Senior Real-Time Control Engineer — Equity + Lausanne

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 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.