Jobs at United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Lead the design, delivery, and improvement of secure, resilient platforms and infrastructure across cloud, DevSecOps, MLOps, software delivery, and data workflows. Collaborate with scientists and engineers, drive automation and operational excellence, mentor colleagues, manage technical projects, and help establish modern software engineering practices. The role requires substantial production systems experience, programming proficiency, lifecycle management, and regular onsite presence.

Develop and maintain high-performance simulation tools for tokamak exhaust plasma modeling, initially using the Hermes-3 edge code. Apply numerical methods, software engineering, testing, versioning, and documentation practices; deploy models on supercomputers; validate tools against experiments; collaborate with plasma specialists and external partners; communicate findings; and mentor junior colleagues or doctoral students.

Leads complex public-sector procurement activities, especially IT procurements, from strategy and tendering through contract award and management. Provides commercial advice to senior stakeholders, negotiates agreements, monitors supplier performance, ensures compliance with UK procurement legislation, improves processes, and mentors commercial team members. The role requires regular onsite presence and supports the UK fusion energy programme.

Lead complex public-sector procurement activities, especially IT procurements, from strategy and tendering through contract award and supplier management. Provide commercial advice to senior stakeholders, ensure compliance with UK procurement legislation, negotiate agreements, monitor supplier performance, improve procurement processes, and mentor Commercial team members. The role supports major fusion-energy projects and requires regular onsite presence.

Manage the Tritium Analysis Laboratory’s safe and efficient operation, including radioactive sample preparation and analysis, equipment maintenance, method development, quality assurance, results reporting, staff supervision, competency programs, and UKAS accreditation activities. The role supports radioactive waste characterization and fusion energy programs while driving laboratory improvement and operational excellence.

Conduct integrated plasma modelling and scenario development using JINTRAC to analyze tokamak experiments, validate physics models, and perform cross-code benchmarks. Develop advanced core and edge transport models, contribute scientific software and research outputs through international fusion collaborations, publish findings, and guide students and early-career researchers.

Manage end-to-end public-sector procurement activities up to £1 million, including market engagement, tendering, negotiations, bid evaluation, contract award, and close-out. Advise project teams on commercial and contractual strategies, support contract management and dispute resolution, improve procurement systems and reporting, deliver training, engage suppliers, mentor junior staff, and contribute to category strategies, policies, and standard terms.

Supports financial planning, analysis, reporting, costing, budgeting, forecasting, month-end accounts, revenue recognition, reconciliations, audit processes, capital expenditure reporting, and financial controls. The role partners with project and senior managers, contributes to bids and contract pricing, prepares customer reports, and supports finance system and reporting improvements.

Owns end-to-end permitting and consenting workstreams for the STEP fusion programme, from strategy and regulatory applications through determination, implementation, and compliance. Builds relationships with regulators and government stakeholders, manages regulatory risks, supports audits and governance, maintains compliance records, and provides reporting to programme leadership. Leads and mentors a small team while developing regulatory frameworks, processes, and organisational capability.

Own and deliver complex engineering, science, technology, research, and infrastructure projects across their full lifecycle. Responsibilities include managing multidisciplinary teams, budgets, schedules, risks, suppliers, contracts, quality, compliance, stakeholder relationships, reporting, governance, and continuous improvement. Projects may involve design, manufacture, assembly, installation, and commissioning in support of fusion energy development.

Manage end-to-end public-sector procurement for projects up to £1 million, including market engagement, tendering, supplier negotiations, bid evaluation, contract award, and close-out. Advise project teams on commercial and contractual strategies, support contract management and dispute resolution, maintain procurement systems and reporting tools, and deliver procurement training. The role also involves stakeholder and supplier relationship management, mentoring junior staff, and contributing to category strategies, commercial policies, and standard terms.

Supports permitting and consenting strategies for a highly regulated fusion energy programme. Responsibilities include identifying required approvals, coordinating permit applications, engaging regulators and stakeholders, integrating compliance into project plans, monitoring consent obligations, maintaining registers, assessing risks, and developing consenting processes and best practices.

Maintains commercial data and databases, prepares reports, performs vendor compliance and purchase-to-pay assurance checks, supports users through helpdesk tickets and training, resolves system issues, manages shared inboxes, and acts as a superuser for contract management and eTendering systems.

Provides specialist metrology, inspection, alignment, and measurement expertise across fusion engineering facilities. Maintains procedures, software, hardware, calibration, asset information, and compliance with standards. Plans safe engineering activities, prepares risk assessments and method statements, supports procurement and departmental planning, and mentors apprentices, graduates, and team members. Requires substantial experience with engineering drawings, tolerances, large-scale 2D and 3D measurement, CAD, CAM, CMM, and specialist metrology systems.

Provides specialist administration, troubleshooting, and technical assurance for Solaris platforms supporting critical scientific and enterprise systems. Maintains Solaris environments, legacy applications, scripts, and system tooling; manages risks, vulnerabilities, audits, resilience, migrations, and decommissioning. The role also develops recovery and continuity plans, supports data extraction and system retirement, and communicates technical risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Own systems engineering delivery across complex multidisciplinary fusion-energy projects. Develop requirements, architectures, interfaces, integration plans, and verification evidence; coordinate validation activities; manage technical risks, dependencies, configuration, and change impacts; apply modeling and trade studies; communicate technical decisions to stakeholders; and mentor less experienced engineers.

Senior commercial lead accountable for commercial strategy across Integrated Project Teams. Responsibilities include procurement and contracting strategy, cost management, contract negotiation and administration, change control, dispute resolution, stakeholder engagement with government and executives, commercial risk management, and leading/mentoring commercial teams to deliver major construction and infrastructure portfolios.

Develop and operate Plasma Control Systems for MAST-U, STEP, and international fusion devices. Responsibilities include requirements definition, system specification, modelling, software implementation, testing, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and decommissioning. The role involves developing scientific software and real-time control tools, collaborating with fusion organizations, supporting control-room operations, managing tasks, documenting systems, and presenting technical work. Plasma physics, fusion research, and FPGA experience are desirable.

Leads procurement, negotiation, execution, and lifecycle management of complex, high-value engineering and service contracts for the STEP fusion programme. Oversees commercial teams, contract performance, risk mitigation, supplier relationships, compliance, dispute resolution, and continuous improvement. Collaborates with legal, technical, sourcing, and industry partners while developing strategic commercial frameworks and mentoring team members.

Supervise electrical work and multidisciplinary teams supporting safe operation, maintenance, installation, commissioning, and enhancement of site power and low-voltage control systems. Own electrical work packages, prepare engineering and safety documentation, review supplier deliverables, perform technical analysis and fault finding, ensure compliance with standards, and mentor apprentice electricians.