Job Description
The salary for this role is £43,702 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for 3 days a week, however, we actively support requests for flexible working.
This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Integrated Modeller and Code Developer, you will play a pivotal role in exploiting and carrying out development and validation of the latest models within state-of-the-art plasma initiation and integrated modelling codes against experiments, and identifying, proposing and integrating improved models through collaborations. The postholder will also support, propose and conduct plasma modelling and design scenario studies on plasma initiation and plasma transport in a range of existing and future tokamaks, e.g. MAST-U, JET, JT-60SA, ITER, DEMO and the conceptual high-performance spherical tokamak, STEP.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
A demonstrably strong scientific and technical aptitude is very important, and we will consider favourably candidates with desire, willingness and potential to learn new skills and to grow into new areas of physical and technical knowledge.
* PhD-level knowledge of tokamak physics or equivalent work experience
* Ability to conduct research using tokamak plasma initiation or integrated modelling tools
* High-quality outputs in areas very relevant to the role, i.e. track record of publications and/or software outputs in one or more of:
o Plasma breakdown modelling
o Plasma burn-through modelling
o Plasma current ramp-up modelling
o Core turbulent transport models (quasilinear and/or gyrokinetic/gyrofluid codes)
o Edge plasma transport or plasma exhaust transport modelling
o Heat and particle sources
o MHD / ELM / pedestal modelling
o Integrated modelling of tokamak plasma scenarios
* Knowledge of good software engineering practices and Quality Assurance systems
o including version control, profiling tools, testing frameworks and debuggers
* Ability, willingness, and ideally experience of developing software within a team and working on and understanding large legacy codes written by others.
* Ability to interact with physicists and understand their requirements.
* Good oral and written communication skills.
* The post-holder must be a good team player with an outward-facing work ethos, as they will work closely with scientists from around the world.
Additional Information
A full list of our benefits can be found here
UKAEA’s mission is clean energy for all, and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce. We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM, including women and individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, while ensuring all appointments are made on merit.
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Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.