Senior Control Systems Engineer

Fusionality; Vaud; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immigration assistance

Equity compensation

Competitive salary

Job summary

Fusionality in Lausanne is seeking a Senior Control Systems Engineer to help build the measurement, simulation and control stack for next‑gen fusion reactors. You will work across real-time software, firmware and hardware to monitor and control high-temperature plasmas.

As a founding team member, you will lead technical efforts, translate customer needs into specifications, and collaborate with plasma and control experts to deliver robust real-world systems with scalable performance.

Qualifications

• Experience taking hard-real-time acquisition and control loops from incomplete requirements through to commissioning on hardware.
• Full stack familiarity across real-time technologies, from physical/DAQ to real-time software and middleware.
• Fluency in high-level and low-level languages (C, C++, Rust, MATLAB/Simulink, Python).
• Experience with distributed real-time systems, real-time networking and field buses is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Implement real-time control, analysis, data acquisition systems in the kHz to MHz range, as individual contributor and in a team.
• Integrate solutions across a variety of company products and services as well as on our in-house test beds.
• Provide technical leadership within a growing real-time control and software engineering team that you will help to build.
• Translate customer needs into requirements and specifications.

Skills

C

C++

Rust

MATLAB/Simulink

Python

Tools

Real-time OS

SCADA

FPGA

DAQ/Embedded hardware

Job description

Fusionality is building the measurement, simulation and control stack of the fusion energy reactors of the future. Our technology enables effective and reliable operation, monitoring, and analysis of high-temperature plasmas in fusion devices - which will one day provide clean, practically limitless power to the grid. We have spun out of EPFL's Swiss Plasma Center and have just completed our pre-seed fundraise. We are looking for a Senior Control Systems Engineer to join our founding team in Lausanne and help build our core technology. This job is for you if you are a passionate engineer with deep knowledge cutting across real-time / embedded systems, software and hardware, and excited about building the systems to monitor and control real-world fusion plasmas.

Tasks

• Implement real-time control, analysis, data acquisition systems in the kHz to MHz range, as individual contributor and in a team.
• Integrate solutions across a variety of company products and services as well as on our in-house test beds.
• Provide technical leadership within a growing real-time control and software engineering team that you will help to build.
• Translate customer needs into requirements and specifications.

Requirements

• Experience taking hard-real-time acquisition and control loops from incomplete requirements through to commissioning on hardware, in domains such as automotive, robotics, embedded, electrical and/or scientific instrumentation.
• 'Full stack': familiarity with all aspects of real-time technologies, from physical/DAQ, real-time software frameworks and middleware, real-time OS and integration.
• Fluency in a mix of high-level and low-level languages such as C, C++, Rust, MATLAB/Simulink, Python. Obsession with code quality, testing and reliability.
• Experience with distributed real-time systems, real-time networking and field buses and/or SCADA is an advantage.
• Experience with embedded/μC/FPGA technologies and/or safety critical systems is an advantage.

Benefits

• The unique opportunity to play a foundational role at a dynamic, fast-growing startup, shaping the technical solutions and products from the ground up.
• The opportunity to build cutting edge technology to monitor and control plasmas in real fusion devices, working side-by-side with leading plasma and control experts.
• Great working conditions, located in Lausanne, Switzerland, a city and country known for its high quality of life.
• Competitive salary and equity compensation and benefits including immigration assistance.