Materials Science Jobs

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.

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.

Johnson Matthey · Enfield · £44,113 – £60,345 pa

Maintain and improve electrical and instrumentation systems in a manufacturing environment, ensuring plant reliability and regulatory compliance. Perform fault diagnosis using technical drawings and schematics, conduct testing and calibration, and contribute to maintenance improvements. Work on-site with a focus on safety and engineering efficiency.

Airbus · Bristol · £50,000 – £55,000 pa

Hands-on role delivering structural tests across the test pyramid, from material coupons to large assemblies, including design and setup of control, data acquisition and hydraulic loading systems, equipment calibration and full-field measurement techniques such as digital image correlation. Involves advanced data analytics, supplier coordination and reporting to test leaders and customers, blending lab and office work within a transnational test technologies team.

Cambridge GaN Devices · Cambridge

Lead the packaging function for GaN power semiconductors, shaping strategy while remaining hands-on with wirebond, flip chip and embedded package design. The role involves multiphysics simulation, supplier development, qualification testing and cross-functional collaboration with chip design, applications and operations teams, plus international travel to subcontractors.

Cambridge GaN Devices · Cambridge

Design and layout of GaN power ICs using EDA tools, covering schematic capture, analog simulations, chip layout review, PEX and PLS. The role also involves wafer-level and packaged device testing, SPICE model development, and supporting patent and IP management within a fabless semiconductor R&D team.

Safran · Staverton Bridge

Ensures supplier capability, compliance and performance across a global aerospace supply chain, conducting product, process and system audits and supporting NPI and part transfers. Drives improvement using APQP, PFMEA, PPAP and Lean, working with raw material suppliers of titanium, high-strength steels and aerospace aluminium. Regular UK and international travel is required.

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority · Retford

Lead an integrated team of internal staff and external specialists as Technical Authority for the STEP tokamak's jointed REBCO high-temperature superconducting magnets, driving design convergence, remountable joints and technology demonstration. The role spans risk mitigation, cross-functional working with plasma, power and project teams, supply chain development and team growth as the programme moves toward construction.

Malvern Panalytical · Malvern, GB

Owns the global Particle Analyzer product portfolio, defining long-term strategy, roadmaps and investment cases while partnering with R&D, commercial and service teams on launches and lifecycle decisions. Involves portfolio governance, pricing and P&L support, plus 20-30% global travel for customer and conference engagement.

Malvern Panalytical · Malvern, GB

Deliver product demonstrations, sample analysis, method development and customer training across Malvern Panalytical and Micromeritics instruments such as the Mastersizer 3000, TriStar and AccuPyc. Support Sales and Account Managers with technical input while collaborating with Product Management and Customer Support. Requires fluent English and French, with German desirable.

Hexcel · Cambridge

Supports quality excellence across large-scale composite manufacturing, leading non-conformance investigations, root cause analysis and corrective actions while working with production, engineering, customers and suppliers. Handles audits, PPAP documentation, quality data and KPIs, and supplier quality activities, with scope to strengthen the QMS and drive continuous improvement.

synthomer · London

Leads the global Procurement PMO and governance framework, driving a value creation programme across roughly £1.7bn of spend with over 60 initiative owners. Partners with the VP Group Procurement and executive stakeholders on strategy, transformation, risk, budget and executive reporting, including the five-year roadmap.

synthomer · Harlow

Lead technical workstreams in R&D, designing and interpreting experimental programmes to develop polymer products, formulations and applications. Oversee laboratory, pilot plant and manufacturing trials, supporting scale-up, technology transfer and new product launches while troubleshooting production runs alongside manufacturing, commercial and regulatory teams.

Airbus · Bristol

Lead the Wing Analysis Engineering team's fatigue and damage tolerance work, acting as formal signatory for structural deliverables and verifying CS-25 compliance. Direct analysis packages across internal teams and suppliers, mentor junior stress engineers, and drive automation of stress workflows with PMT and digitalisation teams. Serves as the structural interface with Design, Manufacturing, Materials and Flight Physics.

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.

CuspAI · London

Builds and maintains a cloud-native ML infrastructure platform on Kubernetes, owning CI/CD pipelines, model registries, experiment tracking and deployment automation. Scales distributed GPU training for JAX and PyTorch workloads, manages multi-environment configs with Kapitan and Terraform, and drives platform reliability and cloud cost optimisation for research teams.