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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\nAt Proxima Fusion, we're developing the world's leading stellarator technology. To turn cutting-edge designs into reality, we need skilled technicians who can bring complex, first-of-a-kind hardware to life. As a Technician at Proxima Fusion, you'll work hands-on with Proxima-designed components, magnets, mechanical assemblies and other critical systems, supporting their build, assembly, integration and testing.\nWorking closely with Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality, you'll help turn ambitious designs into reliable hardware, solve practical challenges on the shop floor and contribute to developing the processes and tooling needed to build Alpha. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of advanced engineering and hands-on manufacturing, helping build one of Europe's most ambitious engineering projects.\nWHAT YOU WILL DO\nSet up, operate and change over the HTS cable line and plate assembly stations. Deliver routine production alongside complex, first-article and non-standard builds.\n\nCarry out precision assembly, fitting, fabrication and approved rework using drawings, work instructions and practical judgement.\n\nTroubleshoot process, assembly and quality problems, including handling issues, setup errors, dimensional variation and inconsistent output. Contain affected work, investigate the cause and help implement a verified correction.\n\nResolve unfamiliar or undocumented scenarios within agreed safety, quality and change-control limits. Develop and document practical solutions, and obtain engineering or quality approval before proceeding outside your authority.\n\nVerify setups and initial output, and inspect assemblies against released acceptance criteria at assigned in-process and final checks. Raise non-conformances and refer deviations or product-disposition decisions to the authorised owner.\n\nWork with equipment technicians on machine faults; provide design and manufacturing engineers clear measurements and feedback on buildability, tooling, and process performance.\n\nRun first-article builds and process trials with manufacturing engineering, and help prove tooling, fixtures and equipment ready for production.\n\nWrite, redline and improve work instructions and standard operating procedures using build experience. Route changes through review and release, and help improve cycle time, yield and repeatability.\n\nMaintain complete build records, material traceability, deviation records and clear handovers.\n\nWHO YOU ARE\nSubstantial hands-on experience building complex, high-precision assemblies, with capability beyond routine machine operation.\n\nA technical apprenticeship or vocational qualification in a relevant discipline, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nConfidence interpreting engineering drawings, assembly requirements and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), and using measuring equipment to verify work.\n\nProven practical troubleshooting skills, including experience investigating unfamiliar problems and distinguishing symptoms from underlying causes.\n\nExperience setting up equipment, using fixtures and handling sensitive components or materials with consistent workmanship.\n\nThe judgement to work with incomplete instructions while recognising when to proceed, stop or escalate, supported by a practical understanding of traceability, non-conformance and change control.\n\nThe ability to write instructions others can follow, explain technical problems clearly and train or support less-experienced technicians.\n\nWorking English for drawings, procedures, technical discussions and production records.\n\nNice to have\nExperience manufacturing cables, coils, superconducting magnets or other high-reliability assemblies involving delicate materials or controlled handling.\n\nExperience with winding, insulation, impregnation, soldering, brazing, precision bonding or reel-to-reel processing.\n\nExperience introducing new products or processes, supporting pilot builds or transferring development work into production.\n\nFamiliarity with structured problem solving, such as Lean/Six Sigma improvement methods.\n\nA Techniker or Meister qualification.\n\nGerman language skills.\n\nINTERVIEW PROCESS\nRecruiter Interview (30-60 min)\n\nTechnical Screening (30 min)\n\nTechnical Panel (3x60 min)\n\nCEO call (30 min)\n\n*This role sits at \"L3\" of our framework, please inquire during the recruitment process for further information.\nAt Proxima Fusion, our mission is bold: making limitless clean energy a reality. 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