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Backed by over €650M and powered by a growing team across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford, we are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.\nOur concept advances the most mature fusion technology out there, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, through two next-generation machines: Alpha and Stellaris. Our work combines stellarator optimization, advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets to unlock higher-performance designs that were previously out of reach.\nTurning these designs into a functioning fusion power plant requires excellence and ownership across every discipline, from physics and engineering to software, manufacturing, law, and business functions.\nWHY JOIN PROXIMA FUSION\nYou will get to work on some of the most complex tech challenges to bring abundant, safe, clean energy to the world.\n\nYou'll get to join and learn from an exceptional selection of accomplished and driven individuals.\n\nDo your life’s best work and enjoy the journey.\n\nGet to show that big things are possible in Europe when you assemble the best talent.\n\nYOUR IMPACT\nProxima will sell fusion electricity in the late 2030s. Our Business Development team shapes our growth strategy by identifying and executing organic and inorganic business opportunities on the way there. You will own deals along our Business Development playbook, from market scan to a clear go/no-go from leadership, with an initial focus on inorganic ones (e.g. M&A, JV). You will work directly with the Business Development Lead and the Head of Business Operations, and partner with finance, legal, engineering, manufacturing and supply chain teams.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nOwn the front of the deal funnel: Produce market reports, competitive landscapes, and company assessments that shape where Proxima invests.\n\nDrive clear decisions: Write investment memos that lead to a go/no-go from the leadership team and board, working with our technical teams to ground the analysis in engineering reality.\n\nRun deal workstreams: Lead expert calls, reference checks and data room screening, and build trusted relationships with founders, owners and advisors along the way.\n\nStrengthen the function: Shape how the team runs deals, and systematically deploy AI tools to speed up research, screening, and drafting.\n\nSource new opportunities: Represent Proxima Fusion at conferences and industry events, grow a network across the fusion industry, and feed new ideas into the pipeline, including organic ones over time.\n\nWHO YOU ARE\nDeal execution experience: 2-3 years in tier-1 strategy consulting, private equity, venture capital, or a fast-paced startup, ideally with exposure to industrials, energy, or advanced manufacturing.\n\nTechnical fluency: STEM degree (engineering, physics, mathematics or similar), or a demonstrated ability to work fluently with engineers on technical topics.\n\nRelationship building: You earn trust with very different counterparts (engineers, founders, family-owned businesses) and enjoy bringing different views together into one recommendation.\n\nClear communication: Fluent in English (written and spoken), a good listener, comfortable with senior stakeholders; German is a plus.\n\nStandalone problem-solving and judgement: You take an ambiguous question, structure it, run the analysis, and come back with a recommendation, knowing when to pull in others.\n\nModeling and writing craft: Strong market modeling and memo-writing skills; you can build a valuation, a business plan, and a two-page decision document that leadership actually reads.\n\nStartup mindset: Curious, proactive, detail-oriented, comfortable with pace and ambiguity, and excited by fusion energy and the industrial base behind it.\n\nDon’t tick every box? 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