Control Systems Engineer

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Job Title: Control Systems Engineer

Location: Milton Park, Abingdon (OX14)

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

The company was originally established in 2009 to design and develop small spherical tokamaks and compact fusion reactors for a range of applications. Since then they've unlocked a new route to scalable fusion power that is cost-effective and does not require huge infrastructure and capital expenditure. The technology will revolutionise the world's energy production - it will be possible to produce more energy, more cheaply and with fewer harmful side effects (e.g. with no long term nuclear waste or carbon emissions).

Their current aim is to accelerate the development of fusion energy by combining two emerging technologies - spherical tokamaks and high-temperature superconductors. The company's innovation has been featured on Channel 4 news, BBC News Click and Reuters news channel and they received a Technology Pioneer Award at the World Economic Forum on 2016. This is the chance to join a fast-growing high technology company with an agile, dynamic team and to tackle the challenge of a lifetime.

The Role:

The candidate will be part of the Systems Engineering team. The team is responsible for producing the control systems, software and user screens that are used by the operations team to run experiments.

Responsibilities:

Integrating systems into the plant infrastructure

Reviewing and refactoring existing code

Gathering requirements from internal stakeholders

Working through GitLab and Mantis job tickets

Interpreting functional requirements and solving the technical solution

Producing control logic, component boundary interfaces and user interfaces

Interfacing with third party equipment

Writing test cases for software

Fault finding and debugging

Working to tight deadlines

The Candidate:

Essential:

Considerable experience in delivering complex technology product, construction and / or infrastructure programmes

High level user of Microsoft Project and Agile programme management tools (e.g. Redmine)

Knowledge and experience of engineering design and / or software development processes

Effective communication (both oral and written), internally and externally

Strong problem-solving and decision making skills

Well-structured planning and resourcing for budget setting and management

Teaching, supporting and leading others

Desirable:

Engineering or computer science degree

Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD)

Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA)

Certified LabVIEW Embedded Developer (CLED)

Hands on experience with National Instruments' cRIO

C++, Python, MATLAB or Simulink skills

PLC (Siemens)

Linux (CentOS 7)

Signal electronics skills

Database experience, MDSplus, MySQL, Cassandra

Real-time (deterministic) software development

Benefits:

25 Days Holiday (plus bank holidays)

Company Pension scheme

Eligible for company share option scheme after one years' service

Company bonus scheme, discretionary, dependent on performance

Private medical insurance after 3 months' service

Please note: Only candidates with the relevant skills and experience will be contacted regarding this position. If you do not hear back from us within 10 days of submitting, your application then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. However, they may contact you in the future to discuss other opportunities.

No terminology in the advert or job description is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.

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Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Project Engineer, Engineering Project Management, Project Management, Graduate, Engineering Graduate, Operations Engineer, Production Projects Engineer, Engineering Manager, Project Coordinator, may also be considered for this role.