Magnet Engineer

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.

The company, founded in 2009 as a spin-off from the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, currently employs a growing team of over 180 people with talent from the UK and around the world including expert scientific, engineering, industrial and commercial capabilities.  The company has more than 55 families of patent applications and has raised over £100m of private investment.

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.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Developing high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet technology to support the fusion and non-fusion projects.
• Working with external collaborators as required to develop HTS magnet designs and mechanical models of HTS magnets.
• Taking ownership of the mechanical development of the magnet designs ensuring the work is focussed on the project objectives.
• Taking ownership of the mechanical materials database and ensuring appropriate material properties are used in the complex magnet mechanical models.
• Working with the wider team to design prototype testing facilities to ensure the measurements on prototype coils can be used to accurately validate complex mechanical models.
• Interpreting test results and producing clear written reports.

Hazard-specific / Safety-critical duties

This job includes the following hazards or safety-critical activities which will require successful pre-employment health screening through our occupational health service before the successful candidate will be allowed to start work:

• Driving on Company business
• Working with electricity (possibly HV as well as LV)
• Working with or in the vicinity of equipment that produces high magnetic fields.
• Travel outside of Europe or North America on company business