Physicist

Location: Staplehurst, Kent
Salary: Competitive Salary, DOE
Hours: Monday - Friday
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Generous benefits package including:

• Competitive pay rates
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Quarterly staff bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Company sick pay scheme
• Free on-site parking
• Employee referral scheme
• Training and development
• Competitive holidays
• 2 x death in service cover

About Us:
A family run company, Magnetic Shields Limited (MSL) is the industry leader in the design and manufacture of magnetically shielded products and rooms. Our brand new factory unit and fibre cutting laser with full stock automation more than doubles our production capacity and throughput. This period of expansion is a very exciting time for the company and we are looking to speak to applicants interested in joining our R&D team as a PHYSICIST.

This is an ideal role for someone with significant post qualification experience who wants to develop their career within a small team in a growing department lead by a forward-looking research and development manager.

About the role:

• Design, simulation and testing of magnetic shielding for a wide range of applications from quantum technologies to space vehicles
• Magnetic qualification (QC) of final products to ensure adherence to technical specifications and in writing technical reports for customers. Once familiar with magnetic testing processes, the successful candidate will oversee junior members of staff on testing responsibilities
• Communicating with customers to provide technical support, which can additionally involve site visits to commission, calibrate and troubleshoot some of the larger products
• Perform critical feasibility and fundamental design capture on collaborative multi-party research and development projects for a range of applications from space to quantum, from automotive to aerospace, from big science to semiconductor fabs
• Supporting the R&D Manager in scoping research projects, finding funding vehicles and project partners, writing collaborative grant applications and managing projects to delivery.

Includes (but not limited to):

• Formulating research projects - identifying and formulating internal R&D projects to assist with development of the R&D department
• Planning of internal projects - internal steps that need to happen and timeframes, etc
• Researching and identifying funding sources, including contributing to funding applications
• Presenting work and findings to project partners and other external stakeholders as appropriate
• Setting up lab experiments to conduct magnetic measurements
• Conducting data analysis of magnetic measurements
• Conducting off-site magnetic surveys to assess environment viability
• Writing detailed and accurate technical reports on measurements and analysis
• Writing and using software to enable efficient in lab experiments
• Conducting magnetic shielding simulations using ANSYS and Maxwell 3D
• Representing the Company in external environments as appropriate

Minimum Requirements:

• PhD, master's or bachelor's degree in Physics (2:1 or above)
• At least five years of relevant post-graduate (ideally industrial) experience
• Good programming skills/experience in at least one programming language such as Python, C++, R etc
• Experience in laboratory work and processing experimental data
• Good technical documentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience in the fields of electromagnetism and solid state physics
• Experience in the testing and qualification of electronic circuits
• Experience in the field of quantum technologies, ideally sensing
• Experience with EM modelling software (i.e. ANSYS, COMSOL Multiphysics, Opera, etc.)
• Knowledge of instrument automation and data acquisition
• Experience with LabVIEW programming software.

We acknowledge that the most valuable aspect of business is the people, and we are looking to recruit the next generation of our workforce!
We will invest in your success, is it time for you to join our team and start your journey?