High Power RF Engineer
Tokamak Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Abingdon • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Assembly
About the role
- Deliver system integration activities for RF plant: physical installation, interfaces, alignment, assembly, and test.
- Lead or support waveguide installation & commissioning (including conditioning, leak checks, inspections, acceptance tests and performance verification).
- Troubleshoot, repair and maintain high-power microwave components and subsystems (e.g., waveguide, quasi-optics, vacuum windows, mode converters, launchers, arc/flashover protection, cooling).
- Support commissioning and operational readiness: procedures, checklists, interlocks proving, fault response, spares strategy, and preventive maintenance.
- Work with Controls, Vacuum, Electrical, Design and other operational teams to optimise performance and respond to experimental needs.
- Contribute to NBI and beamline activities: installation support, commissioning, fault finding, and interface management Therefore, we also welcome experience from other accelerator / beam systems
- Produce and maintain engineering documentation (requirements, test plans, risk assessments, method statements, operating procedures, maintenance plans).
- Prepare specifications and scopes of work for equipment procurement and installation contracts.
- Liaise with manufacturers, contractors and collaborators throughout the hardware lifecycle
- Maintain safe systems of work for your equipment and activities, contributing to strong operational discipline and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Commissioning / installation / operation / maintenance of complex technical systems
- Comfort in multi-discipline interfaces (mechanical installation, vacuum, cooling, controls, HV/LV, safety)
- Strong documentation habits and clear communication - able to work effectively with technicians, engineers, physicists, suppliers and operations teams.
- A safety-first mindset: ability to follow and improve safe systems of work.
- Degree (or equivalent experience) in engineering, engineering physics, applied physics, or a related discipline.
- Good knowledge of high-power RF technology: RF power sources, transmission lines, launching antennas, ancillary subsystems, RF related hazards and protection
- Practical experience in operation and maintenance of high-power (above 100 kW) RF equipment: commissioning, troubleshooting, control and interlocks
- Particle beam / accelerator systems (ion sources, HV/LV pulsed power, beam transport, diagnostics, vacuum beamlines)
- Familiarity with relevant design software and engineering tools
- Qualifications in high-power RF Electronics or similar.
Benefits
- - Salary dependent on skills and experience and will be discussed from the outset
- - 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
- - Discretionary 3-day festive break depending on business needs
- - Eligible for discretionary performance related bonus
- - Share options scheme
- - Pension scheme
- - Financial benefits – including; group life insurance, critical illness, health cash plan and discount scheme
- - Innovation and Merit bonuses
- - Investment in training and development to support career progression
- - Opportunity to work on and contribute to world class innovation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
system integrationinstallationcommissioningmaintenancetroubleshootinghigh-power microwave componentsengineering documentationRF technologyhigh-power RF equipmentparticle beam systems
Soft skills
clear communicationstrong documentation habitssafety-first mindsetcollaborationoperational disciplinecontinuous improvement
Certifications
degree in engineeringqualifications in high-power RF Electronics