Materials Science Jobs

37 jobs for “Chemical Engineering”

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Head of Chemistry

Yesterday

PhysicsX London

Owns chemistry capabilities end to end, setting technical direction and leading a team across capability-building and customer delivery. Couples atomistic and molecular insight into continuum and systems-scale models, spanning DFT, machine learning interatomic potentials and process simulation for industrial materials problems.

Hybrid

Senior Backend Engineer

2 months ago

Orbital Materials, Inc. London

Designs, builds and operates the core backend systems powering CurieOS, an AI operating system for materials science and hardware engineering. Work spans APIs, data pipelines, graph databases, event-driven architectures and cloud infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, observability and clean abstractions. Collaborates closely with ML researchers and domain scientists, and helps shape platform architecture as the team grows.

Hybrid Permanent

Application Scientist

2 weeks ago

CuspAI Cambridge

Owns scientific delivery of partner projects from scoping to results, acting as a key technical contact alongside programme managers. Applies simulation, machine learning, data-driven optimisation or experiments to design and steer discovery campaigns, and translates between experimental, computational and ML teams. Also builds cross-cutting capabilities such as validated workflows, harmonised data pipelines and agentic design campaigns.

Hybrid Permanent

Head of Operations

Last month

Hexcel Cambridge

Lead manufacturing operations at a Duxford composites site, ensuring safe, compliant production while driving Lean, Six Sigma and continuous improvement across quality, cost and delivery. Provide strategic leadership to Manufacturing, Quality, Training and Continuous Improvement teams, owning operational budgets, KPIs and the Quality Management System.

Head of Quality

Last week

Ceres Power Redhill

Lead the company-wide Quality Management System across R&D, laboratories, pilot and volume manufacturing, supply chain and commercial partner activities. Focus on chemical and advanced materials processing, supplier quality, process capability and product release, supporting NPI, technology transfer and manufacturing scale-up while building a multi-disciplinary quality team.

Simulation Engineer (CFD) - Large Physics Models

6 days ago

PhysicsX London

Build the simulation side of Large Physics Models, generating training data across fidelity levels and developing solvers in differentiable or GPU-native frameworks like JAX or Warp. Work in a research team alongside ML researchers, using commercial and open-source CFD tools to produce reference data and shape data-generation strategy.

Hybrid

Advanced Materials Engineer

Yesterday

Honeywell Aerospace Yeovil

This role involves supporting aerospace product design and manufacturing through advanced materials engineering expertise. The engineer will evaluate materials for compliance with environmental regulations like REACh and TSCA, qualify new materials, and ensure supply chain performance and process compliance. Key responsibilities include driving specification standardization, supporting supplier transitions, and leading root cause analysis for product or process issues in a regulated aerospace environment.

Hybrid Permanent

Labs Ecosystem Manager

2 weeks ago

CuspAI London

Builds and grows a global network of partner laboratories that synthesise materials designed with the company's AI platform, working with the Lab Integration team to enable automated, closed-loop discovery workflows. Acts as the operational bridge between partnership, science and AI research teams across Europe, the USA and APAC, and channels lab feedback into platform development priorities.

Hybrid Permanent

Systems Engineer

2 weeks ago

Ceres Power Horsham

Systems Engineers define requirements and verification plans for solid oxide fuel cell and electrolyser stacks and systems, working from component level through to complete system design. The role involves system architecture, FMEA risk tracking, test planning and data analysis, HAZOP studies and mass/energy balance work, collaborating with global partners and providing technical leadership across work packages.

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Mechanical Technician

Yesterday

Johnson Matthey Royston £45,613 – £55,130 pa

Shift-based mechanical maintenance role on a top-tier COMAH site, covering planned and reactive work on pumps, seals, valves, vessels, agitators and pipework. Involves fault finding, fabrication, installation and commissioning, working with LOTO and permit systems on high-hazard chemical plant.

On-site Shift-work
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Electrical and Multi- Skilled Technician

10 months ago

Johnson Matthey Royston £43,765 – £60,345 pa

This role involves maintaining and improving electrical and instrumentation systems in a manufacturing environment, focusing on fault diagnosis, plant reliability, and compliance. Technicians will use technical drawings and SAP CMMS for maintenance records, conduct inspections, testing, and calibration, and support safe, efficient plant operations. The position requires hands-on problem-solving in a regulated industrial setting.

On-site Permanent

Quality Manager

Last week

Huntsman Corporation Cambridge

Leads the Quality Control and Quality Assurance functions at a chemical manufacturing site, managing two direct reports and the wider QC/QA teams. Owns the ISO 9001 and AS/EN 9100 quality management system, product release governance, audits, customer complaints, non-conformance and root-cause/8D improvement work, sitting on the Site Leadership Team.

12 month internships 2027

Today

Paragraf Huntingdon

Undergraduate placement supporting research, production or electronics engineering teams, with hands-on work such as AFM and Raman characterisation, Hall measurements, device manufacture, and building electro-mechanical test systems. Interns design experiments, analyse process data, run environmental and EMC testing, and present findings at technology meetings. The programme is integrated with university requirements and based at a Cambridgeshire graphene electronics manufacturer.

On-site Permanent

Summer internship 2027

Today

Paragraf Huntingdon

Undergraduate placement supporting research, production or electronics engineering, with hands-on work on graphene and 2D material devices. Tasks span AFM and Raman characterisation, Hall measurements, device manufacture, test system design, prototyping and debugging, plus lab upkeep and documentation. Based at a Cambridgeshire manufacturer with R&D and production sites.

On-site Permanent
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Senior Computational Chemist, LNP Design

2 weeks ago

CureAge Therapeutics London

Lead the computationally guided design of a lipid nanoparticle delivery platform, applying chemical and biophysical principles to optimise LNP composition and formulation. Use AI-enabled chemistry, cheminformatics, predictive models and molecular modelling to prioritise formulation components, working closely with the experimental team and founding team in a small start-up.

Hybrid Permanent Part-time

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