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Location: Remote 

Reports To: Co-Founder, CTO

Employee Type: Contract / Hourly

Compensation: Equity + Project Based Compensation

Morton Labs Mission: To accelerate commercial fusion energy by developing the foundational computational Software and tools necessary to deploy the first generation of predictive Fusion Digital Twins.

About The Role

Morton Labs is seeking an exceptional PhD Level Computational Physicist to join our core engineering team. You will be the crucial link between the high-fidelity physics codes used by our clients and our in-house robust software platform. You will use your deep understanding of physics simulation environments to architect the tools that automate, link, and optimize the execution of multi-physics codes at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Code Interoperability: Design, develop, and implement software wrappers and standardized interfaces to achieve high-speed coupling between existing, complex fusion physics codes (e.g., MHD codes like M3DC1/DESC, OpenMC).

• Workflow Automation: Develop automated computational pipelines to replace manual, fragmented scripting processes, specifically targeting high-value client problems.

• Verification & Validation (V&V): Lead the benchmarking effort for integrated workflows, ensuring the accuracy and fidelity of the platform's results against historical experimental data and known simulation runs.

• Data Structure Design: Collaborate on defining the initial data schemas for capturing complex simulation inputs, outputs, and metadata, feeding into the platform's advanced database management system.

• Performance Optimization: Identify computational bottlenecks in coupled workflows and implement strategies to reduce simulation turnaround time from weeks to hours or days.

Required Qualifications

• Education: PhD in Plasma Physics, Computational Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or a closely related field.

• Experience: Proven expertise in performing and analyzing simulations of plasma environments (e.g., magnetic confinement, inertial fusion, radiation, hydrodynamics).

• HPC Proficiency: Extensive experience running and managing simulations on High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters or major cloud platforms.

• Programming: High proficiency in at least one scientific programming language used in fusion (e.g., Python, C, C++, or Fortran) with a focus on code structure, data handling, and I/O.

• Problem-Solving: A strong desire to bridge the gap between physics modeling and scalable software engineering.

Highly Desired Skills

• Direct experience with or deep familiarity with the input/output structures of key fusion codes such as M3DC1, DESC, ASCOT5, or similar proprietary codes in the ICF/Pulsed Power space.

• Familiarity with modern software development practices (Git, CI/CD, Containerization/Docker).

• Experience in uncertainty quantification (UQ) and sensitivity analysis of computational models.

• Familiarity with cloud computing environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) for scientific computing.

Reports To: Co-Founder, CTO

Employee Type: Full Time, Remote

Compensation: 0.25 - 1.0% Equity + $110-160k

About Morton Labs At Morton Labs, we are building the computational backbone for the fusion energy age. As the industry transitions from scientific curiosity to commercial deployment, it faces a massive software bottleneck: the critical physics codes needed to design these reactors are fragmented, scattered across National Labs, and written in legacy languages that do not natively communicate.

We act as the "Systems Integration Layer" for the industry, transforming world-class scientific codes into an industrial-grade operating system. Our mission is simple: "We don’t rewrite the physics; we build the plumbing". By providing standardized data schemas, workflow orchestration, and cross-environment deployment, we allow the world's leading physicists to focus on advancing fusion science rather than wrestling with software infrastructure.

The Role 

We are seeking a highly technical, customer-facing Solutions Architect to bridge the gap between our prospective clients (private fusion startups, National Laboratories, and universities) and our core engineering team.

You will lead the technical engagement process, translating the complex, disjointed workflows of computational physicists into reproducible, enterprise-grade architecture on the Morton Labs Simulation Platform. You will not be responsible for inventing new physics; instead, you will architect the "connective tissue" that allows disparate solvers to run seamlessly in automated, multi-physics workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Customer Discovery & Deep Dives: Conduct detailed technical audits of prospective clients' current simulation processes. You will inventory the codebases they use, review their meshes, solvers, and workflows, and identify their biggest gaps.

• Design Code Coupling Frameworks: Identify specific requirements to loosely or tightly couple distinct physics codes (e.g., passing thermal loads from OpenFOAM to mechanical models, or integrating OpenMC for neutronics) without requiring engineers to manually write interpolation scripts.

• Architect Infrastructure Strategies: Propose and design deployment architectures tailored to customer needs, whether that involves cloud compute (AWS, Azure, GCP), on-premises HPC clusters, or secure, air-gapped environments.

• Data Modeling & Standardization: Help define the data models and metadata pipelines required to solve the "Dark Data" problem, ensuring that chaotic log files are translated into structured, AI-ready schemas with automated provenance tracking.

• Deliver Implementation Roadmaps

• Navigate Legacy to Modern: Assist in bridging the gap between legacy Fortran/C++ codebases and modern, reproducible "press-go" workflows (utilizing containerization and the Spack package manager).

Qualifications

• Technical Foundation: Advanced degree (or equivalent experience) in Computational Physics, Nuclear Engineering, Computer Science, or a related high-consequence engineering discipline.

• Domain Familiarity: Experience working with complex, multi-physics simulation tools commonly used in the nuclear or aerospace sectors (e.g., OpenMC, OpenFOAM, MOOSE, MCNP, WarpX).

• Systems Architecture Expertise: Deep understanding of High-Performance Computing (HPC), cloud-native infrastructure, containerization (Docker/Singularity), and package management for complex dependencies.

• Customer-Facing Experience: Proven ability to interface with highly specialized stakeholders (e.g., PhD physicists, Lab Directors, CTOs), deeply understand their technical pain points, and map those to scalable software solutions.

• Problem-Solving Mindset: You excel in environments where the answer is not yet defined, finding ways to apply structured systems engineering to workflows that are currently reliant on "tribal knowledge" and manual bash scripts.

Undergraduate Physics Intern (Computational)

Company: Morton Labs

Location: Remote

Term: Summer 2026 (10–12 Weeks)

The Mission

We are looking for a Physics Intern who wants to do more than just tweak parameters in a pre-made GUI. You’ll be helping us develop the Morton SDK—the core toolkit our engineers use to solve massive physical problems on some of the world’s fastest computers.

Real Ownership from Day One

We don’t believe in "intern projects" that get deleted in August. You will have real ownership over a specific component of our stack. Whether it’s optimizing a specific solver, improving how we package our environment with Spack, or helping us containerize physics workloads for GPU acceleration, the code you write will stay in our production pipeline long after your internship ends.

What You’ll Do

• Computational Modeling: Help us bridge the gap between a LaTeX equation and a running simulation.

• Platform Development: Use Docker to ensure our physics environment is reproducible anywhere—from a laptop to an air-gapped supercomputer.

• Performance Testing: Assist in benchmarking how our SDK handles "Exascale" problems (very, very large datasets).

• Provenance Tracking: Help build systems that "prove" where simulation data came from, ensuring our results are scientifically rigorous.

What We’re Looking For

• The Physics Mindset: You are currently an undergraduate student in Physics (or a closely related field like Applied Math). You have a solid grasp of classical mechanics and electromagnetism.

• Coding Experience: You have experience writing code to solve problems. You should be comfortable translating logic into a script. You don't need to be a software engineer yet, but you should enjoy the process of debugging.

• Curiosity for Infrastructure: You’re interested in the "how" of computing—how software talks to hardware and how to keep complex systems organized.

• Attention to Detail: Since we work in high-stakes environments, you care about the "provenance" (the history and integrity) of your work.

Why Morton Labs?

• Mentorship: Work directly with physicists and engineers who have built world-class simulation tools.

• The Stack: Get hands-on with professional tools like Spack, Docker, and GPU clusters.

• Impact: Your work helps ensure that when we simulate a bridge, a turbine, or a particle, the results are fast, accurate, and secure.