achieve their objectives: listen to them, look after their well-being, make sure they have the appropriate tools and skills; fill the gap if necessary (recruitment, training, reorganization…)

• Take an active role in talent development: identify potential, determine areas and opportunities for development, encourage reflection on professional projects, propose training courses

• Appoint, empower, inspire and coordinate the group-leaders. Train the group-leaders of tomorrow

• Comply with and enforce the highest Health, Environment and Safety standards within your teams. Ensure that the laboratory is a safe, clean, well-organized, pleasant workplace by controlling many hazards (magnetic fields, high electric currents, very high and low temperatures, gases and high-pressure liquids, etc.)

Requirements

Do not hesitate to apply if you don’t meet all the requirements. Superheroes don’t exist; people with talent and passion do.

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree or PhD in Mechanical, Electrical, or Systems Engineering (or a related field).

• 10+ years of engineering experience, including significant experience in team leadership and project delivery.

• Proven track record in managing multidisciplinary engineering projects, ideally in high-tech, energy, or scientific environments.

• Experience in product development, prototyping, and industrialization is highly valued.

Languages

• Fluent in English (C1)
• French proficiency (B1 or higher) is a plus

Technical Skills

• Strong leadership and communication skills; ability to coordinate with multiple technical teams

• Deep understanding of mechanical design, CAD tools (e.g., SolidWorks, CATIA, AutoCAD or equivalent), and engineering workflows

• Experience with design-for-manufacturing and complex assemblies

• Prototyping and scaling up to volume production, ideally gained in industries such as semiconductors, optical coatings, aero-space, photovoltaics, LED and OLED screens, MEMS, automotive coatings

• Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities

• Safety standards

• Technical challenges and risks management in complex projects

• Strategic project management: scheduling, measuring progress, managing risks, reporting.

• Contract management: measuring progress, managing risks, identifying issues and delays, developing recovery plans, negotiating cost, scope and schedule

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with cryogenics, superconductors, or vacuum systems,

• First-of-a-kind (FOAK) projects management

Why Join Us

• Be part of a pioneering company working on one of humanity’s greatest challenges — making fusion energy a reality.

• Collaborate with world-class scientists and engineers in a highly dynamic, mission-driven environment.

• Contribute directly to groundbreaking R&D and the development of future clean energy technology.

• Enjoy a startup atmosphere with flexibility, autonomy, and rapid professional growth opportunities.

What we offer

Visit our career page to learn more about our work environment and benefits.

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At Renaissance Fusion, we value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants equally for employment. We do not discriminate based on origin; gender; morals, sexual orientation; sexual identity; age; marital status; pregnancy; genetic characteristics; actual or assumed membership or non-membership of an ethnic group, nation or race; political opinions; trade union or mutual activities; religious beliefs; physical appearance; family name; place of residence; state of health; disability.

Department

Engineering As a Service (EAS)

Locations

Grenoble metropolitan area

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