Senior R&D Engineer – Sensors

Jobleads-UK • Abingdon, England • Posted June 15, 2026

About the Role

Senior R&D Engineer – Sensors

Senior R&D Engineer – Sensors. This role provides technical and project leadership across key UKAEA programmes, supporting the delivery of critical technology development activities and enabling informed engineering decisions.

The salary for this role is £57,117 (inclusive of a Specialist Allowance). Onsite working is expected for a minimum of 3 days per week. This role can be based at any of the following sites: Culham, Oxfordshire.

Employees are required to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions and possibly a search of open source data.

Key Accountabilities

  1. Lead multidisciplinary teams to develop and execute R&D strategies from requirements through to commissioning for sensing technologies operating in complex, challenging, and uncertain environments, including prototyping, testing, verification and val...