Instrumentation Development Embedded Engineer

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>WHO WE ARE</strong> </p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player, as well as the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Turning 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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>WHY JOIN PROXIMA FUSION</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will get to work on some of the most complex tech challenges to bring abundant, safe, clean energy to the world.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll get to join and learn from an exceptional selection of accomplished and driven individuals.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Do your life’s best work and enjoy the journey.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Get to show that big things are possible in Europe when you assemble the best talent.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>YOUR IMPACT</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As the Instrumentation Development Embedded Engineer, you will own the development of high-speed control and protection systems for the Alpha fusion demonstrator, focusing on FPGA-based solutions for plasma heating hardware protection.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will work across the full development lifecycle, from writing and verifying HDL code to developing software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing, integrating embedded software and electronics, and establishing robust development and deployment pipelines.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will also help establish Proxima’s FPGA development capability beyond plasma heating, defining reusable architectures, development workflows, testing methodologies, and HDL best practices that can be adopted across other systems.<br /></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>WHAT YOU WILL DO</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design, implement, and maintain HDL-based control and protection systems, starting with plasma heating system protection.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Establish end-to-end FPGA development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and SIL/HIL test environments integrated with plant design frameworks.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Develop embedded software, firmware, and low-level drivers to interface FPGAs with sensors, actuators, and other control systems.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate across RF, controls, electronics, and