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Lead R&D Engineer, Tritium-Breeding Blanket
<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.<br /><br /><strong>TEAM AND ROLE</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Shape the architecture of the world’s first commercial fusion power plant</strong> – Own system-level decisions that determine how a first-of-a-kind energy technology is designed, integrated, and ultimately deployed at scale.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Solve some of the most complex engineering challenges in industry</strong> – Work across tightly coupled disciplines (plasma physics, magnets, cryogenics, manufacturing, controls, and more) to resolve critical trade-offs and turn cutting-edge science into a functioning product.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build real hardware with a pragmatic, fast-moving team from all over the world</strong> – Combine advanced simulation and systems thinking with a strong execution mindset, focusing on practical engineering solutions that accelerate the path to commercial fusion energy.</p></li></ul><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 Lead R&D Engineer for the Stellaris tritium-breeding blanket, you will build and lead Proxima Fusion’s blanket development from initial concept to first prototype tests. You will translate a defined R&D budget into a small set of parallel breeder-blanket concepts, developed rapidly with external research and industrial partners.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Remote maintainability is a fundamental part of the blanket architecture from day one. Each concept must be thought with the power plant arch