Microwave Design Engineer

The role

You will drive the integrated RF and thermo-mechanical design of high-power components for the Alpha Heating System. You will build and test these components in the lab before installing them on the Alpha stellarator.

What you will do

• Provide innovative solutions to complex RF engineering challenges by collaborating with physicists
• Develop designs and evaluate vendor designs to deliver power to the stellarator
• Contribute to stellarator development process and interface RF components with other systems
• Contribute to mechanical and thermal analysis and sensitivity studies
• Interface with Alpha project management teams to realize delivery of RF components

Required qualifications

• Highly capable RF engineer with experience in millimeter waves
• Knowledge of tools and best practices for design of these systems
• Familiarity with RF modeling codes such as SURF3D, CST, COMSOL, GdfidL, openEMS, or python codes
• Capability of performing modeling at 200 GHz frequencies
• Experience validating first-of-a-kind designs with uncertain performance
• Experience working as part of a team on multi-scale and multi-physics simulations, testing, and prototyping
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience with gyrotrons and associated components including transmission systems, launcher antennas, and rf loads
• Understanding of quasi optical propagation of millimeter waves and ray tracing

Nice to have

• experience with plasma physics

Before you apply

• Recruiter Interview (30-60 min)
• Technical Screening (30 min)
• Technical Panel (3x60 min)

About the company

Proxima Fusion is Europe’s fastest-growing fusion company and the continent’s best-funded fusion player. They are developing the hardware and infrastructure needed to deliver the world’s first commercial stellarator fusion power plant.