Agent Platform Engineer
Posted 24 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Senior Agent Platform Engineer”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Level
- L3
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
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
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You will get to work on some of the most complex tech challenges to bring abundant, safe, clean energy to the world.
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You'll get to join and learn from an exceptional selection of accomplished and driven individuals.
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Do your life’s best work and enjoy the journey.
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Get to show that big things are possible in Europe when you assemble the best talent.
YOUR IMPACT
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Technical owner of Proxima’s AI agent platform, turning autonomous agents into reliable everyday colleagues for physicists and engineers.
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Own the platform architecture, technical delivery, and day-to-day operation.
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Scale the platform from an early product into reliable, governed infrastructure used across the company.
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Enable agents to work across knowledge bases, write code, run simulations, and support engineering workflows.
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Work within the Enterprise AI Team Lead’s overall vision while owning how that vision is technically implemented.
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Use strong technical judgment to influence and shape the platform roadmap.
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Identify and propose new platform features based on hands-on experience and feedback from internal users.
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Build a platform that engineers and scientists can trust for real, production-level work.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
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Own the design, delivery, and operation of our agent platform: the runtime and its primitives: durable sessions, sandboxed execution environments, long-running task execution, memory, and tool integration