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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.\nTEAM & ROLE\nArchitect a breakthrough energy technology - Play a defining role in designing and integrating the systems that will power the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion plant, influencing decisions that shape the future of clean energy.\n\nSolve some of the most complex engineering challenges in fusion - Work across magnet design, HTS technology, manufacturing, structural integration, and controls, turning cutting-edge science into real hardware\n\nMove fast and build what matters - Join a highly ambitious, multidisciplinary team that combines cutting-edge simulation with hands-on engineering, turning bold ideas into real hardware on the path to commercial fusion.\n\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\nYou will support the industrialisation of production processes for magnet production, contributing directly to the execution of key activities within Proxima’s magnet program.\nYou will play a central role in designing, programming and operating automation cells performing a wide array of production processes such as welding, bonding, sealing and coating.\nYou will operate across a wide range of technical tasks, from design and engineering to hands on production work, and collaborating closely with engineers and technicians\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nAdvise on future line design and automation concepts\n\nDefine the requirements for automation cells for different processes to ensure performance, repeatability and safe operation\n\nContribute to the development of control strategies for new production lines\n\nYou will build and commission automation cells, including running FAT at supplier sites\n\nIdentify and test different manufacturing and in-process monitoring approaches\n\nDesign jigs and tools for magnet industrialised production\n\nSupport in the process development and prototyping of magnets, with scalability and repeatability in mind.\n\nCollaborate closely with engineers and technicians across multiple teams\n\nWHO YOU ARE\nA master´s degree in mechanical, mechatronics or similar engineering field\n\nA wide experience in robotics, automation and process monitoring in an industrial setting\n\nStrong hands-on experience in production environments over a wide range of production processes (for ex. welding, machining, assembly, bonding)\n\nExperience with robotic simulation and offline programming (e.g. RoboGuide, RobotStudio, Process Simulate). 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