Microwave Design Engineer

Location

Munich

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Stellarator Engineering

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.

WHY JOIN PROXIMA FUSION

• Work on a civilisation-scale problem: Clean, baseload fusion energy is one of the few genuinely world-changing challenges, and every hire in Finance, People, or Legal directly accelerates the path to a working stellarator.

• Grow as fast as the company does: 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.

• Tackle problems that don't exist elsewhere: 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.

YOUR IMPACT

As a microwave design engineer, you will help build the basis for the millimeter wave hardware acting as the spark plug that initiates a fusion plasma and raises its temperature to greater than 100 million degrees. You’ll join the Alpha Heating System team ready to drive the integrated RF and thermo-mechanical design of high-power components, and help build and test these components in the lab before installing them at scale on our net scientific gain Alpha stellarator.