Integrated modeller and scenario developer

This role can be based at can 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.

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 scenario developer, you will play a pivotal role in exploiting JETTO core transport code and its integrated models and testing new or upgraded models in JETTO as they become available. 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Developing predictive simulations of scenarios for STEP.
• Validating predictive capability of integrated models against experimental data and identifying regimes and regions where model improvement is required.
• Understanding experimental results relating to transport and confinement, e.g. observed confinement scalings, impurity accumulation, variations in observed plasma performance.
• Performing core-edge coupled simulations with JINTRAC

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
• Experience and knowledge of physics integrated modelling

Desirable (any of these would be an asset):

Experience and knowledge of at least one area of tokamak plasma modelling, one or more of:

• Core turbulent transport models (quasilinear and/or gyrokinetic/gyrofluid codes).
• Edge plasma transport or plasma exhaust transport modelling.
• Heating and current drive, particle sources.
• MHD / ELM / pedestal modelling.
• Demonstrated programming skills in Python, C, and Fortran. Knowledge of software development tools and good coding practices

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.