Electromagnetic Supersensing Tomography Engineer

This exciting role is to work on an accurate, compact and innovative multiphase flow meter (MPFM) that will primarily help the oil & gas and energy industries to reduce their environmental footprint while the technology could also spinout to various industries.

Main duties and responsibilities

1 Hard/Firm/Software Development.
- Improve the EM Tomography prototype by considering FPGA implementation of the hardware preferably using VHDL and Xilinx Zynq UltraScale + MPSoC.
- Optimise the electromagnetic tomography software for low computational cost - preferably employing GPU / CUDA.
- Electromagnetic Sensor design and shielding simulation using COMSOL.
- Develop and refine laboratory electronic circuit prototypes and mechanical assemblies to optimise the key elements of the system, (e.g. sensing arrays, drive electronics, multiplexing, signal detection and EMC screening elements).
- Design efficient and compact electromechanical guarding of electrodes / coils / transducers - particularly to avoid fringing effects.
- Integrate the EM Tomography hardware/firmware with other advanced technologies by creating a common platform electronics board with the Lead electronics Engineer.
- Integrate the EM Tomography software with other advanced technologies by creating a common platform electronics board with the Lead Software Engineer.
- Conduct extensive flow testing to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of the EM Tomography units.

2. Project Management.
- Follow OGM's product creation process (PCP) for the effective improvement of the existing prototype technology to a robust and accurate product for use in the demanding oil & gas industry.

3. Research.
- Develop sensitive admittance measurement and tomography imaging techniques, hardware and advanced signal processing capabilities.
- Develop hands-on skills to utilise OGM's industrial small scale multi-phase flow loops (oil-water and gas-oil-water) as a testbed to quantify the multiphase flow with well-defined uncertainties.

4. Teamwork and motivation.
- This project is part of a larger project and genuine team effort, and flexibility will be required when scheduling tasks to progress concurrently.
- Identify and resolve design and integration issues by being an effective communicator, demonstrating the ability to work on your own sub-project as well as the integration project.

5. Initiative and problem-solving.
- The main objectives of the project and the desired timeline are set but how they will be achieved will be dictated by the evolution of the research. The collective problem-solving capability is at the centre of the project effort.

6. Liaison and Networking.
- The project relies on a good dissemination of results but also the pro-active search for the right information, sometimes outside the applicant's direct skill set, and sometimes to show external customers the results of the project and how it matches theirobjectives. Timely and relevant exchanges of information are primordial.

Person Specification

**Qualifications**:

- A PhD or an equivalent professional qualification and significant relevant experience in one of the following areas: Electronic & Electrical Engineering or Physics.

Experience/Knowledge
- Ability to use project management principles and techniques to schedule the delivery of multi-party product design (ideally including working with sub-contractors).
- Proficiency in designing, implementing, and debugging digital systems.
- Experience in developing and implementing complex imaging algorithms.
- Experience of having adapted complex algorithms into parallel platforms or GPGPUs.
- Knowledge of embedded software/Firmware development.
- Knowledge of scientific programming language skills Matlab or C.
- Knowledge of analogue and digital (printed) electronic board design (PCB).
- Strong coding background and previous industrial or research project experience in inverse problems, tomographic techniques, flow imaging and/or complex signal processing.
- Evidence of having project managed a project whether in an industrial or graduate/undergraduate setting would be advisable.

**Skills**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (proven experience of writing reports, giving presentations, interacting with customers or other third parties communicating complex technical information to stakeholders at all levels).
- Teamwork and motivation: experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to manage time critical projects to agreed plans and specifications.
- Ability to conceptualise and understand the commercial imperative for the project.
- Understanding and ability to follow internal product design, specification, and certification processes.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.