Integrated Electronics Engineer

About the role

The Integrated Electronics Engineer will develop electronics to enable reliable and high-performance operation of fusion power plant systems. This role involves translating functional requirements into robust electronic circuits, taking designs from initial concept and simulation through PCB implementation, laboratory testing, and integration. The engineer will collaborate closely with power electronics, embedded software, mechanical, thermal, and system engineering teams.

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.

Required skills

• PCB design
• Analog electronics
• Digital electronics
• Circuit simulation
• Schematic design
• Magnet Engineering

Nice to have

• Hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Automated test equipment
• Laboratory test automation

Qualifications

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field

About the Company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. The company is developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.