{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"35716fde1b1b3e2752c505bb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/35716fde1b1b3e2752c505bb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/35716fde1b1b3e2752c505bb","title":"Program RF Engineer","description":"Working at MIT offers opportunities that just aren’t found anywhere else, including generous and unique benefits that help to ensure that MIT employees are healthy, supported, and enjoy a fulfilling work/life balance.\nWe welcome people from all walks of life to bring their talent, ideas, and experience to our community. We strongly encourage applications from individuals from all identities and backgrounds – like yours. If you want to be part of our exceptional, multicultural, collaborative, and inclusive community, then take a look at this opportunity.\nMIT provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the Institute reasonably expects to pay for a full time position at the time of posting (if you are applying for a part time salaried job, you will need to prorate the posted pay range). The pay offered to a selected candidate during hiring will be based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience and education/training, internal peer equity, and applicable legal requirements. This pay range represents base pay only and does not include any other benefits or compensation.\nProgram RF Engineer\nJob Number: 25954\nFunctional Area: Research - Engineering\nDepartment: Plasma Science and Fusion Center\nSchool Area: VP Research\nPay Range Minimum: $73,000\nPay Range Maximum: $111,000\nEmployment Type: Full-Time\nEmployment Category: Exempt\nVisa Sponsorship Available: No\nSchedule:\nPay Grade: No Grade\n\nPosting Description\n\nPROGRAM RF ENGINEER, Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), will provide engineering support for the RF transmitter, associated power supplies, controls, and microwave systems supporting the High-Field-Side Lower Hybrid Current Drive experimentally based research project at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego. The position supports the implementation, operation, maintenance, testing, and improvement of RF transmitter systems, high-voltage power supplies, low-level RF systems, controls, and microwave diagnostics. The Program RF Engineer I will contribute to engineering design, modeling, analysis, system integration, troubleshooting, quality assurance, documentation, and technical recommendations to improve system performance and reliability; and work as part of a multidisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, technicians, students, General Atomics personnel, external collaborators, and vendors. 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