Date Posted: 6/20/2024 1:50:58 PM
City, State: Everett, WA
Job Type: Full Time
Salary (USD): $120,000 - $164,000
Description
Title: R&D Engineer, RadCon
Location: Everett, WA
Shift: $120 - $164k
Compensation:
Benefits: Company offers a comprehensive range of benefits and perks, designed to support healthy, fulfilling lives as we tackle the challenge of harnessing fusion power for a clean energy future. Benefits become effective on the first day of the month coinciding with or immediately following your start date.
Travel: None
Relocation: none
Position Description:
As an R&D Engineer with radiological controls experience the purpose is to bring the most powerful, controlled pulsed-fusion device ever constructed online with the goal of generating electrical power. When operational, our fusion power plant will generate low energy neutrons as a bi-product and will work controls and exposure limits planning and has translatable fusion experience to help accomplish company’s goals.
Veteran profiles: Nuke Officer
Responsibilities:
• Complete a training program and qualify as an operator of company's prototype fusion machine
• Safely operate and control pulsed power, high-energy mega joule capacitor systems
• Author and develop fusion prototype operating procedures and create experimental test plans
• Support Polaris tests including test set up, checkouts, and commissioning of Polaris subsystems
• Plan test team post testing re-entry procedures and set stay time limits to accomplish machine inspection and maintenance in concert with exposure limits and ALARA
• Work with large-scale vacuum systems, including vacuum cycling quartz vacuum chambers that are 1+ meters in diameter
• Work with neutron and gamma radiation monitoring equipment
• Learn and understand plasma physics, including how to create FRC's
• Support development of LabView-based and PXIe-NI chassis-based control systems including GUI modifications for improved operator situational awareness and human error prevention
• Collaborate with the Radiation Safety and Nuclear Science department to implement radiation worker standards and training
• Participate in test data reviews
Education/Experience:
• B.S. or higher in aerospace or mechanical engineering, physics, or related field of study and 4+ years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated ability and desire to rapidly learn new systems
• Track record of safely operating a highly complex machine in a high consequence operational environment
• Experience planning and conducting maintenance in a radiation environment
• Experience with radiological controls including stay time, work controls, and exposure planning
• Previous occupational exposure to ionizing radiation
• Knowledge of types and effects of ionizing radiation, and ability to quickly estimate dose
• Experience working on high power plasma devices or high voltage capacitor and power supplies
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