Materials Science Jobs in Woking

• Royston
• On-site
• £45,613 – £55,130 pa
• Shift work

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.

Pumps · Mechanical Seals · GRP +7

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

Lead static stress analysis for Outer Wing structures, acting as an approval signatory and defining certification methods to CS-25 standards. Serve as technical focal point to EASA and Chief Engineering while mentoring engineers and deploying automated sizing tools such as ISAMI, GISEH and Nastran/HyperWorks.

ISAMI · GISEH · Nastran +1

• Shildon
• £47,000 – £59,000 pa
• Senior

Hands-on formulation role developing, testing and optimising chemical formulations for advanced materials and surface technologies, then scaling them from lab batches through pilot trials to full production. Involves lab experimentation, physical and performance testing, root cause analysis and close work with production and engineering teams on scale-up, raw material selection and new product introduction.

• Chester
• Hybrid
• Entry level
• Permanent

Join the Wing Analysis Engineering Team at Broughton, working alongside the wing assembly lines to resolve fatigue and damage tolerance problems for wing structures, modifications and non-conformances. You will approve F&DT deliverables, steer technical scope for engineers and suppliers, and collaborate with digitalisation teams on automation and optimisation tools using ISAMI, GISEH and Hyperworks/Nastran.

ISAMI · GISEH · Hyperworks +1

• New York, United States
• Hybrid
• US$240,000 – US$300,000 pa
• Director · manages people

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.

Kubernetes · AWS · Azure +6

• Stockton-on-Tees
• Hybrid

Operate and improve Product Stewardship systems such as WERCS Studio, resolving data integrity and flow issues across source systems and integrations. Apply chemical knowledge to validate regulatory, hazard and product data, working with master data owners and IT teams, and acting as the main interface with the WERCS vendor.

WERCS Studio · WERCS

• Gloucester
• Hybrid

Join the Materials & Processes Laboratory team supporting the supply chain for landing gear parts, monitoring raw material suppliers, forgers and foundries. You will review metallic supplier performance, implement improvement plans for steel, aluminium and titanium, conduct technical audits and support new supplier qualification, with scope for hands-on mechanical testing and forensic investigation.

• Inchinnan
• Mid-level

Mechanical Integrity & Analysis Engineers provide analytical expertise underpinning safe, reliable aerospace products across design, development and certification. Work spans structural and stress analysis, whole engine modelling, rotordynamics, vibration, lifing, durability and fatigue assessment within the Defence business. Requires a mechanical or aerospace engineering background and knowledge of fatigue, fracture mechanics or structural assessment.

• Solihull
• Mid-level

Analytical engineering role supporting the Defence business across product design, development and certification. Work covers structural and stress analysis, whole engine modelling, rotordynamics, vibration, critical parts lifing, durability and fatigue assessment, ensuring components perform safely in demanding operating environments. Requires a mechanical or aerospace engineering background and knowledge of fatigue, fracture mechanics or structural assessment.

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Builds and operates the software layer connecting an AI materials-discovery platform to partner laboratories worldwide. Designs APIs and data models for lab-to-cloud exchange, integrates instruments, robotic platforms and LIMS/ELN systems, and hardens integrations with retries, queueing and monitoring. Works in a small multidisciplinary team of materials scientists, ML and software engineers.

FastAPI · Pydantic · LIMS +5

• 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

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

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.

Kubernetes · AWS · GCP +7

• London
• Hybrid
• Lead · manages people
• Permanent

Lead the Forward Deployed Engineering function, building and hiring a team while delivering complex CurieOS deployments hands-on. Write production code, design architectures and integrations across simulation, digital twins, lab instruments and CAD/PLM systems, embedding with customer R&D teams from discovery through production adoption.

CurieOS

• London
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Embed with customer teams to deploy CurieOS, an AI operating system for industrial R&D, writing production code, designing architectures and building integrations across simulation, digital twins, lab instruments and CAD/PLM systems. Own engagements from technical discovery through production deployment and adoption, tracking KPIs and feeding field signal back to platform engineering.

CurieOS