
Proxima Fusion · Munich
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 ...
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.
capabilities into the core of Proxima’s business and technical operations.
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At Proxima Fusion, our mission is bold: making limitless clean energy a reality. To get there, we need a high-performing, diverse
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About the Role The mission of Neural Concept's Application Engineering team is to help industry leaders redefine how they design products — by bridging cutting-edge AI technology with real-world engineering challenges. We work hand-in-hand with engineering, design, and executive teams across automotive, aerospace, and energy to understand their strategic needs and deliver solutions that create measurable impact. As part of this team, you will sit at the intersection of business and technology — translating complex customer challenges into high-value AI-powered solutions, and ensuring those solutions actually land and stick within our customers' organizations. This is a role for someone who thrives equally in a boardroom conversation with a VP and in a deep-dive technical session with engineers. If you're excited about shaping how industry leaders adopt AI and about being a trusted advisor to some of the world's most sophisticated engineering teams, this is the role for you. What you will do * Understand and shape customer strategy: Engage with senior stakeholders (VP, C-level) to understand their business challenges, articulate the value of AI-assisted design, and co-design high-level solution roadmaps. * Design and deliver solutions: Translate business requirements into concrete technical approaches using NC's platform, working closely with customer engineering teams and internal developers. * Drive adoption: Guide customers through AI adoption — from proof-of-concept to full integration — ensuring teams are equipped and confident to use new workflows. * Be the bridge: Act as the link between customer needs and NC's product evolution, feeding insights back to our development team to continuously improve the platform. Who you are * You are a strong communicator and trusted advisor — you can engage confidently with senior stakeholders (VP, C-level), build relationships quickly, and drive alignment around complex, ambiguous problems * You have experience designing solutions end-to-end: from understanding a business need to translating it into a concrete technical approach * You are comfortable working in a customer-facing environment, navigating both executive conversations and deep technical sessions with engineering teams * You hold a Master's or PhD degree in Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field — or have equivalent experience in an industrial or consultancy setting * You have a solid understanding of engineering simulation concepts (CAD/CAE, CFD, FEM, or similar) — whether from an academic or industry background * You have working knowledge of machine learning and how it applies to engineering problems; hands-on experience with Python and ML/deep learning frameworks is a strong plus * You are intellectually curious and eager to tackle real-world engineering challenges through AI and automation * You are fluent in English and German (preferably native) We value different balances of business and technical skills. Whether your strength is in solution design and stakeholder management, or in hands-on implementation, we want to hear from you. What You Get * Work with a world-class technology team – our engineers are top-notch, and we always aim for excellence. * Benefit from a competitive salary and rewarding opportunities as we continue to scale. * Thrive in a collaborative, multicultural environment where your work is visible and recognized. * Develop professionally alongside talented colleagues who share knowledge freely and support one another. * Make a global impact by helping customers shift to AI-assisted design, making innovation faster, smarter, and more sustainable. * Balance life and work with a hybrid model and flexible hours—we care about results, not rigid schedules. WE'RE PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU CAN THRIVE.
SOLUTION ENGINEER About Neural Concept Engineering is at an inflection point. The teams defining the next generation of aircraft, electric vehicles, and consumer products are not just designing faster. They are designing fundamentally differently, with AI embedded at the core of their workflows. Neural Concept builds the Engineering AI platform that makes this possible. We help the world's leading engineering teams accelerate development, improve product outcomes, and scale engineering capacity, turning months of simulation into days and engineering intuition into data-driven insight. We work with elite engineering teams in Automotive, Aerospace, High-Tech and Electronics, and advanced manufacturing, where the stakes are high, the complexity is rising, and the pressure to innovate has never been greater. We are changing how engineers work. Come build that future with us. About the Role As a Solution Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering credibility and strategic influence. You are the person in the room who can connect a VP's business challenge to a concrete, well-scoped AI solution, and who knows Neural Concept's platform and roadmap well enough to make that connection land with confidence. This is not a purely technical role, and it is not a pure sales role. You are a trusted advisor: someone who earns credibility through engineering background and product depth, and who builds long-term account relationships by consistently framing the right problems and the right solutions at the right moment. You drive the full pre-sales motion, from discovery to demo to signed Statement of Work, and you remain the account's technical compass through the client lifecycle, identifying and shaping expansion opportunities. What you will do * Position NC as a long-term strategic partner and trusted engineering advisor across engineering teams, managers, and VPs * Lead structured discovery sessions to identify where NC creates the most impact, framing use cases that are technically feasible and commercially grounded * Define the AI strategy and technical roadmap for each account, translating NC's capabilities and product direction into a multi-horizon vision * Create and deliver compelling, client-tailored demos and presentations grounded in the client's engineering workflows, technically credible and aligned with the vision * Create and co-own the Statement of Work, with deep understanding of the technical building blocks and how these transform the client's existing workflows * Prepare and run Steering Committees, connecting engineering challenges to strategic outcomes * Drive user adoption and engagement across technical users, managers, and designers, ensuring NC is embedded in daily workflows and engineering champions emerge * Identify upsell and expansion opportunities from account knowledge and commercial signals, and shape them into well-scoped proposals * Collaborate with the Sales team to advance and close deals, with the Forward Deployed Engineering team to ensure smooth pre-sales to delivery transitions, and surface client insights to Product and R&D to inform roadmap priorities Who you are * You hold an engineering degree (mechanical, aerospace, automotive, industrial, or similar) and have a solid understanding of CAD and CAE workflows, including where bottlenecks lie and what it takes to transform those workflows with AI * You are naturally curious and people-driven. You earn trust through genuine interest in client challenges and make engineers and executives feel understood * You are proactive and commercially driven. You move accounts forward without being asked, spot opportunities early, and bring structure to ambiguous situations * You are a confident challenger. You ask uncomfortable questions, reframe assumptions, and guide clients toward better outcomes even when it requires pushing back * You are an outstanding communicator: you own executive conversations, drive narrative with clarity, and connect engineering problems to strategic outcomes * You understand AI and machine learning applied to engineering at a conceptual level, and are comfortable creating demos and prototypes using AI-assisted tools with working knowledge of Python and modern development practices * You have experience in a client-facing role: pre-sales, solutions consulting, technical account management, or engineering consulting * Professional fluency in German and English. What Will Set You Apart Candidates who bring the following will be able to take on a wider scope and go deeper with the most technically complex accounts: * You have deep, hands-on simulation experience: full pipelines from CAD to post-processing, solver experience, and workflow automation * You are a strong programmer: you write clean Python, build data pipelines, and are comfortable in ML/DL frameworks including model training, evaluation, and deployment * You can go deep in technical discovery: dive into customer toolchains, data environments, and simulation setups to assess feasibility at the level a simulation engineer would respect * You can build end-to-end engineering workflow demos from scratch, rapidly prototyping the full arc from design generation and simulation to data pipelines, model training, and application deployment using agentic development tools Nice-to-Have * Strategic or technical consulting background, executing digital transformations * Previous experience working in engineering software companies or using engineering software tools (e.g., Ansys, Altair, Siemens, Dassault Systèmes, or Autodesk) * Background in ML/DL research or development in an engineering context * Experience automating CAE workflows (scripting, batch processing, surrogate model pipelines) What You Get * Work with a world-class technology team – our engineers are top-notch, and we always aim for excellence. * Benefit from a competitive salary and rewarding opportunities as we continue to scale. * Thrive in a collaborative, multicultural environment where your work is visible and recognized. * Develop professionally alongside talented colleagues who share knowledge freely and support one another. * Make a global impact by helping customers shift to AI-assisted design, making innovation faster, smarter, and more sustainable. * Balance life and work with a hybrid model and flexible hours—we care about results, not rigid schedules. WE'RE PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO BUILDING A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT WHERE YOU CAN THRIVE.
CUSTOMER IMPACT ENGINEER (F/M/D) ABOUT US Manex AI is on a mission to enable autonomy for the world’s leading organizations and is currently building autonomous factories. After raising our Seed Round from Lightspeed and BlueYard and winning leading enterprise manufacturing customers, we are now focused on scaling operations across all departments. With our world-class team, we are looking for the key individuals who will help take us to the next level and build a truly outstanding organization. YOUR ROLE As a Customer Impact Engineer, you’ll take ownership of complex customer projects and make sure our platform delivers real results in our customer organizations. You combine excellent project management with a deep understanding of production and data to create measurable impact. Industry leaders such as BMW, Audi, BSH, Stellantis, Liebherr, Still, TDK Electronics, and Henkel already rely on our Kosmos. You will work with majors client since Day 1, take decisions that shape the product and company, and built up autonomous manufacturing operations with us. This is a high-impact, full-time position based in Munich within an exceptional team. It requires a high-level of personal responsibility, strategic and analytical mindset, strong drive, high motivation, and a shared ambition to win together. YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES * You will get to build a company together within an exceptional team, working on technology that is shaping what's possible today while working on the biggest problems of our time * You will solve customer problems, by understanding manufacturing operations and translate them into scalable AI solutions * Own project management and coordination of customer integrations across industries, working directly with major clients from Day 1 * You will act on behalf of the entire company and build up strategic collaboration with stakeholders in large industrial organizations, from shop floor to C-level YOUR PROFILE * Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Data Science, Management, or similar * 3+ years of professional experience in automotive, tech, manufacturing, or consulting * Solid knowledge of data science and AI in industrial contexts * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills * Business-fluent in German and English * Based in Munich or willing to relocate, ready to go all-in with us WHAT WE OFFER * Unique opportunity to become part of a top-tier team with hands-on responsibility and learn how to build lasting collaborations with leading customers * Mentorship & fast learning curve in a high-impact AI-Startup environment, incl. flat hierarchy, direct access to founders, and fast decisions * Top-of-market compensation with equity package * Develop a best-in-class network (funding, industry, and talent) in Europe and the US * A fast-paced environment backed by the world's best investors with the world's leading organizations as customers Are you willing to start contributing to European autonomy at scale? Apply now!