Focused Energy

fusion energy

PerformanceEngineer

Darmstadt, Germany FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Performance Engineer at Focused Energy. Skills: System Performance, System Level Modeling & Analysis, Statistical Methods, Requirement Engineering, Performance Verification and Validation. Define and maintain system level performance driven baselines. Collaborate closely with customers and suppliers to derive future product requirements and translate them into system specifications”

What You'll Achieve.

generating unlimited clean energy; responsibly meet future global demand; ensure a secure and scalable future energy supply; elevate Systems Engineering by further and LDRS system performance; highly functioning usable system; end‑to‑end ownership to define, maintain, and verify performance across the full product lifecycle; stable, reliable and scalable systems

Industry & Context.

fusion energy
Problems you'll solve

solving challenges

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years developing large, integrated, complex interdisciplinary systems within complex environments (e. g. , high-power lasers, semiconductor, accelerator, nuclear, medical devices, or advanced manufacturing), Advanced Degree in Physics or Mechanical Engineering, related or equivalent education and experience, Solid expertise in system level modeling & analysis (e. g. MATLAB, python), including tolerance, sensitivity and stability analysis using statistical methods (e. g. Monte-Carlo)

Nice to Have

Experience with CAD literacy, FEM-tools (e. g. ANSYS) and optical simulation (e. g. Zemax) is highly beneficial for interpreting layout-driven performance impacts, Experience with system performance integration and scalability of large engineering systems is highly beneficial, German proficiency is a plus

What You'll Do.

Define and maintain system level performance driven baselines

Collaborate closely with customers and suppliers to derive future product requirements and translate them into system specifications

Develop and apply system-level models to analyze sensitivities

Use Statistical methods to quantify performance margins

Feed derived constraints and tradeoffs back into performance

and integration baselines

Maintain the necessary performance budgets on system level and break down requirements into component specifications

Translate performance-driven requirements into specifications for realizable

verifiable and serializable system architectures

Drive milestones and design reviews focused on performance maturity

Contribute to engineering frameworks

documentation standards

and cross-functional processes

Define performance verification and validation strategy

Establish traceability from system performance objectives through subsystem requirements to verification plans and test results

Provide integration leadership by ensuring alignment across disciplines

Support the transfer of experimental concepts into stable

reliable and scalable systems

Govern configuration control and evaluate change impacts on performance-related system aspects

Support the implementation of Systems Engineering and Performance methodologies across the organization

Drive clear and transparent decision-making

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate closely with customers and suppliers; Provide integration leadership by ensuring alignment across disciplines (mechanical, layout, laser, vacuum, controls, safety, operations); Contribute to engineering frameworks, documentation standards, and cross-functional processes; Collaborate Across Disciplines

Communication Scope

Fluency in English

Process & Methodology

Drive milestones and design reviews focused on performance maturity

Full Job Description

Focused Energy is a fusion energy startup with the goal of generating unlimited clean energy to responsibly meet future global demand. With the use and commercialization of laser-induced inertial fusion, a clean and highly efficient power generation technology is coming within reach, suitable to ensure a secure and scalable future energy supply. We are seeking a Performance Engineer to help elevate Systems Engineering by further and LDRS system performance here at Focused energy. This role focuses on the system level, combining customer and internal requirements into a highly functioning usable system. This individual will provide end‑to‑end ownership to define, maintain, and verify performance across the full product lifecycle. What you'll do: Own System Performance Across Product LifeCycle: - Define and maintain system level performance driven baselines (including neutron and x-ray output power, reproducibility, beam pointing and positioning, tolerances, stability, sensitivities). - Collaborate closely with customers and suppliers to derive future product requirements and translate them into system specifications. Assess System Stability and Sensitivities: - Develop and apply system-level models to analyze sensitivities to mechanical tolerances, thermal effects, and environmental and seismic influences. - Use Statistical methods (e.g. MonteCarlo) to quantify performance margins - Feed derived constraints and tradeoffs back into performance, layout, and integration baselines. - Maintain the necessary performance budgets on system level and break down requirements into component specifications. Lead Performance Driven Requirement Engineering in System Engineering: - Translate performance-driven requirements into specifications for realizable, verifiable and serializable system architectures. - Drive milestones and design reviews focused on performance maturity. - Contribute to engineering frameworks, documentation standards, and cross-functional processes. Drive Per

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