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# Senior Recruiter, Manufacturing at Proxima Fusion

- **Company:** Proxima Fusion
- **Location:** Munich, Germany
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-19
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/proxima-fusion/174dc5eb-b2cd-467f-ad01-4140ea4edd37

## Job description

## WHO WE ARE

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). Backed by over €650M and powered by a growing team across Munich, Zurich, and Oxford, we are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world's first commercial stellarator fusion power plant. Our concept advances the most mature fusion technology out there, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, through two next-generation machines: Alpha and Stellaris. Our work combines stellarator optimization, advanced computation, machine learning, and high-temperature superconducting magnets to unlock higher-performance designs that were previously out of reach. Turning these designs into a functioning fusion power plant requires excellence and ownership across every discipline, from physics and engineering to software, manufacturing, law, and business functions.

## WHY JOIN PROXIMA FUSION

- Work on a civilisation-scale problem - Clean, baseload fusion energy is one of the few genuinely world-changing challenges, and every hire in Finance, People, or Legal directly accelerates the path to a working stellarator.
- Grow as fast as the company does - With headcount set to roughly 5x in a few years and major technical milestones ahead on the path to our demo machine and first power plant, your role grows under you; today's hire is tomorrow's function lead.
- Tackle problems that don't exist elsewhere - Fusion sits at a rare intersection of deep-tech R&D, industrial procurement, government relations, and venture financing, so non-tech functions face challenges no other workplace can offer.

## YOUR IMPACT

As a Senior Recruiter, you'll join Proxima Fusion's Talent Acquisition team, reporting into our Recruiter lead, at a moment when we're scaling on two fronts at once: growing our deep-tech engineering and science teams, and building out the manufacturing workforce behind Alpha and Stellaris. You'll take full ownership of complex, often niche searches, act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, and help shape how the TA team hires for manufacturing and industrial roles alongside our technical hiring. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who wants more scope and more say in how we build the function, without stepping away from the recruiting itself.

## WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Own and execute full-cycle recruitment for critical roles, with a focus on manufacturing roles.
- Lead recruitment for manufacturing and production roles as we ramp up facilities — technicians, operators, quality and manufacturing engineers — building sourcing channels beyond the usual technical hiring playbook.
- Partner closely with hiring managers, including senior technical and manufacturing leaders, to define hiring needs and build tailored sourcing strategies that go well beyond LinkedIn.
- Drive top-of-funnel strategy: proactively source and engage exceptional passive talent, in German and English, via recruitment events, conferences, and talent communities across the DACH region and beyond.
- Act as a senior voice within the TA team: mentor junior recruiters, share sourcing craft, and help set the bar for what good looks like.
- Champion an outstanding candidate experience at every touchpoint, adapting your approach for very different audiences — from a senior scientist to a shop-floor hire.
- Contribute to TA projects beyond your own reqs: improving workflows and tooling, building out our German-market employer brand, or delivering interview training.
- Help the Head of Talent Acquisition build a high-trust, high-rigor process that supports scaling without compromising on quality.

## WHO YOU ARE

- You are a or professional-fluency German speaker with full professional fluency in English, and you're comfortable recruiting and building relationships in both languages.
- You bring several years of hands-on, full-cycle recruitment experience in a startup or scale-up, ideally spanning both technical and manufacturing/industrial hiring.
- You have experience recruiting internationally for niche and difficult-to-fill roles, and are used to working with very selective, technically demanding hiring teams.
- You have direct exposure to hiring for manufacturing, production, or industrial operations roles, and understand how that differs from hiring engineers or scientists.
- You thrive in fast-paced, high-stakes environments and take ownership seriously.
- You're deeply motivated by quality — your standards are high and you won't settle for less.
- You have exceptional sourcing instincts and know how to identify talent others might overlook.
- You think outside the box on sourcing and attraction, using LinkedIn as one tool among many — including events, talent communities, and conferences.
- You're organized, autonomous, and eager to improve the systems and processes that let a TA team scale.
- You communicate clearly, act decisively, and work well with demanding stakeholders.
- You're genuinely excited to help build something audacious from the ground up, and to help shape a growing TA team along the way.

## INTERVIEW PROCESS

- Recruiter Interview (30–45 min)
- Panel Interviews (3 rounds, 60 min each)

This role sits at L3 of our framework; please inquire during the recruitment process for further information.

At Proxima Fusion, our mission is bold: making limitless clean energy a reality. To get there, we need a high-performing, diverse team that brings different perspectives, challenges assumptions, and builds together with purpose. We know that diversity of thought and experience leads to better ideas, stronger execution, and a more resilient team. We don't look at how you identify, what you look like, who you choose to worship, or what ethnicity you are. We care about what you can bring to the table.

## About Proxima Fusion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: A European fusion energy company building quasi-isodynamic stellarator power plants to deliver clean, safe, and abundant energy.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – €130M raised in June 2025 plus €15M extension in September 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Munich, Germany (additional offices in Zürich, Switzerland and Oxford, United Kingdom)
- **Founded**: April 2023
- **Founders**: Francesco Sciortino, Lucio Milanese, Jorrit Lion, Jonathan Schilling, Martin Kubie

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Fusion energy (energy production)
- **Target customers**: Energy companies, grid operators, and technology partners (B2B / Enterprise)
- **Mission**: “Enabling human ambitions in a future with fusion energy” – providing abundant, clean, and safe energy for all.

## Products & Services
- **Alpha Demonstration Stellarator**: A prototype stellarator designed to demonstrate net energy gain in steady-state, planned for first plasma around 2031.
- **Stellaris Fusion Power Plant Concept**: A peer-reviewed, first-of-its-kind design for a commercial stellarator fusion power plant, targeting grid deployment in the late 2030s.
- **Stellarator Model Coil (SMC)**: A demonstration high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet completed to validate coil technology for Alpha and Stellaris.
- **Core Technology**: Quasi-isodynamic (QI) stellarator design combined with computational optimization, HTS magnets, and rapid prototyping – all leveraged from the record-breaking Wendelstein 7-X experiment.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding ~€200M (≈$230M) in public and private capital, including pre-seed (€7.5M), seed (€20M), Series A (€130M + €15M extension), and additional grants from the European Innovation Council and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Plural Platform, UVC Partners, redalpine, Bayern Kapital, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Max Planck Foundation, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Visionaries Club, Wilbe. Strategic partners include the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI).
- **Growth Signals**: Team grown from founding to 100+ world-class scientists, engineers, and operators; completion of the Stellarator Model Coil; publication of the Stellaris power plant concept; convening an Industrial Development Board to scale European fusion supply chains; appointment of CFO Sergei Galperin (June 2026); integration of AI-driven design methods.

## Competitive Advantages
- **QI Stellarator approach**: Toroidal currents cancel to zero, enabling inherently stable, continuous operation without the plasma disruptions that challenge tokamaks.
- **Direct lineage from W7-X**: As the first spin-out from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, the team builds on decades of stellarator research and the world’s most advanced stellarator experiment.
- **Simulation-first + rapid prototyping**: Combines cutting-edge computational design with HTS magnet technology to accelerate development timelines.
- **Top-tier talent pool**: Team members from Max Planck IPP, MIT, SpaceX, Tesla, McLaren, Google X, EPFL, Stanford, Cambridge, and other leading institutions.
- **Deep European ecosystem ties**: Close collaboration with public research institutes, industrial partners, and government funders.

## Strategic Focus
- **Near-term (2026–2031)**: Complete the design and construction of the Alpha demonstration stellarator, demonstrate net energy in steady-state, and advance HTS magnet technology through continued R&D.
- **Mid-term (2030s)**: Scale from Alpha to the Stellaris fusion power plant, targeting first electricity to the grid in the late 2030s.
- **Long-term**: Establish a new clean energy infrastructure by industrializing stellarator power plants and securing supply chains across Europe.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission with impact**: Tackle one of humanity’s greatest challenges – unlimited, clean, and affordable energy.
- **High-performance culture**: Described as a “professional sports team” where success depends on placing the right person in the right role with real ownership from day one.
- **Collaborative environment**: Work alongside exceptional peers from top tech, science, and engineering organizations; take on meaningful responsibility early.
- **Locations**: Offices in Munich (HQ), Zürich (PSI campus), and Oxford (Culham Campus) – likely on-site given the hands-on nature of fusion R&D.
- **Diverse disciplines**: Opportunities for engineers, scientists, operators, and business roles in a fast-growing deep-tech startup.

## Sources
1. [proximafusion.com](https://www.proximafusion.com/)
2. [proximafusion.com/about](https://www.proximafusion.com/about)
3. [proximafusion.com/careers](https://www.proximafusion.com/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/proxima-fusion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/proxima-fusion)
5. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Fusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Fusion)

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