Embedded Control Engineer

About the role

The Embedded Control Engineer will play a key role in developing the embedded control platform for fusion power plant systems. This position involves translating functional and control requirements into robust hardware and software architectures, selecting controller technologies, and developing real-time software. The role requires close collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams to ensure the performance, reliability, and safety of the control systems.

Responsibilities

• Define embedded controller architectures for power electronic converters and select suitable microcontrollers, DSP, or FPGA.
• Translate power electronics and control requirements into efficient, deterministic, and robust real-time software implementations.
• Develop, test, debug, and validate embedded software on target hardware, from individual software blocks through complete controller implementations.
• Create automated testing environments to validate the design.
• Explore new controller technologies, embedded architectures, and software implementation concepts to improve converter performance, reliability, and maintainability.

Required skills

• Embedded software development
• Real-time applications
• FPGA programming
• Systems programming
• Hardware interfaces
• Communication protocols
• Power electronics
• Industrial automation

Nice to have

• Model-based development
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Automated testing
• Safety-critical software development

Qualifications

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer 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 for the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant, utilizing advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets.