Accelerator Physicist — Beam Dynamics & Front-End (FFA)

StandardX; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Cover

Life Assurance 4x salary

Cycle to Work Scheme

EMI Share Options

Job summary

StandardX is developing the UK's first isotope refinery, a single proprietary platform that can be deployed anywhere and produce the full portfolio of critical isotopes at scale.

Join a world-class team of nuclear engineers and doctoral-level scientists to advance beam dynamics for a high-power FFA ring and its front end, while collaborating with engineers across disciplines. This on-site role in Greater London offers cutting-edge challenges and impact.

Qualifications

• PhD in Accelerator Physics or closely related field.
• Experience in accelerator physics modelling, design, simulation, commissioning, or operation.
• Demonstrated experience simulating transverse and longitudinal beam dynamics.
• Solid theoretical understanding of beam dynamics, lattice design and accelerator physics.
• Proactive, rigorous, and hands-on problem-solver with clear technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of the accelerator front end (IS, LEBT, RFQ and MEBT).
• Support the design and development of a high-power FFA ring.
• Perform beam dynamics simulations (space charge, nonlinear effects, tune behaviour, halo formation).
• Conduct error studies to define tolerances, error budgets and beam quality requirements.
• Collaborate with magnet engineers, RF specialists, and mechanical engineers for coherent system design.
• Participate in accelerator commissioning, including beam measurements and comparison with simulations.
• Help identify and solve beam-related challenges during commissioning and operation.
• Contribute ideas to push performance, safety and innovation further.
• Support machine learning projects to improve beam operation.

Skills

Beam dynamics modelling

Simulation experience

Communication

Problem solving

Python programming

Git version control

Education

PhD in Accelerator Physics

Tools

Zgoubi

OPAL

MAD-X

TraceWin

Parmteq

RFQGen

Python

Git

Job description

StandardX is developing the UK's first isotope refinery, a single proprietary platform that can be deployed anywhere and produce the full portfolio of critical isotopes at scale.

Join a world-class team of nuclear engineers and doctoral-level scientists to advance beam dynamics for a high-power FFA ring and its front end, while collaborating with engineers across disciplines. This on-site role in Greater London offers cutting-edge challenges and impact.