Job Description
The SPARC tokamak will have a variety of complex systems under extreme electromagnetic and thermal loads. We're looking to add an early-/mid-career structural engineer to our team to help us tackle these engineering challenges.
This team member will:
- work within a multi-disciplinary team of physicists and engineers as part of collaborative sponsored research projects at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center;
- design and analyze novel solutions to complex structural problems;
- interface with vendors and partners to ensure manufacturing feasibility of designs;
- identify and help execute enabling R&D; and
- contribute to both tokamak R&D as well as spin-out technologies.
The ideal candidate will have most, if not all, of these requirements:
- solid knowledge of the fundamentals of computational structural mechanics;
- a high proficiency for modern CAD and FEA tools;
- experience with systems at the limits of engineering (e.g., plastic analysis, indeterminate structures, advanced materials, etc.);
- eagerness to learn magnet structural engineering from leaders in the field;
- a bachelor’s degree in a related engineering field (e.g., mechanical or civil engineering);
- at least 5 years of experience doing structural engineering in industry;
- a professional engineer is preferred but not required;
- the skill to clearly express and critique ideas;
- a value for elegance and simplicity over complexity; and
- a drive towards commercially-viable solutions.