Burning Plasma Physicist (Stellarator Fusion)

Location: Munich, on-site

Company

hirify.global is a European fusion company developing stellarator-based hardware and infrastructure for a commercial fusion power plant.

What you will do

• Lead the development, validation, and application of energetic-particle transport workflows for reactor-scale stellarator plasmas.
• Investigate energetic-particle-driven instabilities, including Alfvén eigenmodes and EP–MHD interactions.
• Assess alpha-particle confinement and fast-ion losses under reactor-relevant operating scenarios.
• Work with stellarator optimization teams to incorporate energetic-particle constraints into magnetic configuration design.
• Develop reduced-order models and analysis workflows for reactor design and scenario optimization.

Requirements

• Postgraduate degree in plasma physics or a related discipline.
• Strong expertise in energetic-particle transport, burning-plasma physics, or kinetic plasma instabilities.
• Experience with EP–MHD interactions, Alfvén eigenmodes, fast-ion-driven instabilities, or related wave–particle physics.
• Experience using kinetic, orbit-following, gyrokinetic, or hybrid MHD simulation tools.
• Proficiency in scientific programming languages such as Python, Julia, C++, and/or Fortran.
• Ability to collaborate across physics and engineering disciplines on open-ended reactor design challenges.

Culture & Benefits

• Interdisciplinary collaboration with theorists, computational physicists, and engineering teams.
• Work on real hardware and reactor-scale stellarator design decisions.
• Opportunity to contribute to the European initiative developing a commercial fusion power plant.
• High-performing, diverse environment focused on building practical clean-energy technology.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview lasting 30–60 minutes.
• 30-minute technical screening.
• Technical panel consisting of three 60-minute interviews.