Senior Software Engineer (Dev Platform)

The role

You will build and scale software infrastructure to enable stellarator design exploration. You will develop core data, compute, and analysis tooling and manage cloud infrastructure and high-performance computing clusters.

What you will do

• Design and develop a platform for simulation, optimization and stellarator design teams
• Champion the Cloud Infrastructure Operations
• Manage general cloud infrastructure including IaaC, permission management, and cloud efficiency
• Support the democratization of cloud computing
• Unify and streamline the development experience
• Improving observability
• Manage Distributed Computing and High-Performance Computing clusters
• Raise the bar in cross-org DevOps practices and optimize DORA metrics

Required qualifications

• Strong foundation in computer science
• Understanding or hands-on experience with DevOps, CloudOps, or Platform engineering practices
• Familiar with the development and management of scalable cloud infrastructure
• Experienced in end-to-end/full-stack system design
• Proficient in Python
• Proficient in Linux

Nice to have

• Scalable cloud infrastructure as used in science, ML or other data processing-heavy use cases
• System design within an environment supporting physics, engineering, or AI teams

About the company

Proxima Fusion is a fusion company and the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP). They are developing hardware and infrastructure to deliver a commercial stellarator fusion power plant.