Materials Science Jobs

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Owns a set of partner labs and their integration onto an AI materials-discovery platform, translating experimental workflows, instruments and LIMS/ELN data into engineering requirements. Leads technical discovery and onboarding through to first closed-loop campaigns, and works with ML researchers on Bayesian optimisation campaigns that respect real lab constraints.

Python · LIMS · ELN +3

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior
• Permanent

Designs and builds agentic frameworks that orchestrate closed-loop scientific workflows, connecting agents to ML models, simulation engines and databases. Applies Bayesian optimization and active learning for experimental design, and builds evaluations for agent planning and decision-making. Works closely with chemists and materials scientists on customer projects.

PyTorch · JAX · LLM

• Huntingdon
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

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.

AFM · Raman Spectroscopy

• Bath
• £38,784 – £46,049 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role designing and investigating highly selective, robust catalysts for ring-opening, ring-expansion and polycondensation of renewable monomers to create sustainable plastics with controlled architectures. Involves anaerobic Schlenk line and glove box work plus polymer characterisation by spectroscopy, GPC, DSC, TGA and tensile testing, within the SCHEMA Hub's cross-university and industrial network.

GPC · DSC · TGA +3

• Huntingdon
• On-site
• Entry level
• Permanent

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.

Graphene · 2D Materials · Semiconductor Processes

• Norwich
• £20,409 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Develops advanced NMR methods to determine the chain length and aggregation state of natural polymers, including seaweed-derived samples from an industrial partner. Involves experimental and pulse sequence design, mathematical modelling of polymer diffusion, and complementary techniques such as dynamic light scattering and chromatography, in collaboration with the University of Manchester.

NMR · Size-Exclusion Chromatography · Dynamic Light Scattering +1

• Birmingham
• £35,000 – £40,000 pa
• Permanent

Support forging and heat treatment processes, investigate mechanical test failures and produce rework plans, and provide metallurgical guidance to production, quality, estimating and customer teams. The role also involves metallographic preparation and analysis, technical contract reviews, procedure development and support for quality investigations, R&D and customer audits at a specialist heavy engineering forger.

• Hertfordshire
• On-site
• £30 – £32 ph
• Mid-level
• Contract

Responsible for REACh obsolescence across current and legacy product ranges, investigating materials and process alternatives and recommending replacements against technical specifications. Day-to-day work includes reviewing drawings, leading qualification processes, writing investigation reports and providing technical support to supply chain, quality and procurement in a cross-functional aerospace team.

• Manchester
• On-site
• £50,000 – £60,000 pa
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Oversee and provide technical support across all departments, taking technical management of production processes in a foundry or metallurgy setting. The role offers autonomy to drive continuous improvements hands-on, with a Monday to Friday days pattern and an early Friday finish.

• London
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Permanent

Develop fast, accurate machine learning force fields distilled into lightweight student potentials for high-throughput Monte Carlo simulation, then integrate them into the in-house kUPS framework. The role involves curating training datasets, running validation campaigns against classical force-field baselines, and profiling the MC inner loop for throughput. Embedded in the chemistry team, with a publication on MLFF-driven GCMC for MOF screening.

kUPS · MLFFs · Equivariant Models +2

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Permanent

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.

Pydantic · JSON Schema · pymatgen +7