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
