Senior Systems Engineer

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
• 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…