Company Background

Tokamak Energy has unlocked a new route to scalable fusion power that is cost-effective and does not require huge infrastructure and capital expenditure. The technology will revolutionise the world’s energy production – it will be possible to produce more energy, more cheaply and with fewer harmful side effects (e.g. with no long-term nuclear waste or carbon emissions). Tokamak Energy aims to accelerate the development of fusion energy by combining two emerging technologies – spherical tokamaks and high-temperature superconductors. The company’s innovation has been featured on Channel 4 news, BBC News Click and Reuters news channel and the company received a Technology Pioneer Award at the World Economic Forum on 2016. This is the chance to join a fast-growing high technology company with an agile, dynamic team and to tackle the challenge of a lifetime.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the R&D, specification, procurement, installation, commission and maintenance of assigned diagnostic systems
• Manage the contracts and resources allocated to microwave diagnostics
• Assist in the design and interfaces to data acquisition and other systems
• Work in close collaboration with the design office through the design phase, leading jointly to procurement and installation
• May be requested to be part of any of the project’s teams dealing with any of the activities above and perform other duties upon management requests
• Interacts regularly with others in the Diagnostics areas
• Acts as a point of contact for RF and Microwave plasma diagnostics
• Take responsibility for regular calibration and updates of the calibration data for other systems such as data acquision and plasma control systems
• Perform analysis of the experimental data delivered by diagnostics

Essential selection criteria

• At least a masters/PhD degree in Physics
• Knowledge of Microwave diagnostics on high temperature plasma devices is essential
• Experience in design and development in experimental physics
• Experience in design, maintenance and calibration of microwave instrumentation
• Experience in analysis of plasma diagnostics data
• Ability to work on own initiative or in a team and multi-cultural environment
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Programming in Python, MatLab, LabVIEW C++ or similar

Desirable selection criteria

• Experience in using microwave design software
• Experience in high power experimental systems would be advantageous
• Experience in fusion related technologies such as Ultra High Vacuum (UHV) would be advantageous
• Good communication skills
• MS office (word, excel, powerpoint, outlook)

Benefits

• 25 days holiday, pro rata (plus bank holidays)
• Company pension scheme
• Eligible for company share option scheme after 1 years’ service
• Company bonus scheme, discretionary, dependant on performance
• Private medical insurance after 3 months service