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HPM Engineer, Klystrons & Gyrotrons

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Clearing questions

1. Are you a U.S. person under U.S. export control laws, meaning a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee? *

YesNo

2. Where are you located, or willing to be based for this on site role? *

Southern CaliforniaAustinElsewhere in the U.S., willing to relocate to Southern CaliforniaElsewhere in the U.S., willing to relocate to AustinNot willing to work on site in Southern California or Austin

3. Which best describes your background? *

PhD in a directly relevant technical fieldBS or MS in a relevant technical field plus 5 or more years of directly relevant professional experienceNeither

4. Outside academic coursework alone, have you personally designed, built, integrated, commissioned, or tested a high power or high voltage microwave source, or a major subsystem of one? *

YesNo

5. Which systems or components have you personally worked on in a substantive engineering role? *

Select all that apply.

Technical evidence

6. The highest power system you personally worked on *

Give the operating frequency, RF power, beam or supply voltage if applicable, pulse width or duty cycle, and your personal contribution. Use actual numbers and units.

0/120 words

7. Describe the strongest piece of microwave hardware you personally owned *

One source, subsystem, or component you personally drove from design into hardware or test. State the device, operating regime, what you personally owned, the tools you used, the hardest technical problem, and the measured result.

0/250 words

8. Which tools have you used for serious engineering work? *

What did you model with the tools you selected?

0/120 words

9. A high power microwave tube reaches its intended beam voltage and current, but measured RF output power is substantially below the simulation prediction. What are the first things you would measure or investigate, and why? *

0/250 words

10. Tell us about a high voltage, vacuum, RF, thermal, or beam related failure you personally debugged. What failed, how did you isolate the cause, and what did you change? *

0/200 words

11. What is the most technically difficult thing you have built or made work? *

0/180 words

12. What specifically about Stellios and this role is interesting to you? *

0/80 words

13. When can you start, and what compensation range are you targeting? *