Head of Monitoring and Control

About the role

The Head of Monitoring and Control will lead the architecture, design, and integration of facility-wide monitoring and control systems for the Alpha stellarator. This role involves moving away from legacy industrial control paradigms toward a fully integrated control and observability platform. The successful candidate will oversee mission control software, facility data platforms, and functional safety strategies while managing physical infrastructure integration.

Responsibilities

• Specify mission control and supervisory software including telemetry pipelines and live monitoring stacks.
• Design, deploy, and scale facility compute hardware and software data platforms for high-speed ingestion and streaming.
• Define the device-wide technical strategy for functional safety in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Partner with facility teams to ensure infrastructure supports I&C architecture under harsh radiation and magnetic field constraints.
• Identify R&D opportunities for control and automation hardware and co-design with external vendors.
• Establish hardware and software interface standards across subsystems.

Required skills

• Mission-critical software
• Safety-critical software
• Real-time data analysis
• Systems programming
• Hardware-software integration
• Stakeholder management

Nice to have

• Robotics
• Autonomous vehicles
• Aerospace avionics
• AI

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.