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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.\nBY JOINING OUR TEAM YOU’LL GET TO\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\nYOUR IMPACT\nIn this role, you will play a key part in developing the embedded control platform and will translate functional and control requirements into embedded hardware and software architectures, select appropriate microcontrollers, DSP, FPGA, or other controller technologies, and develop real-time software close to the hardware implementation. Your work will directly influence the performance, reliability, safety, and will require close collaboration with power electronics, integrated electronics, mechanical, thermal, and system engineers.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nDefine embedded controller architectures for power electronic converters and select suitable microcontrollers, DSP, FPGA.\n\nTranslate power electronics and control requirements into efficient, deterministic, and robust real-time software implementations.\n\nDevelop, test, debug, and validate embedded software on target hardware, from individual software blocks through complete controller implementations and automated testing environments to validate the design.\n\nExplore new controller technologies, embedded architectures, and software implementation concepts to improve converter performance, flexibility, reliability, functionality, and maintainability.\n\nWHO YOU ARE\nYou hold a University (Higher education) degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.\n\nYou have a strong understanding of embedded architectures, and the practical considerations involved in selecting controllers for demanding real-time applications.\n\nYou are an expert in embedded software development for real-time applications, preferably in power electronics, industrial automation, or similar applications, spanning FPGA programming, systems programming, hardware interfaces and communication protocols.\n\nYou are experienced in monitoring and debugging software directly on target hardware\n\nNICE TO HAVE\nExperience with model-based development, hardware-in-the-loop testing, automated testing, or safety-critical software development is a plus.\n\nINTERVIEW PROCESS\nRecruiter Interview (30-60 min)\n\nTechnical Screening (30 min)\n\nTechnical Panel (3x60 min)\n\nAt Proxima Fusion, our mission is bold: making limitless clean energy a reality. 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