Tritium Process Engineer

About Tritium Fuel Cycle (TFC) About the role Main responsibilities Qualification and educational requirements Competences and preferred skills While deuterium can be extracted from seawater, tritium is a tightly controlled radioactive isotope with an extremely limited global supply. Therefore, both GID-170 and GIGA must utilise closed tritium fuel cycle infrastructure, to ensure that unburnt tritium is fully recycled back to the stellarator and not released to the environment. Meanwhile, the tritium consumed by the fusion reaction must be replenished using tritium breeding blankets (TBB). A first-of-a-kind dedicated tritium fuel cycle (TFC) facility, suitable for continuously supporting a stellarator device, must be designed, built and commissioned. It will adopt a multi-loop process architecture, each loop comprising many deeply integrated subsystems. Developing such a facility presents unique engineering challenges: the supply chain is still emerging, commercial process simulation tools lack dedicated TFC libraries, suitable off-the-shelf equipment is not always available, and some technologies have relatively low technology readiness levels (TRLs). A conceptual design is currently under development, with the project then progressing into pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) in 2028, followed by front-end engineering design (FEED) and design for manufacturing phases. Completion of the overall design phase (for GID-170) must be achieved by 2032. About us Gauss Fusion is a European fusion company focused on industrialising stellarator fusion and developing a modular power plant architecture, critical technologies and industrial capabilities required for scaling fusion power plants in the future. The start-up was founded in 2022 by Frank Laukien together with European high-tech companies with capabilities in magnetic-confinement fusion and component production for Fusion experiments like ITER. Gauss Fusion combines fusion science and systems engineering with industrial engineering and manufacturing expertise. Its peer-reviewed GIGA™ power-plant platform provides the technologically most promising system-level architecture to build cost-efficient stellarator power plants at scale. Within this architecture, Gauss Fusion is advancing critical technologies in areas including demountable magnet systems, tritium breeding, fuel-cycle technologies, and plasma exhaust. Working with industrial partners, technology providers and leading research institutions across Europe, the company is building the engineering, technologies and supply-chain capabilities required to progress stellarator fusion towards industrial deployment. Join us on our journey to revolutionize the energy landscape and make fusion power a reality. The time is now!