Job Description The Role Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. Project title: Engineering simulation capability development for fusion reactor multi-physics loading conditions. In this project, you will gain experience as an engineering analyst in the simulation research team. Their time will be split between the STEP electromagnetic (EM) loads team, and various other projects. The STEP EM loads work involved developing and testing simulation methods for calculating the forces and torques exerted upon in-vessel components by electromagnetic effects. These methods are then used by design teams to calculate the loads against which their components are designed. The work involves finite element (FE) modelling, mathematical / physics modelling, engineering analysis, software development, verification and validation, and the balance between these aspects can be tailored to the student's strengths and interests. The other projects you will be involved in are concerned with multi-physics system simulation. This is where an engineering system (tokamak, validation test rig, etc.) is broken down into sub-systems, simulations are created for each bit of physics / each sub-system, the computational complexity is reduced through machine learning methods, and the reduced models are coupled to make a system simulation. This enables validation of the underlying models, uncertainty quantification, robust optimisation, and much more besides. The work involves understanding the target systems, creating high fidelity models to collect training data, creating reduced order models, coupling the reduced models, and verifying and analysing the results. This placement will be based primarily on site at the UKAEA Rotherham site. Some hybrid working may be possible as well.