Stellarator Integration Engineer

Meyandy LLC; München; Hybrid; EUR 90.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Proxima Fusion GmbH à Munich recherche un Stellarator Integration Engineer pour diriger l’intégration des systèmes d’un premier réacteur de fusion. Vous définirez les interfaces, critères de conception, charges et incertitudes afin de permettre des itérations rapides.

Le candidat idéal possède un doctorat ou un master en physique ou en ingénierie et une expérience dans des domaines d’intégration complexes (aérospatiale, sport automobile).

Qualifikationen

• Un doctorat ou master en physique ou ingénierie, avec une expérience dans des environnements d’intégration complexes.
• Capacité à naviguer entre différentes disciplines et domaines de physique (plasma, cryogénie, structure).
• Bonne aptitude à la communication et à la consolidation du consensus technique.

Aufgaben

• Définir les interfaces, critères de conception, cas de charge et incertitudes.
• Comprendre les interactions des systèmes pour éviter des effets non souhaités.
• Résoudre les défis d’intégration et suivre les risques critiques.
• Saisir les opportunités de simplification et optimiser l’architecture du Stellarator Alpha.

Kenntnisse

Engineering judgment

System design

Cross-disciplinary work

Clear communication

Ausbildung

PhD en physique ou ingénierie

Master en physique ou ingénierie

Jobbeschreibung

## Description du poste**WHO WE ARE**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.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.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.**BY JOINING OUR TEAM YOU’LL GET TO*** **Shape the architecture of a fusion power plant** – Own system-level decisions that determine how a first-of-a-kind energy technology is designed, integrated, and ultimately deployed at scale.* **Solve some of the most complex engineering challenges** – 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.* **Design real hardware with a pragmatic, fast-moving team from all over the world** – Combine advanced simulation and systems thinking with a strong execution mindset, focusing on practical engineering solutions that accelerate the path to commercial fusion energy.**YOUR IMPACT**Alpha will be the first stellarator to demonstrate net energy. Achieving this milestone requires building a deeply coupled machine, where plasma, magnets, structures, cryogenics, and heating work at the edge of each discipline’s capability. As part of the integrated stellarator design team you will work in between plasma physics and technology and make sure that all stellarator systems are designed according to clear and optimal design criteria. You will ensure that modelling uncertainties are quantified and used appropriately. You will drive projects where overarching design solutions with multi-system trades need to be found.**WHAT YOU WILL DO*** **Ensure interfaces, design criteria, load cases and uncertainties are correctly defined:** so that engineering design can iterate quickly and with clear assumptions.* **Understand systems interactions:** in order to minimize unintended consequences of the main architectural decisions.* **Solve integration challenges:** Identify, track, and solvethe hardest integration challenges and risks of a machine not achieving its mission requirements.* **Harness simplification opportunities:** Identify, track, and address the most promising opportunities that affect the Alpha architecture.**WHO YOU ARE*** **You've earned your engineering judgment on complex machines.** You hold a PhD or Master's in physics, engineering, or an adjacent field, and you have years of experience in industries where integration challenges are at the heart of the design, such as aerospace or Formula 1.* **You are not afraid of different physics domains.** You feel comfortable navigating the different physics regimes of a Stellarator - from waves propagating in a plasma to cryogenic properties of steel.* **You reach for whatever tool fits.** Being a pen-and-paper calculation, a simulator you coded last night, or a commercial multiphysics package, the method serves the question, never the reverse.* **You build consensus.** You are a low-ego high-clarity communicator who works effectively with multiple technical leads, to bring integration challenges and system-level tradeoffs to a clear decision.* **Stellarator Integration Engineer** — Proxima Fusion GmbH, Munich.