Technician (Fusion Manufacturing)

Location: Munich, Germany; on-site

Company

hirify.global is a fusion company developing stellarator technology, advanced magnets, and the infrastructure for a commercial fusion power plant.

What you will do

• Maintain, troubleshoot, repair, and safely return magnet-factory machinery to service.
• Perform preventive maintenance, inspections, repairs, assembly, alignment, installation, and commissioning of equipment.
• Diagnose breakdowns, intermittent faults, and undocumented failures across mechanical, electromechanical, pneumatic, motion, vacuum, and thermal systems.
• Support factory and site acceptance testing, installation checks, and the commissioning of new cells and production lines.
• Work with engineering and manufacturing teams to distinguish machine faults from setup, material, process, or measurement issues.
• Record failures, downtime, repairs, parts, modifications, equipment restrictions, and handover information.

Requirements

• Technical apprenticeship or vocational qualification in industrial maintenance, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or mechatronics, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• Hands-on experience maintaining and repairing production or process equipment.
• Strong electrical and mechanical diagnostic skills, with practical knowledge of mechanisms, pneumatics, drives, and sensors.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, equipment manuals, and electrical or pneumatic schematics.
• Ability to use workshop tools and measuring equipment to strip, rebuild, align, and inspect machine components accurately.
• Working English is required for technical instructions, work records, and communication with technicians, engineers, and suppliers.

Nice to have

• Experience with reel-to-reel machinery, tension control, precision motion, or cable and conductor handling.
• Experience with PLC systems, including Beckhoff/TwinCAT or comparable controls.
• Experience commissioning custom machinery, production cells, or production lines, including factory or site acceptance testing.
• Experience with hydraulic, vacuum, cryogenic, or high-voltage equipment, or an electrical qualification such as Elektrofachkraft.
• German language skills and experience with CMMS or preventive-maintenance programmes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on complex engineering challenges supporting safe, clean fusion energy.
• Collaborate across engineering, manufacturing, quality, controls, and operations.
• Join a growing team working across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford.
• Contribute hands-on to the development of Alpha, a first-of-a-kind stellarator fusion machine.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview lasting 30–60 minutes.
• Technical screening lasting 30 minutes, followed by a technical panel with three 60-minute interviews.
• CEO call lasting 30 minutes.