Materials Science Jobs in Woking

• Lincoln
• £28,000 – £32,000 pa
• Permanent

Operating heat treatment furnaces and associated equipment to detailed engineering specifications, monitoring temperatures, cycles and quality standards, and recording production data accurately. The role supports continuous improvement and process efficiency within a specialist manufacturing environment, with a structured training programme for developing specialist engineering skills.

Heat Treatment Furnaces · Forklift · Overhead Crane

• Abingdon
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £48,290 pa
• Permanent

Develops advanced HPC models to predict deformation and irradiation effects in metallic and ceramic materials for future fusion energy systems. Applies density functional theory, atomistic force fields and finite element simulations on national and international supercomputers, working within the EPSRC/EUROfusion programme and collaborating internationally.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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

Lead fatigue and damage tolerance analysis for outer wing structures, acting as approval signatory and progressing toward full structural authorisation. Define and validate certification methods against CS-25 standards, liaise with EASA and Chief Engineering, and drive digital sizing tools and weight-saving initiatives. Also mentors engineers in first-principles stress analysis within a multidisciplinary wing analysis team.

ISAMI · GISEH · Nastran +1

• 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
• 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

• Lancaster
• £33,002 – £37,694 pa

Support a collaborative materials science project developing materials for sustainable agriculture, using preparation, characterisation and in vitro biological testing to study how material properties affect plant interactions. The post sits in a rapidly expanding chemistry department with state-of-the-art labs, and involves prototype validation, biological testing and implementing safe systems in a chemistry laboratory.

• Halesowen
• On-site
• £35,000 – £40,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Responsible for process control of forge and heat treatment, investigating mechanical test failures and producing rework plans, and monitoring failure trends to implement corrective actions. Also performs metallography, technical contract reviews, material selection and heat treatment procedure creation, while providing customer technical support and training to cross-functional departments.

• High Wycombe
• Permanent

Acts as a technical expert for Electron Microscopy and EDS/EDX microanalysis, supporting product development, customer demonstrations and application data generation. Works across Product Management, R&D, Applications, Sales and Marketing, delivering training and market insight while engaging customers in semiconductors, materials, metallurgy and batteries.