Power Electronics Engineer

About the role

Proxima Fusion is developing the hardware and infrastructure for the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. As a Power Electronics Engineer, you will translate functional requirements into robust power-stage solutions, focusing on high power density, efficiency, and reliability. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to design, simulate, and validate advanced power conversion technologies.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and develop power conversion topologies considering efficiency, electrical stresses, and thermal behavior.
• Design and develop magnetic components including inductors, transformers, and chokes.
• Develop analytical and simulation models to evaluate converter behavior and performance.
• Build prototypes and perform laboratory testing, characterization, and validation of power electronic circuits.
• Analyse test results to identify design improvements and validate converter performance.

Required skills

• Power Electronics
• Power conversion topologies
• Power semiconductors
• Magnetic components
• Passive components
• Laboratory testing
• Circuit validation

Nice to have

• PLECS
• SiC semiconductors
• GaN semiconductors
• High-frequency magnetics

Qualifications

• University degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, 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. Backed by over €650M, the company is developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.