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Proxima Fusion is Europe's fastest-growing fusion company and the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. Backed by over €650M with teams across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford, the company is developing hardware and infrastructure for the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. The company's technology advances the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator through next-generation machines (Alpha and Stellaris), combining stellarator optimization, advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets.
In this role, you will architect and develop the embedded control platform for power electronic converters and control systems. You 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 implementations. Your work directly influences the performance, reliability, and safety of fusion systems and requires close collaboration with power electronics, integrated electronics, mechanical, thermal, and system engineers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define embedded controller architectures for power electronic converters and select suitable microcontrollers, DSP, and FPGA technologies
- Translate power electronics and control requirements into efficient, deterministic, and robust real-time software implementations
- Develop, test, debug, and validate embedded software on target hardware, from individual software blocks through complete controller implementations
- Build automated testing environments to validate designs
- Explore new controller technologies, embedded architectures, and software implementation concepts to improve converter performance, flexibility, reliability, and maintainability
You will be part of a highly ambitious, multidisciplinary team combining cutting-edge simulation with hands-on engineering to turn bold ideas into real hardware on the path to commercial fusion energy.
REQUIREMENTS:
- University degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- Strong understanding of embedded architectures and practical considerations for selecting controllers for demanding real-time applications
- Expert-level embedded software development for real-time applications, preferably in power electronics or industrial automation
- Proficiency in FPGA programming, systems programming, hardware interfaces, and communication protocols
- Experience monitoring and debugging software directly on target hardware
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with model-based development, hardware-in-the-loop testing, automated testing, or safety-critical software development
