Physics graduate

Pay in the destination countries

Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.

What does the day look like?

Your day is mostly spent at a workstation. You write and execute input decks for particle transport, burnup, and neutron flux, running Monte Carlo simulations using MCNP6, GEANT4, OpenMC, SCALE (TSUNAMI, KENO), and Serpent 2. You also calibrate detectors like HPGe, sodium iodide scintillators, and helium-3 proportional counters, processing raw gamma and neutron spectral data using Python (NumPy, SciPy, PyNE), MATLAB, and ROOT in Linux Bash environments.

Only 15% of your day is hands-on experimental work with beamlines or reactor probes. The remaining 85% is routine: 50% is spent debugging simulation decks and fixing code compilation errors in Linux, 25% on technical memos, QA paperwork, and nuclear safety case compliance checks, and 10% on administrative safety meetings. Standard hours are 37 to 40 hours per week (Monday through Friday, 08:30 to 17:00). Shift work or 12-hour coverage applies only during designated accelerator beam-time runs or research reactor monitoring campaigns, which is rare at entry level.

Where does this lead?