About You

This is a role supporting the development of our particle accelerator, working alongside senior physicists and engineers on beam dynamics for a high-power FFA ring and its accelerator front end (IS, LEBT, RFQ and MEBT).

About StandardX

There is infrastructure that defines eras. The steam engine made the industrial world possible. The internet created an economy. StandardX is building the next one.

Some of the most essential materials on Earth are also the rarest. Isotopes are the invisible backbone of modern life – curing cancer, keeping industrial systems resilient and fuelling the fusion reactors that will power the next century. Yet the infrastructure that produces them is ageing, fragmented and increasingly unable to keep up with demand.

We're a world-class team of nuclear engineers, deep tech operators and doctoral-level scientists building the UK's first isotope refinery: a single proprietary platform, deployable anywhere, producing the full portfolio of critical isotopes at scale – turning chronic scarcity into abundance.

Exceptional team. Massive problem. If you want to work on something that matters, really matters, this is it.

What You'll Do

• 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) appropriate to a non-scaling FFA lattice.
• Perform error studies to define tolerances, error budgets, and beam quality requirements.
• Collaborate with magnet engineers, RF specialists, and mechanical engineers to ensure coherent system design.
• Participate in accelerator commissioning, including beam measurements, analysis, 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 aimed at improving and facilitating beam operation.