I'm not sure how you would end up on the fusion program as a FAANG engineer. Software engineering is vastly different than the physical sciences (I've worked i

I'm not sure how you would end up on the fusion program as a FAANG engineer. Software engineering is vastly different than the physical sciences (I've worked in both). I worked a bit with the Sandia and some folks from national labs on the corporate side in the energy industry. The only software engineers I was aware of were ones that did IT work (Integrated workday, salesforce, etc). The scientists and mech/chem/EE engineers I met were the ones doing all the physical sciences work.