Job Application for Senior Systems Engineer at Caelora

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Who We Are

Caelora is a Munich-based company, founded in 2026 out of Marvel Fusion, focused on unlocking the next wave of impact from high-energy ultrashort-pulse laser systems. Led by an experienced team and supported by a growing team of laser scientists and engineers, we combine deep laser expertise with decades of industrial execution experience.

How We Work

We bring energy and enthusiasm to everything we do – and hold ourselves to the highest standards to match it. We challenge ideas openly, commit decisively, and take full ownership. Our culture is built on character, clear communication, and a shared, relentless ambition to move fast and deliver impact.

Hiring at Caelora

Building the future of high-energy laser technology requires exceptional talent. Our hiring process is designed to help you learn more about us while we get to know your background, skills, and potential. Our process:

Application Screening
Recruiter Call
Hiring Lead Interview
On-site Interviews
Offer

The impact you will make

In this role, you will have the chance to deepen your expertise by working at the forefront of high-power lasers. You will be a key person in defining, structuring, and integrating the overall system architecture of a scalable, industrial ultra-high-intensity laser system, and you will own dedicated interfaces or work packages that ensure the many mechanical, optical, electrical, and control subsystems come together as one coherent, reliable whole. Your contributions will significantly impact Caelora's mission of bringing prototypes to industrial products, ensuring that what works in the lab can be specified, verified, and scaled with confidence. You will bring solid expertise to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including those at Marvel Fusion, translating requirements between science, engineering, and manufacturing so that nothing gets lost at the handoffs. Furthermore, you will establish connections with external partners worldwide, including suppliers and manufacturing partners.

This role is ideal for candidates with hands-on experience in systems engineering for complex, multidisciplinary technical projects, who have a genuine interest in the transition from prototype to industrial product, and who would like to develop further within a multidisciplinary and multinational team.

Your Responsibilities

Define, structure, and maintain the overall system architecture of a scalable, industrial ultra-high-intensity laser system, ensuring coherent integration across mechanical, optical, electrical, and control subsystems
Own requirements management: capture, structure, allocate, and trace technical requirements from top-level system goals down to subsystem and component specifications - in close collaboration with the technical project manager
Own the system integration strategy, defining integration sequences, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and technical readiness gates across mechanical, optical, electrical, controls, vacuum, and safety systems.
Define and manage interfaces between subsystems and disciplines, proactively identifying and resolving conflicts before they become costly late-stage issues
Contribute to system-level trade studies and design reviews, weighing performance, manufacturability, cost, and schedule against each other
Develop and oversee verification and validation plans, ensuring that subsystem and system-level testing confirms both scientific performance and industrial reproducibility
Support the translation of lab-proven concepts into industrially specified, traceable, and repeatable system designs (e.g., through structured requirements, interface control documents, and configuration management)
Work closely with suppliers and manufacturing partners to align system specifications with feasibility, capacity, and quality capability already in the design phase
Contribute to risk management at the system level, tracking technical risks and their mitigation across the project lifecycle
Interact with external partners, suppliers, and internal teams (Laser, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Supply Chain/Procurement) throughout development and industrialization
Maintain system-level technical documentation and change tracking across the product's various maturity stages, from prototype to pre-series to series
Contribute to an inclusive and collaborative team environment in which all team members feel supported, valued, and heard

What you bring

Bachelor's with relevant experience, Master's or Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field
Demonstrated experience in systems engineering on complex, multidisciplinary technical projects (requirements management, interface definition, verification & validation)
Familiarity with systems engineering tools and methods (e.g., requirements management software, model-based systems engineering, V-model or similar development frameworks)
Ability to plan, organize, conduct, and lead technical projects/programs
Strong ability to communicate across disciplines and translate between scientific, engineering, and manufacturing perspectives
Fluent in English
A high degree of flexibility, adaptability, and a proactive, can-do attitude
Strong quantitative and analytical skills
You are willing to reside in the greater Munich area
Willingness to travel

What sets you apart

Experience in a scale-up or production ramp-up of a physical high-tech product — ideally from photonics, semiconductors, aerospace, or automotive
Experience taking complex hardware through design maturity gates such as PDR, CDR, integration readiness, commissioning, and acceptance testing.
Hands-on experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and system architecture tools, including the development of system architectures, requirements, interfaces, and traceability models.
Experience with system safety, risk, or reliability engineering (e.g., FMEA, hazard analysis)
Knowledge of quality management standards (e.g. ISO 10007, ISO 9001) and their application in the transition from one-off to series production
Background in optomechanical or laser system design, giving added credibility when defining interfaces with those subsystems

Senior Systems Engineer

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