Graduate Radiation Physicist

Job description Graduate Radiation Physicist

About the Company

Rapiscan Systems is an industry leader in detection technology, providing cargo and vehicle inspection systems and services for ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities, and checkpoints to help customers combat terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud. We offer a broad array of scanning system configurations that leverage low-, medium-, and high-energy X-ray technology—or multiple X-ray technologies—to address each customer’s unique security application requirements. Our commitment to excellence in imaging performance, innovative design, and uncompromising quality ensures our solutions consistently deliver best-in-class imaging, high reliability, and operator satisfaction, to help customers find threats and contraband with ease and confidence.

About the Role

Work as part of an expanding Science and Technology team to drive forward the Research and Development Road map for the Business. Working specifically on system-level data capture, analysis, performance tracking and monitoring for a variety of different High-Energy X-ray sources and detector assemblies used in the Non-Intrusive Cargo and Vehicle Inspection industry. Working alongside physicists, software, and electronics engineers to experimentally evaluate the impact of innovative designs and concepts brought to market in a quick-turn around and fast-paced environment, whilst supporting legacy programs and existing schemes of work.

Responsibilities

• Report to the Science and Technology Manager, with day-to-day support and guidance Senior team members within the Science group.
• Support the data capture, analysis and system performance optimisation for a number of products at the point of Commissioning and customer acceptance testing.
• Explore methods and techniques to reduce the dose footprint of X-ray imaging systems, maximising performance at lower X-ray doses and reducing the cost of shielding with targeted solutions.
• Understand, monitor and disseminate in a clear and concise manner the relevant standards for X-ray performance and dose exposure in Cargo and Vehicle imaging.
• Develop tools and techniques to help anticipate system image performance for future units, analyse X-ray images on current units and establish trends and correlations for various system-level configurations.
• Develop and maintain analytical models: excel; Matlab; Geant4, to predict detector response to X-ray illumination and replicate X-ray spectral compositions.
• Work closely with the software team to develop and deliver image enhancement tools and filters into the inspection suite.
• Support programs and projects to deliver fully compliant X-ray imaging systems at customer acceptance tests, both on site and at customer facilities world-wide.
• Take responsibility for the design of X-ray based imaging systems for inspection of cargo and vehicles.
• Undertake system-level design and underlying physics analysis

Qualifications

Graduate/Postgraduate experience in radiation physics with experimental background. Experience using excel and Matlab for data analysis. The ability to work with others in a multi-disciplinary, fast-paced product development environment. Willingness to support offsite (world wide) programs of work often at short notice and out of normal working hours in the UK.

Company Benefits

• Excellent salary
• Car Scheme
• Excellent career development.
• Holidays 25 days holidays plus bank holidays increases up to 29 days after 10 years’ service.
• Life insurance entitlement from first working day which is four times your basic salary.
• Charity work 2 days paid leave if you wish to volunteer and work for your nominated charity.
• One day paid leave to take your Birthday off
• Pension
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay.
• Healthcare Cash plan
• Eden Red discounts

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