Senior Integrated Modeller and Code Developer

This is based at Culham, Oxfordshire

This permenant role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

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 Senior Integrated Modeller and Code Developer, you will play a pivotal role in:

• Lead, propose, and carry out projects to exploit the JINTRAC core-SOL-divertor coupled transport code and its integrated models for e.g. JET, MAST-U, ITER, JT-60SA, and STEP:
• Develop viable whole-discharge tokamak operational scenarios;
• Perform predictive and interpretive core transport simulations for tokamak plasmas using codes like JETTO with state-of-the-art transport models (e.g. TGLF, NEO, and other advanced models)

Additional Responsibilities:

• Perform core-edge coupled simulations with JINTRAC and analyse the results;
• Exploit codes to understand existing experimental results relating to transport and confinement, validate new physics models, and perform cross-code benchmarks;
• Contribute to the advancement of core/edge transport codes, and work with code developers to develop/implement advanced tokamak physics and transport models;

Requirements

Essential Requirements:

• PhD (or equivalent experience) in plasma physics.
• Experience in running integrated simulation codes within different frameworks and on different platforms.
• Experience in using simulations for code validation and tokamak plasma scenario development.
• Excellent 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 [https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/>

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.