Hiring pulse · domain briefing
Fusion Plasma, magnets, materials, controls, and the industrial systems required to put net power on the grid.
Plasma, magnets, materials, controls, and the industrial systems required to put net power on the grid. These are the companies and roles driving fusion forward in Europe right now.
Figure · Fusion vs all tracked domains
0 147 Nov 03 Dec 29 Feb 23 Apr 20 Jun 08 Fusion 42 Domain briefing · Fusion Active roles 42 · +740% / 26 wk
New this week 6
Median days open 34 (market: 41)
Median est. comp (Senior, Eng) EUR 118k
Top hiring company Proxima Fusion · 22 roles ▲
Rarest open role type Plasma control · 4 in Europe
Track mix — research → engineering shift = lab-to-product transition
Salary bands · Fusion · est. EUR From market estimates across 42 roles. Estimated bands — not employer-posted.
Signals · Fusion Jun 10 Proxima Fusion opened 6 new roles this week (+18%) — largest weekly add in fusion since tracking began
Jun 01 Fusion track mix shifted : engineering roles now 54% (was 41% in Jan) — lab-to-product signal
Jun 09 First Staff-level quantum role in Munich since Nov 2025 (QC Design)
Jun 08 ICEYE crossed 100 open roles — 21% of all tracked European deep-tech hiring
Jun 06 Median AI comp estimate +9% this quarter; 92nd-percentile roles now above EUR 180k
Jun 05 Black Semiconductor roles 12 → 31 in 90 days — steepest growth in the directory
Open roles · 42 Role list renders here — sample data provides the overview stats above.