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Funding and backers

Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item

How Focused Energy hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
66 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

Focused Energy scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 66 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Focused Energy is an international deep-tech company working to commercialize laser-driven nuclear fusion for clean and virtually unlimited energy. It hires control systems, laser and machine learning engineers at sites in Germany and the United States. The company is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany.

News

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News WIRED 7 years ago
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I procrastinate. I get distracted. This San Francisco startup wants to help me (and everyone else) by coaching its clients through their to-do lists.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Focused Energy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
46
Postings analysed
34
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
Python35%
C++29%
Fortran9%
Structured Text3%
Frameworks & libraries
JAX6%
PyTorch6%
PyTorch C++6%
Ray6%
Databases
PostgreSQL3%
Cloud & platforms
Windows71%
DLP6%
RTOS6%
MLFlow6%
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
30
5 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
62 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
26% ▲
Backend
13% ▲
Management
8% ▼
Operations
8%
Science & Research
8% ▼
AI/ML
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Germany Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack Sep 2026
Added DLP to stack Sep 2026
Added Time Series Forecasting to stack Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026
Added Structured Text to stack Sep 2026
Added Simulink to stack Sep 2026
Added RTOS to stack Sep 2026
Added OPC UA to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Darmstadt
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Darmstadt Germany
HQ
19 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 16% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, HR
seen since Apr 2026 job postings
Austin United States
Plant / site
9 open roles 12 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Backend, Industrial Engineering, AI/ML
seen since Jun 2026 job postings
Berlin Germany
Corporate office
6 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Finance, HR, Legal
seen since May 2026 job postings

Jobs

≈ $135k – $274k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Austin
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Windows
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≈ $85k – $169k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Darmstadt
Python
C++
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≈ $70k – $162k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Darmstadt
Python
C++
Fortran
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
DVC
Weights & Biases
MLFlow
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
OpenMP
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
Machine Learning
DevOps
HPC
Robotics
NVIDIA Omniverse
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≈ $133k – $291k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Austin
Python
C++
Fortran
TensorFlow C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
DVC
Weights & Biases
MLFlow
Reinforcement Learning
JAX
OpenMP
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
Machine Learning
DevOps
HPC
Windows
Robotics
NVIDIA Omniverse
Digital Twin
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≈ $116k – $245k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Austin
Computer Vision
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≈ $65k – $114k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Darmstadt
Python
C++
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
Rest API
TCP/IP
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