Materials Science Jobs

Johnson Matthey · Royston

Work within Johnson Matthey’s Engineering and Maintenance teams at the Royston site, supporting sustainable technology and precious metals operations in a safety-focused manufacturing environment. Contribute to refining, recycling, and advanced materials production while applying technical problem-solving and continuous improvement. The role offers hybrid working and involvement in global sustainability initiatives.

PhysicsX · Singapore

Build physical foundation models for industrial engineering, scaling training to large datasets on multi-GPU cloud compute. Turn research prototypes into robust, optimised implementations, own research workstreams, and translate results into reusable libraries and tooling alongside scientists and customers.

Johnson Matthey · Royston

Designs, maintains, and troubleshoots PLC and SCADA systems for industrial plant operations, with a focus on software development, control logic, and integration within live production environments. Supports process safety and reliability through alarm management, system upgrades, and participation in HAZOP studies. Works on both new installations and modifications to existing control infrastructure using platforms like Omron, Allen-Bradley, Wonderware, and Ignition.

PhysicsX · New York, United States · US$240,000 – US$300,000 pa

Leads regional deployment engineering for a physics AI platform, owning end-to-end delivery into customer-owned infrastructure and acting as primary technical contact for CIOs and CTOs. Combines executive engagement with hands-on work on Kubernetes, cloud and infrastructure-as-code deployments, while hiring and scaling the regional team. Requires navigating regulated, high-security and on-prem/HPC environments.

CuspAI · London

Owns the full lifecycle of data-rich tools, services and web applications, building scalable ingestion, processing and cleaning pipelines for structured and unstructured materials-science data. Develops Python APIs and UIs for querying, exporting and visualising data, with orchestration, governance and containerised deployment using Docker and Kubernetes.

CuspAI · London

Owns the design of scientific data representations, schemas and ingestion pipelines that turn heterogeneous external materials data into ML-ready assets. Works with AI researchers and materials scientists to harmonise experimental and computational data from partners, defining quality, validation, lineage and provenance frameworks.

ITM Power · Sheffield

Supports the industrialisation, ramp-up and continuous improvement of final assembly processes, including commissioning new equipment and defining assembly methods and SOPs. Works with automation, quality and supplier teams on FAT/SAT, process validation and data-driven stabilisation for high-volume PEM electrolyser manufacturing.

ITM Power · Sheffield

Lead supplier quality assurance and development across a PEM electrolyser manufacturer's supply chain, covering supplier approval, auditing, PPAP, FAT and FAIR activities. Drive 8D investigations, KPI-based performance reviews and continuous improvement, working closely with Engineering, Purchasing and Operations and travelling regularly to supplier sites.

Oxford Instruments · High Wycombe

Designs analogue, digital and low-noise circuitry for precision detectors and acquisition systems in electron microscopy instrumentation. Works in a multidisciplinary R&D team on simulation, prototyping, embedded code and FPGA (VHDL) development, plus complex multilayer PCB design and transfer to manufacturing.