Senior Exhaust Physicist

UK Atomic Energy Authority

📍 culham, england, United-Kingdom

Full-time Engineering Posted June 15, 2026

Job Description

The salary for this role is £57,117(inclusive of a Specialist Allowance) . Onsite working is expected for 3 days each 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

As a Senior Exhaust Physicist , you will use primarily 3D physical models to describe the turbulent behaviour of plasma at the periphery of tokamak devices. Key duties include modelling of turbulent transport in the scrape-off layer (SOL) and validating simulation results and theoretical findings against MAST-U experimental measurements, as well as other machines and predictive modelling of future machines.

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