Plasma Diagnostician

**Company Background**

What if there was a limitless, safe, clean, low-cost energy source, providing much needed global energy security? What if that energy source could also help reduce climate change? We believe that’s fusion energy. Tokamak Energy is a leading global commercial fusion energy company based near Oxford, UK. We are taking established science and building on it by pioneering the use of spherical tokamaks in conjunction with high temperature superconducting magnets.

Once realised, fusion energy will be a key enabler for meeting world energy requirements and climate policy goals. Come and be a part of a dynamic and innovative team who are striving to provide a solution to one of humanity’s greatest challenges: clean and sustainable energy for all.

**Overview of the role**

**In this role, you will**:

- Take responsibility for the technical development of assigned new diagnostic systems, including data acquisition and data analysis
- Contribute to the design, procurement, installation, commissioning, and maintenance of assigned instrument for diagnostic systems,
- Take part in experimental campaigns ensuring assigned diagnostics are available and operating correctly, acting as primary point of contact for certain diagnostic instruments
- Take responsibility for regular calibration and updates to the calibration data for assigned systems,
- Perform analysis of the operational and/or experimental data delivered by the assigned diagnostic instruments,
- Work in close collaboration with the Diagnostics Engineering team, and if appropriate the Design Office, through the design phase, leading jointly to procurement and installation of assigned instruments,
- Be required to work regularly with Diagnostics team members and interact with others in the wider Tokamak Science directorate as well as the Design Office, multi-skilled technicians, software engineers and other functional teams to facilitate any of the activities above,
- Be required to contribute to other projects within the Diagnostics team, particularly contributing to neutron diagnostics, and perform other duties relevant to company milestones upon management request,
- Be required to contribute to the design of diagnostics instruments for future, next-generation tokamak devices.

**Hazard-specific / Safety-critical duties**

This job may include the following hazards or safety-critical activities:

- Working at height (ladders & scaffolding)
- Occasional driving on Company business
- Working with ionising radiation (Occasional use of calibration sources)
- Regular manual handling
- Working with electricity (LV only)
- Working with or in the vicinity of equipment that produces high magnetic fields
- Working with materials that are managed under the control of substances hazardous to health regulations (COSHH)

**Requirements**:
In your cover letter please provide with few sentences on how you meet the requirements below:
**_Essential _**
- A PhD degree or Masters (with experience) in Physics, Nuclear Engineering, or related disciplines,
- Knowledge of plasma/nuclear detectors, e.g., fast ion loss detection,
- Ability to develop and modify the data acquisition systems e.g., FPGAs are highly desired
- Programming in Python, and VHDL,
- Experience designing, analysing, and assembling analogue electronics boards,
- Experience in design and development in experimental physics,
- Experience in maintenance and calibration of ion diagnostics, including monte-carlo modelling, efficiency calculations, etc.
- Experience in analysis of experimental data obtained from the instruments and validation techniques,
- Ability to work on own initiative or in a team and multi-cultural environment,
- Excellent planning and organisational skills.

**_Desirable_**:

- Experience with neutron and γ diagnostics,
- 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 (plus bank holidays)
- Company pension scheme
- Eligible for company share option scheme
- Company bonus scheme, discretionary, dependant on performance
- Private medical insurance after 3 months service
- Cycle to work scheme

**Pre-employment screening**

**Data privacy**

**Equality of opportunity**

**Working arrangements**

Please note this role does offer hybrid working, our model sets out a minimum 60% onsite / 40% home working split.

Part time working or job share options will be reviewed on an individual basis.