Senior HTS R&D Engineer

Job description

Overview of Responsibilities

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Senior HTS R&D Engineer you will play a pivotal role in helping rapidly de-risk the re-mountable joints of the STEP toroidal TF coils and building global relationships to enable the testing of re-mountable joints to reduce overall risk.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Manage up to 5+ engineers in a highly focused agile technology development program.
• Development of safety cases prior to conducting experiments
• Development of relationships with global collaborators

Qualifications

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

• The ideal candidate will have a bachelors with a relevant technical degree with a minimum of 5+ years of work experience in the superconducting magnets industry. Or a PhD with 3+ years of experience in the superconducting magnets industry.
• 3-5+ years of scoping out tests, performing sizing calculations (electromagnetic and circuit calculations) and simulations (ideally using COMSOL AC/DC or ANSYS Multiphysics) and performing tests on superconductors at cryogenic temperature utilising cryostats, DAQ and required instrumentation (voltage taps, temperature sensors, strain gauges) and LABVIEW.
• Experience working with cryogens such as Liquid Nitrogen, Liquid Helium and Gaseous Helium.
• Experience in testing mechanical properties of superconductors, insulators, and solders.
• Experience working with high field magnets, preferably HTS.
• Experience building small test coils, preferably HTS.
• Experience in preparing and characterizing REBCO using optical and electron microscopy tools.
• Experienced in DoE (Design of Experiments) and statistical analysis.

Additional Information

A full list of our benefits can be found here https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.