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Security Engineer
<h3><strong>WHO WE ARE</strong></h3><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"></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"></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><h3><strong>WHY JOIN US</strong></h3><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Work on a civilisation-scale problem </strong>- Clean, baseload fusion energy is one of the few genuinely world-changing challenges, and every hire directly accelerates the path to a working stellarator.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Grow as fast as the company does</strong> - With headcount set to roughly 5x in a few years and major technical milestones ahead on the path to our demo machine and first power plant, your role grows under you; today's hire is tomorrow's function lead.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Tackle problems that don't exist elsewhere</strong> - Fusion sits at a rare intersection of deep-tech R&D, industrial procurement, government relations, and venture financing, so non-tech functions face challenges no other workplace can offer.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3>YOUR IMPACT</h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">As our Senior Security Engineer in Munich, you will own security implementation and security monitoring, digital and physical, for a company building one of the most valuable bodies of fusion IP in Europe. Protecting it is its own challenge, and you are the person who will own it.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h3><strong>WHAT YOU WILL DO</strong></h3><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Build out our security monitoring capability: select and run the SIEM, decide what's worth alerting on, and tune out the noise.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Own incident response end-to-end, from investigation through to a post-mortem and a fix that holds.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Harden the environment hands-on across endpoint and EDR, identity and access, network, and infrastructure.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Finish maturing Zero Trust: identity and device posture as joint conditions for access, and MFA everywhere.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Handle the long tail of edge cases that comes with a fast-growing team and a lot of contractors.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">• Secure our Google-centric workplace, where most of our IP moves — DLP, data classification and labeling, retention,