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# Facilities Technician at Inertia

- **Company:** Inertia
- **Location:** Livermore
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inertia/a0947690-b221-4be8-a6ab-b0bcd7a047a6

## Job description

Overview:

We are seeking a Facilities Technician to play a key role in the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of our Inertia HQ. This hands-on position supports facility, process, and laboratory equipment maintenance and troubleshooting, as well as shipping, receiving, inventory, and warehouse operations. You’ll serve as a first responder for equipment and site issues, coordinate with outside service providers, and play an important role on our Emergency Response Team (ERT).

## What You’ll Get to Do

Facilities & Equipment

- Serve as the first in-house responder for facility, equipment, and utility issues, troubleshooting problems and coordinating repairs.
- Perform and document preventive maintenance and calibration of process equipment, lab equipment, HVAC, utilities, and building systems.
- Coordinate and oversee outside service providers performing maintenance and repairs.
- Complete work orders and documentation in accordance with Inertia SOPs.
- Troubleshoot and perform minor repairs on equipment, instrumentation, plumbing, compressed air, hydraulic, and other building systems.
- Support fire and life-safety systems, equipment assembly, workstation moves, and general facility needs.
- Provide after-hours support for urgent facility, equipment, or utility issues as needed.

Logistics & Warehouse

- Receive, inspect, and process incoming materials and verify shipments against purchase orders.
- Implement and track inventory using a Warehouse Management System (WMS) and perform routine cycle counts.
- Prepare outgoing shipments and perform final inspections for quality and accuracy.
- Safely operate forklifts, pallet jacks, dollies, hoists, and other material-handling equipment.
- Maintain clean, organized, and safe warehouse and storage areas.

Safety & Emergency Response

- Maintain a safety-first approach and proactively identify and address unsafe conditions.
- Serve as an active member of the Emergency Response Team (ERT).
- Support safe hazardous-material handling and spill containment.
- Safely work at heights and operate equipment such as scissor lifts when required.

## What You Bring to Inertia

- 5–10+ years of experience in facilities, building maintenance, mechanical trades, or a related field.
- Experience in warehousing, logistics, shipping and receiving, or material handling.
- Strong mechanical aptitude with hands-on troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Laboratory or cleanroom experience.
- Machine shop experience.
- Basic knowledge of HVAC, Building Management System, plumbing, compressed air, hydraulic, and fire/life-safety systems.
- Ability to read mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, and blueprints.
- Experience with CMMS software and basic computer proficiency.
- Ability to obtain and maintain forklift certification.
- Ability to lift 50–75 lbs. unassisted and stand or walk for extended periods.
- Strong communication, documentation, and organizational skills.
- Ability to adapt quickly and manage changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus Points

- First Aid, CPR, and AED training.
- Experience with WMS and shipping software.
- OSHA 10 or OSHA 30 certification.
- Previous Emergency Response Team experience.

## SALARY & BENEFITS:

- The salary range for this role is $40 - $50/hour; The pay range provided is an estimated base range for this role. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and education.
- We offer market-competitive compensation and an excellent benefits program, including Medical, Dental, and Vision plans, company-paid holidays, matching 401k, and more!

About Inertia:

Inertia is taking the most direct, scientifically-proven path to commercializing fusion, leveraging the only successful achievement of fusion ignition, using a process that was pioneered at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). With groundbreaking innovation, transformative technology, and multi-year investment, Inertia is committed to commercializing fusion energy in the next decade.

This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls, security classification and/or designation as Controlled Unclassified Information. Employment in this position is conditioned on the candidate’s eligibility for, obtaining and maintaining appropriate government authorization to access technology or information, to the extent required, including without limitation a security clearance, export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items technology or information.

## About Inertia

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Inertia is a commercial fusion energy company developing laser-based inertial fusion power plants based on proven physics from the National Ignition Facility.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – raised $450M in February 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Livermore, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jeff Lawson (CEO), Mike Dunne (Co-Founder, CTO & SVP Fusion Power), Annie Kritcher (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Renewable energy, fusion power generation
- **Target customers**: Utility-scale electricity providers and grid operators (B2B, enterprise)
- **Mission**: Create limitless clean energy by commercializing the only proven approach to fusion – laser-driven inertial fusion – and delivering gigawatt-scale, dispatchable power.

## Products & Services
- **Fusion Power Plant**: A grid-scale, 1.5GW baseload plant that uses a 10MJ laser firing ten times per second at mass-produced fuel targets, generating electricity via steam turbines. First plant expected in the 2030s.
- **Fusion Fuel Targets**: Peppercorn-sized capsules of fusion fuel mass-manufactured for less than $1 each, enabling continuous, low-cost operation.
- **Modular Laser System**: The world’s most powerful laser (by average power), built from thousands of modular, replaceable beamlines (shipping-container-sized), 20x more efficient than NIF and 1/10th the footprint.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Total Funding**: $450M (Series A, February 2026) from leading venture investors
- **Key Metric**: 23 employees as of mid-2026; 16 active job postings; monthly headcount growth of +46.4% [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inertia-fusion)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by a group of leading visionaries and investors (names not disclosed in public materials). Public-private partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) signed April 2026 [inertia.com](https://inertia.com/press/)
- **Growth Signals**: Proven physics (first net-energy-gain fusion experiment at NIF in 2022); $450M Series A; partnership with LLNL to commercialize fusion; rapid hiring across engineering, laser science, and manufacturing roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proven physics basis**: Only company commercializing the laser-driven inertial fusion approach that has already achieved net-positive ignition (NIF 2022, repeated multiple times). Avoids scientific risk.
- **Modular laser architecture**: Thousands of identical, manufacturable laser units allow rapid scaling, redundancy, and cost reduction through mass production.
- **Low-cost fuel targets**: Mass-manufacturing targets for under $1 each eliminates the hand-crafted, expensive targets used in research labs.
- **Integrated power plant design**: Leverages existing turbine and grid infrastructure; breeds its own fuel and recycles components.

## Strategic Focus
- **Immediate priorities**: Build the world’s first assembly line for fusion fuel targets; construct the prototype modular laser beamline in Livermore; complete an integrated, fully consistent power plant design.
- **Next phase**: Scale both laser and target production into a gigawatt, utility-scale fusion power plant during the 2030s, demonstrating end-to-end energy generation.
- **Long-term**: Drive down cost for subsequent commercial facilities, targeting grid-scale, zero-emission baseload power.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: "Building big" to solve climate change with limitless clean energy. The team emphasizes engineering over scientific risk, using known physics to commercialize rapidly.
- **Early-stage impact**: Small team (~23 employees) means each hire can have outsized influence across laser physics, target manufacturing, plant design, and business operations.
- **Work environment**: On-site in Livermore, CA (facilities for laser and target prototyping). Roles span mechanical engineering, controls, laser science, manufacturing, and content/storytelling.
- **Notable perks/benefits**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company offers competitive compensation in a high-growth, venture-backed startup. Open positions include senior engineers, scientists, and a Head of Content & Storytelling [inertia.com](https://inertia.com/jobs/).
- **Leadership**: Founded by proven entrepreneurs (Jeff Lawson, former Twilio CEO) and world-class fusion scientists (Mike Dunne led the US government fusion power plant program; Annie Kritcher designed the first net-positive ignition experiment).

## Sources
1. [inertia.com – Homepage](https://www.inertia.com/)
2. [inertia.com – Founders Message](https://inertia.com/press/founders-message/)
3. [inertia.com – Press Releases](https://inertia.com/press/)
4. [linkedin.com – Inertia Fusion](https://www.linkedin.com/company/inertia-fusion)
5. [inertia.com – Jobs Page](https://inertia.com/jobs/)

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