Job Title: HTS Measurement Engineer
Location: Milton Park, Abingdon
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
The Company was originally established in 2009 to design and develop small spherical tokamaks and compact fusion reactors for a range of applications. Since then, they have 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). They aim to accelerate the development of fusion energy by combining two emerging technologies – spherical tokamaks and high-temperature superconductors (HTSs).
The company’s innovation has been featured on Channel 4 news, BBC News Click and Reuters news channel and they 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.
Role Overview:
A position is available in the HTS magnet team for an HTS Measurement Engineer. The successful candidate will be responsible for performing a wide variety of experiments in the laboratory to participate in the pioneering work taking place on HTS magnet development at the company.
The successful candidate will have a methodical, analytic mindset, able to design and carry out complex experiments and analyse the results in rigorous detail. Organised, self-driven and able to work to defined timescales. Have excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a team of engineers designing new and complex devices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Sample preparation and making measurements on superconducting tapes, joints and assemblies under cryogenic conditions, demonstrating key magnet concepts at small scale
- Testing novel high field HTS magnets
- Design and use of experimental test equipment
- Reviewing test during experiments to diagnose and correct any instrumentation issues quickly and efficiently to ensure successful magnet testing
- Data analysis using numerical software packages
- Interpreting test results and producing clear written reports
- Liaising with international research facilities and wire suppliers to assist in the procurement and characterisation of very large HTS tape quantities for upcoming magnets
- Maintaining records and inventories of HTS tapes for quality control purposes
- Highly motivated to deliver against challenging objectives in a compressed timescale
- Ability to contribute effectively in a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and scientists
- Willingness to learn new techniques and technologies
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Organised approach to complex problems
- Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision
- Proactive attitude
- Self-starting and self-reliant
- Ability to devise and operate effective project schedules
- Creativity and innovation
The successful Candidates will have:
Essential
- Degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline
- Experience of performing practical work in a laboratory or engineering research environment
- Experience of working in a team of scientists and/or engineers
- Familiarity with standard laboratory electrical test equipment such as power supplies and data acquisition
- A good understanding of the principles of electricity and magnetism
- An aptitude for programming and data analysis using software such as Matlab, Microsoft Excel VBA, Python, National Instruments Labview, etc.
Desirable
- Familiarity with superconductivity
- Experience of analogue and digital electronics
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, dependent on performance
- Private medical insurance after 3 months service
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