Embedded Control Engineer

The role

You will develop the embedded control platform by translating functional and control requirements into hardware and software architectures. You will work on selecting microcontrollers, DSP, or FPGA technologies and developing real-time software.

What you will do

• Define embedded controller architectures for power electronic converters and select suitable microcontrollers, DSP, FPGA.
• Translate power electronics and control requirements into efficient, deterministic, and robust real-time software implementations.
• Develop, test, debug, and validate embedded software on target hardware.
• Validate the design from individual software blocks through complete controller implementations and automated testing environments.
• Explore new controller technologies, embedded architectures, and software implementation concepts.

Required qualifications

• University (Higher education) degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of embedded architectures and practical considerations for selecting controllers for demanding real-time applications.
• Expert in embedded software development for real-time applications, spanning FPGA programming, systems programming, hardware interfaces and communication protocols.
• Experienced in monitoring and debugging software directly on target hardware.

Nice to have

• Experience with model-based development
• Hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Automated testing
• Safety-critical software development

Before you apply

• Recruiter Interview (30-60 min)
• Technical Screening (30 min)
• Technical Panel (3x60 min)

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player, as well as the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.