Transformer Design Engineer

IONATE is a deep technology start-up, revolutionising grid-scale power flow control with an innovative hardware-software solution. Our London team is looking for a Transformer Design Engineer to support our work on game-changing green technology and grow within our world-class team.

Requiring knowledge in transformer design and development, this position will involve working directly with our Senior Transformer R&D Engineer. You will play a key role in developing and implementing new transformer designs, taking concepts through to commercial product for customers.

With a focus on electrical design and simulation, you will be active in initiating analyses, design reviews, technical discussions and will have an innovative approach with engineering reasoning. Importantly, your work will include supporting project and test activities and help to ensure that these are completed within schedule.

What you will do:

• Develop new distribution transformer concepts – diving deep into the electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical, and material design.
• Produce technical requirements and specifications based on customer requirements and design concepts.
• Simulate and model transformer designs and analyse parameters such as losses and faults to tune and optimise designs.
• Produce CAD / CAE designs following a verification and validation process.
• Ensure that all designs, respect safety, quality, and international standards.
• Create and maintain process documents, technical reports, product manuals, and white papers.
• Actively support our multi-disciplinary team including electrical, power electronics, control and embedded systems, and software engineers.

Requirements

What you will need:

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Several proven years designing, testing, and manufacturing distribution transformers
• Sound knowledge of single and three phase oil filled/dry type distribution transformers.
• Experience carrying out electrical and magnetic field, heat and oversaturation analysis is a plus.
• Ability to use FEM / BEM numerical methods and design within engineering constraints.
• Sound knowledge of transformers and related standards: IEC, IEEE/ANSI, Ecodesign.
• Experience in design procedures, calculations, modelling, simulations, and material selection.
• Experience using MATLAB/ ANSYS/ MAGNET/ SolidWorks or equivalent software to simulate and model transformer designs both electrically and mechanically
• Experience with installation and commissioning of distribution transformers is a plus.
• Can work to clear timescales and collaborate with a cross functional team to deliver projects on time.
• An ability to work on projects with ambitious targets.
• A skilled communicator, working with multiple disciplines and teams across the globe.
• A drive to learn new things!

Benefits

Your benefits:

• Flexible working schedules: You will be based in our modern West London offices but will have the flexibility for hybrid work-from-home arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
• Employee Option Plan: You get equity in IONATE, so as we succeed so do you.
• Company pension: a competitive, flexible, and sustainable pension product to help you plan for your future.
• Career Development: It’s important to us that you have the opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth.
• Cycle to Work and EV scheme: Low carbon travel is important for everyone, so we have in place both cycle and EV schemes to help you purchase a bicycle or electric car.
• Slow travel: We believe in a low carbon future, so if you wish to travel by a lower carbon method – but it takes much longer than flying - we will give you an extra 2 days per year.

About IONATE

Driven by first-principles engineering, IONATE is transforming power systems for the energy transition.

Our hardware is the Hybrid Intelligent Transformer (HIT): a new building block for the power grid and everything connecting. It integrates into the network like a transformer but solves key power quality issues through all-in-one power flow control. Beyond the passive voltage step, it provides data visibility, stepless and dynamic voltage control, harmonics removal and reactive power control with millisecond-precision. Its innovative hybrid design leveraging magnetic control makes it a robust, reliable, and affordable upgrade.

While deployed to remove constraints and prevent issues, HITs effectively light up real-time control nodes for the very first time. Once placed in strategic points of the network, IONATE’s AI platform can coordinate them to form a true smart system, coupling top-down grid orchestration with instantaneous bottom-up control in the physics. This full stack will achieve real-time system optimisation and turn the passive old grid into a flexible, decentralized platform that catalyses innovation.

3 reasons why you should apply:

You’ll work on something that matters. The most rewarding aspect of our job is seeing what we build in the lab get used in the real world. As our tech gets used in solar farms, batteries, and electricity grids, your work will help shape the future of the green energy transition.

The thinking you’ll do here is not your average exercises on repeat. Building a brand-new class of tech requires cutting-edge ideas. If you like to solve unconventional problems, to be given freedom to explore, to challenge – and be challenged by – field experts, you will fit just right in.

The rocket ship is taking off. Our innovation has been proven and demand is immense. IONATE is now rapidly scaling up and undertaking global projects. Joining early and working side-by-side with our leadership team means ample opportunity to grow your role together with our company.

IONATE has a friendly team that collaborates and supports one-another. If you don’t fit all the description above, but you are passionate about the work we are doing and could add value to our team, please get in touch. We believe in making positions fit the skills of people, not the other way around. We are also committed to providing equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone. We value diversity in race, gender identity, sexuality, age, family or civil status, disability, religion, or ethnicity and encourage you to apply wherever you come from.