Accelerator Physicist
Tachyon Industrial, Redwood City
About the job
About tachyon
Accelerators sit at the center of some of humanity's most important industries. They are used to test spacecraft electronics, manufacture medical isotopes, inspect critical infrastructure, advance fusion research, probe new materials, and explore fundamental physics. Yet despite their importance, accelerator technology has remained largely confined to national laboratories, universities, and bespoke (but enormous) government programs. Tachyon Industrial was founded to change that.
We are building a High Energy Physics Prime, the first venture-scale industrial accelerator company: a vertically integrated business focused on designing, manufacturing, and operating the next generation of particle accelerator infrastructure.
The role
We're looking for an accelerator physicist to contribute to machine physics for our first linac and the machines that follow it. You'll work across beam dynamics, machine performance, and commissioning, and you'll be one of the people in the room translating physics requirements into a machine that actually runs.
This role sits at the intersection of the RF, mechanical, and controls work happening across the company — you'll be pulling those pieces together into a coherent picture of how the accelerator performs, where its limits are, and what it takes to hit our performance targets.