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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.