Senior Software & Controls Engineer

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:

1. Application Screening
2. Recruiter Call
3. Hiring Lead Interview
4. On-site Interviews
5. Offer

The impact you will make

Your Responsibilities

• Design and develop the control system of a scalable, industrial diode-pumped ultra-high intensity laser system 
• Actively advance lab-control functionality into industrially specified, maintainable, and repeatable control architectures — not a one-off lab setup, but a system that can be reproduced across future installations and diagnosed remotely when a fault occurs at a customer site 
• Define the resource requirements for implementing the control system
• Lead the implementation and testing of these systems during the assembly and commissioning phase, and own the acceptance tests for the control system, both for what we deliver to a customer and for what a supplier delivers to us
• Derive specifications and document them in proper form, with an eye toward traceability and reproducibility as the system matures from prototype to series 
• Be responsible for the integration of the control system into a future facility or customer site, and closely collaborate with the Laser and Engineering departments of Marvel Fusion in the planning, construction, and commissioning phases 
• Work closely with suppliers and integration partners to align control system specifications with feasibility, capacity, and quality capability already in the design phase, and own the interfaces between supplier-delivered control systems and our own software, so that no part of the chain is left without an owner
• Contribute your experience with control systems to the overall laser design 
• Design and implement machine protection and the interfaces to personnel safety: interlocks, shutter and emergency-stop logic, and fault handling fast enough to protect hardware between shots
• Own the timing of the machine: trigger distribution and delay generation across seed, amplifiers, Pockels cells, pump diodes, cameras and diagnostics, plus synchronization to a customer's external trigger, and the diagnostics that verify it
• Build the diagnostics and data layer so that performance, drift and faults can be analyzed rather than recalled: cameras, energy meters, spectrometers and photodiodes feeding a shot-indexed record
• Implement closed-loop control where it earns its place, for example, beam pointing and energy stabilization, and repeatable startup and shutdown sequences
• Contribute to an inclusive and collaborative team environment in which all team members feel supported, valued, and heard

What you bring

• Master's or Ph.D. in Electrical, Control, or Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Extensive practical experience in designing and implementing complex control systems with significant areas of responsibility 
• Experience in integrating multiple systems of multiple companies and stakeholder management in general, including specifying and formally accepting control systems delivered by an external supplier 
• Experience with controls of cameras, motors, power supply (and other subsystems related to laser technology), and with industrial control hardware: PLCs, fieldbus such as EtherCAT or IO-Link, motion control, sensors and actuators
• Demonstrated experience taking a control system from prototype to series maturity — e.g. robustness, maintainability, and repeatability considerations beyond a single lab instance 
• Experience with interlocks and machine protection for equipment that can damage itself
• Experience with timing and trigger distribution in pulsed or synchronized machines
• Working knowledge of closed-loop control, and of image and signal processing for diagnostics
• Professional software engineering practice: version control, code review, testing, configuration management and documentation
• Ability to plan, organize, conduct, and lead technical projects/programs within your field of responsibility
• Comfortable in the laboratory, debugging real hardware and not only code
• 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 with industrial control standards or practices relevant to bringing a control system from prototype to series (e.g., structured commissioning processes, industrial fieldbus/communication standards) 
• Knowledge of quality management standards (e.g. ISO 10007, ISO 9001) and their application in the transition from one-off to series production 
• High-energy or ultrafast laser systems, or another machine with comparable diagnostics
• Control frameworks used at large facilities
• Data-driven or machine-learning approaches to tuning and stabilization