FOSTER Summer Placement - Magnet Modelling + Visualization

The FOSTER programme's enhanced internship scheme provides students an opportunity to gain work experience within the growing UK fusion industry. The FOSTER programme is looking to build the talent pipeline into the industry. Over the past three years, 83 students have participated in placements in 20 host organisations around the UK, with many receiving offers of employment after their graduation.

Tokamak Energy are fully committed to building talent within the fusion industry and excited to offer internship opportunities across our business. The placement will give you valuable experience working within a commercial fusion company alongside talented experts within the field, building both your technical and business knowledge.    

Placements at Tokamak Energy also give students the opportunity to regularly collaborate not only with our employees, but crucially with other members of your cohort. We recognise the value of creating a supportive learning environment to enable you to explore the subjects and skills that you are passionate about. This is your chance to dive into the world of Fusion Energy and help shape the future of sustainable energy!

We have a range of in-house magnet modelling tools developed in MATLAB. A core requirement of the tools is to pre-process the user requirements and simulation setup and then post-process the results of the simulations. For this we need to develop our 3D CAD viewing capabilities to allow for interactive development of the magnet simulation and then thorough interrogation of the results post-simulation.

This functionality will be developed in MATLAB to avoid 3rd party toolboxes and allow future expansion and maintainability.

Particularly successful interns will have a chance to develop the core simulation tools and add in thermal, electrical-magnetic or mechanical functionality into the simulation.

In this role, you will:

• Help develop the 3D visualization code for magnet modelling:

• Create methods for user selection, alteration or querying of 3D geometry.
• Create an interactive results viewing suite that allows for time-domain scalar and vector results to be clearly visualized, saved and high-resolution images and videos created.
• Develop automated tests for any functionality created
• Develop user-documentation to explain

Requirements

• Studying a relevant Degree or Masters : Physics, Engineering, Maths, Computer Science or Science degree with a computational emphasis
• Confident with the MATLAB coding language
• Ideally some knowledge of Engineering + Multi-Physics simulations
• Ideally some level of coding version control, e.g. GIT
• Ideally good grounding in geometry and vector calculus
• Able to develop functionality to meet user-requirements
• Appreciation of software development ideals such as scalability, maintainability and extensibility
• Good communication skills with ability to work collaboratively with team members 
• Able to articulate problems and confidence to raise issues that are affecting development  

Benefits

• 6 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• The placement has a maximum duration of 10 weeks.
• The salary is £23,809 per annum, pro-rated and paid monthly.
• Accommodation cover aren't offered for the student placements.
• Cohort experience
• This is a fantastic opportunity to get a closer look at what we do, the work environment, and the exciting roles we have available.
• Advert closes 31 March 2025.
• Please check you are eligible via this link on the UKAEA website: https://careers.ukaea.uk/early-careers/foster-summer-internship/