--- title: 'CAD Admin at Pacific Fusion' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/cad-admin-pacific-fusion-san-leandro-ssj4hj6nws2k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # CAD Admin at Pacific Fusion - **Company:** Pacific Fusion - **Location:** San Leandro, CA - **Compensation:** $140k–$180k - **Posted:** 2026-10-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/pacificfusion/jobs/4474202009 ## Job description ## About Pacific Fusion Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy. We are rapidly designing and building a pulser-driven inertial fusion system to achieve net facility gain (more fusion energy output than stored energy input). In parallel, we are developing the key components required to build affordable fusion systems. Our plans are ambitious. We have raised over $900M so far from incredible investors, resourcing us to deliver on these plans. We are bringing together the best scientists, engineers, and operators from the fusion community, hard tech industry, and other sectors. We are united by a shared sense of urgency to provide clean power for the world, particularly managing climate change while meeting growing global energy demand. You can read more about us in [this letter from our founders](https://www.pacificfusion.com/resources/founders-letter). ## Why This Role Matters As a CAD Administrator, you will be the backbone of engineering productivity across our fusion demonstration system. Engineers, designers, scientists, and technicians rely on our CAD ecosystem and PLM integration to rapidly iterate on complex mechanical and electrical assemblies. You will own the configuration, maintenance, optimization, and user support for our CAD tools and standard libraries — centered on PTC Creo and Windchill — ensuring our engineering team operates with maximum speed, accuracy, and efficiency. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of design engineering, IT, and PLM, enabling seamless hardware creation at startup speed. ## What You'll Do - Administer, configure, and maintain our CAD software tools (Creo Parametric) - Manage CAD software licensing, user accounts, access permissions, server deployments, and software updates in partnership with IT and PLM Admin - Establish, standardize, and maintain standard CAD libraries, seed files, drawing templates, start parts, and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) component catalogs - Develop, document, and enforce CAD modeling best practices, layer standards, parametric modeling conventions, and drawing standards across the organization - Provide technical support and troubleshooting for design engineers encountering CAD crashes, performance bottlenecks, workspace sync issues, or assembly corruptions - Onboard and train design engineers, technicians, and contractors on company CAD standards, modeling workflows, and Windchill CAD integration - Optimize CAD environment performance, including local vault cache configurations, workstation hardware recommendations, and graphics driver settings - Spearhead the campaign to fully automate drawing creation and initial checking to increase engineering throughput in a phased approach ## What You Bring - 4+ years of experience in CAD Administration, CAD System Engineering, or CAD/PLM Application Support in a hardware design/manufacturing environment - Deep administrative expertise with major CAD platforms (e.g., PTC Creo Parametric, SolidWorks, Altium) and their system configuration tools - Hands-on experience managing CAD-to-PLM integrations, specifically PTC Windchill CAD Data Management (PDMLink / Workgroup Managers) - Demonstrated experience building and managing CAD part libraries, start parts, design templates, and modeling standards - Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex client-side CAD crashes, file dependencies, and dataset integrity issues - Proactive, "DOer," and self-starter capable of navigating the ambiguity of a first-of-a-kind research project - Excellent communication and customer-service mindset to support and influence cross-functional teams of scientists and engineers Bonus Points For - Experience with CAD automation, scripting (e.g., Creo Toolkit, Python, VB.net), or macro development to streamline repetitive design tasks - Experience managing CAD/PLM environments in a high-complexity hardware startup or national laboratory environment (e.g., SNL, LANL, LLNL) Pay Range: $140,000—$180,000 USD ## TOTAL COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS FOR ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES - 💰 Industry-Competitive Salary - 🚀 Equity Plan - 🏦 6% Employer 401k Matching - 🌴 Generous Paid Time Off (including sick leave, vacation, paid family leave) - 🩺 Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance Actual base salary offered will be determined by: experience, skills, and work location. This range is for base salary, our total compensation includes equity and benefits. We welcome you to apply even if your expectations are outside our listed range. ## EQUAL OPPORTUNTITY Pacific Fusion is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Pacific Fusion is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures and throughout employment. If you need assistance or any accommodation, please let us know. ## U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE This position may require access to information or technology that is subject to U.S. export control laws, such as ITAR or EAR. Under these regulations, we are required to ensure that such access is provided only to individuals who are classified as 'U.S. Persons.'This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending. ## RECRUITING AGENCIES Pacific Fusion does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies without a fully executed recruitment agreement in place. In the absence of such agreement, Pacific Fusion reserves the right to pursue and hire any candidates without an obligation to pay fees. Agencies are requested not to contact Pacific Fusion hiring managers or employees regarding recruiting services. ## About Pacific Fusion ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Pacific Fusion is developing a pulsed magnetic inertial fusion system designed to deliver affordable, clean, commercial fusion energy by the early 2030s. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A) - **Headquarters**: Fremont, California, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Eric Lander (CEO), Keith LeChien (CTO), Carrie von Muench (COO), Will Regan, Leland Ellison ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Fusion Energy / Renewable Energy Power Generation - **Target Customers**: Utility companies, large-scale industrial power consumers, and governments seeking clean, baseload energy generation. - **Mission Statement**: To power a prosperous planet by delivering affordable, reliable fusion power to meet growing global energy demand and address the climate crisis [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/). ## Products & Services - **Pulsed Magnetic Inertial Fusion System**: A modular fusion power plant design that uses a fast, powerful electrical pulser to rapidly compress small fuel containers (centimeter-scale) of deuterium-tritium fuel. The system is designed to achieve "net facility gain" — producing more fusion energy output than the total stored energy input. The approach is highly modular, enabling affordable manufacturing and rapid iteration using common materials [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/). ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric (Total Funding)**: Over **$900 million** raised in Series A funding (announced October 2024) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacificfusion), [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by **General Catalyst**, with participation from **Breakthrough Energy Ventures**, **Ken Griffin** (Citadel founder), **Patrick Collison** (Stripe co-founder), **John Doerr** (venture capitalist), **Mustafa Suleyman** (Microsoft AI), and **Eric Schmidt** (former Google CEO) who joined the board [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount has grown **118.8% YoY** to approximately 151 employees [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacificfusion). - In September 2025, selected Mesa del Sol, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a **$1 billion research and manufacturing facility**, expected to create 200 permanent jobs and ~1,000 construction jobs [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). - In December 2025, opened its first build center in Los Lunas, New Mexico [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). - In June 2026, achieved a key technical milestone: a scaled module prototype delivered **over 440 GW of peak output power** and **~1.1 MV peak voltage** in ultra-fast pulses, demonstrating the performance required for fusion conditions [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). ## Competitive Advantages - **Proven Science, Practical Engineering**: The company is building on decades of government-funded research (including breakthroughs at Sandia and US National Labs in 2022) and using an advanced pulsed power driver (the Impedance-Matched Marx Generator, co-invented by CTO Keith LeChien), which is designed to be simpler and more manufacturable than other fusion approaches [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/), [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). - **Modular and Affordable Design**: The system is made of three highly modular parts (a fast electric pulser, a small fusion chamber, and tiny fuel containers), enabling cheap, rapid iteration and supply chain simplicity [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/). - **Clear Path to Commercialization**: The company has a defined roadmap with milestone-based funding, a specific goal of achieving net facility gain by 2030, and is already investing heavily in large-scale manufacturing facilities [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/), [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). ## Strategic Focus - **Technical Milestone Execution**: Rapidly building and testing scaled prototypes of their pulser system to demonstrate fusion conditions. - **Manufacturing Scale-Up**: Building out the $1 billion facility in New Mexico to house the Demonstration System and prepare for commercial production. - **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring top-tier scientists, engineers, and operators from the fusion community, national labs, and hard-tech industry (e.g., Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, Tesla, SpaceX) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacificfusion). - **Workforce Development**: Partnering with local universities in New Mexico to create training programs for its future workforce [wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion). ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Impact**: Employees are united by a "shared sense of urgency" to solve the climate crisis and provide clean, abundant power for the world [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/careers). - **Award-Winning Culture**: 100% of employees say Pacific Fusion is a Great Place to Work (vs. 57% at a typical US company), earning the company the #60 spot on Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™ 2025 list [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/7085506). - **Core Values**: The company operates on four key values: *Support each other, Pursue the truth, Encourage creative approaches, Commit to impact* [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/careers). - **Work Environment**: A builder's mentality with a mix of scientists, engineers, and operators. Roles are on-site in Fremont, CA; San Leandro, CA; Albuquerque, NM; and Los Lunas, NM. The culture emphasizes rapid iteration, open communication, and practical engineering. - **Strong Financial Backing**: With over $900M in funding from top-tier investors, the company is well-resourced to pursue its ambitious timeline. ## Sources 1. [pacificfusion.com](https://pacificfusion.com/) 2. [pacificfusion.com/careers](https://pacificfusion.com/careers) 3. [linkedin.com/company/pacificfusion](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pacificfusion) 4. [wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fusion) 5. 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