Jobs at Focused Energy (focused-energy.co)

Coordinates the full lifecycle of German and EU public funding projects, including opportunity assessment, applications, payment requests, financial reporting, compliance, audit-ready documentation, and close-out. Consolidates inputs from technical, finance, and external partners; tracks budgets, deadlines, eligibility, and risks; and improves workflows, templates, data quality, and AI-enabled processes. The role requires strong public funding administration experience, financial accuracy, cross-functional coordination, and fluent German and English.

Design, deploy, and integrate machine learning models into digital twins and multiphysics simulation environments for laser-driven fusion systems. Develop physics-informed models, surrogate models, ML pipelines, anomaly detection, Bayesian optimization, and reinforcement-learning solutions. Work with HPC simulations, sensor data, uncertainty quantification, and autonomous system optimization while collaborating with physicists, optical engineers, and systems engineers.

Design, deploy, and integrate machine learning models into digital-twin and multiphysics simulation environments for laser-driven fusion systems. Build physics-informed models, surrogate and reduced-order models, ML pipelines, anomaly detection, uncertainty quantification, Bayesian optimization, and reinforcement-learning workflows. Collaborate with physicists and engineers to accelerate simulations, optimize system performance, support predictive diagnostics, and establish reproducible engineering practices.

Leads development of laser front-end technology for inertial confinement fusion, converting existing R&D and hardware into an industrially deliverable system. Owns the technology roadmap, leads technical teams, manages suppliers and manufacturing partners, establishes requirements and documentation, conducts design reviews, plans hardware delivery, and manages technical and delivery risks. The role requires strategic decision-making, technical leadership, supplier management, and enough laser expertise to evaluate specialist input.

Own technical accounting, financial close, consolidation, reconciliations, intercompany accounting, and reporting across German and US entities. Apply IFRS, US GAAP, and German GAAP; strengthen accounting policies, controls, documentation, and audit readiness; improve finance-system data flows across NetSuite, NetAssets, Moss, and Ramp; and implement automation. Partner with stakeholders to resolve accounting issues, communicate decisions, and provide reliable financial insight in a growing international startup.

Lead the laser amplification function for a laser-driven nuclear fusion system. Manage and develop technical teams, make engineering decisions, own the subsystem roadmap, guide complex projects, and coordinate amplification architecture, requirements, interfaces, and integration with the wider laser system. The role requires strong technical leadership, engineering judgment, stakeholder management, and laser knowledge, with direct amplifier development experience preferred.

Lead the architecture, design, integration, testing, commissioning, and continuous improvement of complex control systems across experimental and production facilities. Guide PLC, FPGA, embedded, SCADA, HMI, and data-system decisions; establish engineering standards, requirements, interfaces, validation strategies, and diagnostic approaches. Coordinate hardware and software teams, suppliers, and integrators while mentoring engineers and leading complex debugging and root-cause investigations.

Provides embedded engineering safety support for laser, cryogenic, electrical, mechanical, and control systems at the Austin facility. Leads hazard analyses, risk assessments, design-for-safety reviews, commissioning support, operational readiness activities, incident investigations, corrective actions, technical documentation, and safety training. Partners with engineering, operations, facilities, and central safety teams to ensure hazards are identified and mitigated throughout system design, installation, validation, and operation.

Perform hardware integration, qualification testing, optical and laser alignment, test-rig preparation, troubleshooting, upgrades, and campaign support for laser-driven fusion experiments. Document test results and issues, translate procedures into executable sequences, maintain lab configurations, and follow rigorous safety practices while collaborating with scientists and senior engineers.

Own the core software architecture for a laser-driven fusion power plant. Design and implement C++ and Python software integrating controls, hardware interfaces, calibration systems, data infrastructure, storage, and operator HMIs. Establish standards for testing, observability, reliability, security, fault tolerance, documentation, and releases. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, resolve architectural trade-offs, and collaborate across software, hardware, science, and operations teams.

Own the core software architecture for a laser-driven fusion power plant. Design and implement software in C++ and Python, integrate hardware and device interfaces, build automated calibration workflows, manage data infrastructure, and develop operator HMIs. Establish standards for testing, observability, reliability, security, documentation, and fault tolerance. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, and coordinate across software, hardware, science, and operations teams.

Design, build, test, and deploy production software for automated hardware calibration, image processing, machine data handling, storage, supervisory control, and HMI capabilities. Collaborate with software, controls, systems, and other engineers to define interfaces, create test plans, document decisions, and address failure modes. Own moderately complex features through deployment while supporting reliable workflows for experimental and scientific equipment.

Own the core software architecture for a laser-driven fusion power plant. Design and implement C++ and Python software integrating controls, hardware interfaces, calibration, diagnostics, data infrastructure, storage, and operator HMIs. Establish standards for testing, observability, reliability, security, documentation, and fault tolerance. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, coordinate across software, hardware, science, and operations teams, and develop reliable automated calibration workflows.

Build and lead Focused Energy’s Learning and Development function from the ground up. Responsibilities include manager and leadership development, skills frameworks, learning paths, succession planning, onboarding capability programs, learning infrastructure, knowledge management, and evaluating program effectiveness. The role partners with People teams, functional leaders, executives, and technical subject matter experts to translate complex scientific and technical knowledge into practical learning experiences.

Provides technical leadership and hands-on software development for laser systems. Defines architecture and technology choices for a greenfield platform; builds calibration tools, human-machine interfaces, dashboards, device integrations, data-acquisition and processing pipelines, and storage solutions. Collaborates with physicists, engineers, and integration partners, while ensuring reliability, testing, documentation, maintainability, and safe operation. Mentors engineers and contributes to technical design and engineering practices.

Performs structural, thermal, dynamic, fluid-system, and vibration analyses for complex mechanical systems. Develops CAD models, validates simulations, identifies design risks, recommends mitigations, prepares verification evidence and reports, and supports multidisciplinary design reviews. The role contributes to vacuum chambers, laser integration, diagnostic structures, and facility infrastructure while ensuring designs are safe, manufacturable, and ready for integration.

Lead engineering-aligned supply chain for complex, low-volume systems by partnering with mechanical, electrical, and controls teams. Identify and qualify suppliers, manage technical procurement (RFQs, bid evaluations), define make-vs-buy and manufacturing routes, embed DfM, and drive on-time delivery with quality, traceability, and risk mitigation across programs.

Lead and scale Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding for a deep-tech fusion company. Build TA operating model, hiring standards, capacity planning, ATS ownership, data-driven reporting, hiring manager enablement, and a high-performing recruiting team to hire specialized scientific, engineering, software, operations, and G&A talent.