Last month we published an October update to our March look at trends in fusion hiring. One month on, open positions are at a new high and the mix of roles has shifted, so here is a shorter update. We track jobs from 61 fusion and fusion-related organizations, crawling their job boards several times a day.
Openings are at a new high
As of November 12, there were 887 open positions on our board, the most since we started tracking. That is up about 8% from mid-October and 43% from mid-March, when there were about 620.
The October rebound levelled off at around 820 openings for about a week, and then the count started climbing again. Two things explain most of the month's net gain of about 65 openings. First, about 24 come from three organizations we started tracking after the October article, mostly General Atomics (19). Counting only the organizations we were already tracking, openings rose about 5%. Second, internship season has started. Open internship postings nearly doubled, from 31 to 60, as Commonwealth Fusion Systems posted its 2027 internships and Type One Energy its summer internships.
Behind the net change is a lot of turnover. Since the October article, 383 postings went up and 317 came down.
Who's hiring now?
Commonwealth Fusion Systems still has the most open positions, 136, up from 120 in October, with new internship postings accounting for the increase. Xcimer Energy (65) has edged past Helion Energy (64) into second place, followed by Thea Energy (61), Proxima Fusion (55), SHINE Technologies (42), and Type One Energy (39). Xcimer Energy and Thea Energy each added about ten openings in the month. The UK Atomic Energy Authority, sixth in October with 45, now lists 35.
What disciplines are in demand?
Electrical engineering (136) has passed physics (132) to become the largest single category, up from 102 a month ago. The new electrical engineering postings are spread across 22 organizations, and many of them are control systems and instrumentation roles. Physics and mechanical engineering (123) are essentially unchanged. Project management (55, up from 41) and technician roles (86, up from 77) also grew.
How long do job postings stay open?
This has not changed in a month. The typical fusion job posting still stays up for about six weeks, with legal and communications postings coming down fastest and lasers and optics, electrical engineering, and manufacturing postings staying up longest. The numbers for each discipline moved by less than a week, so we haven't repeated the chart. It is in the October update.
A note on listing your jobs
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