Plasma Spectroscopy Diagnostician

Location: On-site in Munich or Oxford

Company

Develops hardware and infrastructure for commercial stellarator fusion power plants, combining stellarator optimization, advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets.

What you will do

• Lead the design and build of spectroscopic diagnostics for the Alpha stellarator.
• Develop specifications for visible, X-ray, vacuum ultraviolet, and extreme ultraviolet spectroscopic systems.
• Define diagnostic performance requirements for measuring ion temperature, impurity concentration, and plasma flow.
• Coordinate with engineering, software, fusion science, and fusion engineering specialists to establish robust implementations.
• Plan and manage the full lifecycle from design, procurement, and construction through testing, installation, commissioning, calibration, operation, and maintenance.
• Oversee, delegate, or subcontract work packages to complete the diagnostic systems.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in physics, engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience using high-resolution spectrometers.
• Experience with at least one spectroscopic diagnostic instrument on a large infrastructure machine such as an accelerator, telescope, laser, or fusion device.
• Strong knowledge of geometric optics and light propagation in optical systems.
• Working knowledge of Python software development and modern toolchains including uv and git.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and building spectroscopic systems for plasma devices.
• Experience using optical design software for ray tracing.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on the development of commercial stellarator fusion technology and clean energy infrastructure.
• Collaborate across plasma physics, magnets, cryogenics, manufacturing, controls, software, and engineering disciplines.
• Join a diverse, international team focused on practical engineering and fast execution.
• The role is classified at L2/L3 in the internal framework.

Hiring process

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