Head of Monitoring and Control

The role

You will build and lead the team owning the architecture, design, and integration of facility-wide monitoring and control systems for Alpha. The role spans physical infrastructure, systems programming, real-time operations, and scalable facility compute.

What you will do

• Specify mission control and supervisory software
• Build the facility data center and data platform
• Drive functional safety strategy
• Lead physical facility and environmental integration
• Drive hardware R&D
• Standardize clean interface boundaries

Required qualifications

• Proven experience as a delivery or execution lead
• Experience building highly collaborative teams in a fast-moving environment
• Strong background working with safety and mission-critical software
• Experience in high-performance sectors operating under strict performance and reliability constraints
• Demonstrated track record in critical external customer, vendor, and stakeholder management
• Hands-on operational skills in mission control and real-time data analysis
• Experience integrating software with physical hardware

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player. They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.