Integrated Electronics Engineer
Job description
About the Position
Integrated Electronics Engineer
Location: Zurich
Department: Magnet Engineering
Employment Type: Full time
Workplace Type: On-site
About the Company
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.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop PCB-based electronic circuits for converters, including gate drivers, auxiliary power supplies, sensing, signal conditioning, protection, and DC-link balancing circuits.
- Define circuit architectures, select components, perform simulations, and develop schematics and PCB designs according to functional, electrical, thermal, and reliability requirements.
- Explore novel circuit topologies, component technologies, and integration concepts to improve converter performance, efficiency, reliability, compactness, and functionality.
- Build prototypes and perform laboratory testing, characterization, verification, troubleshooting, and validation of electronic circuits and PCB.
Requirements
- University (Higher education) degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
- Passion for PCB design from concept through simulation, prototyping to production qualification.
- Experience owning electronic system design end-to-end through multiple rapid iteration cycles.
- Expertise in analog and digital electronics, including sensing, signal conditioning, power supplies, isolation, gate drivers, and optical interface circuits.
Nice to Have
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, automated test equipment, or laboratory test automation.
We Offer
- Opportunity to play a defining role in designing and integrating the systems that will power the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion plant.
- Work on some of the most complex engineering challenges in fusion.
- Join a highly ambitious, multidisciplinary team that combines cutting-edge simulation with hands-on engineering.
About the Company
At Proxima Fusion, our mission is bold: making limitless clean energy a reality. To get there, we need a high-performing, diverse team that brings different perspectives, challenges assumptions, and builds together with purpose. We know that diversity of thought and experience leads to better ideas, stronger execution, and a more resilient team. We don’t look at how you identify, what you look like, who you choose to worship or what ethnicity you are. We care about what you can bring to the table.
Proxima Fusion GmbH, Flößergasse 2, 81369 München, Deutschland
Eingetragen beim Amtsgericht München unter HRB 283423, Geschäftsführer Dr. Francesco Sciortino, Dr. Lucio Milanese
Registered at the District Court of Munich under HRB 283423, Managing Directors Dr. Francesco Sciortino, Dr. Lucio Milanese
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