Staff Engineer, Materials Nexus
£65-100k
Salary dependant on experience + Stock Options (pre-series A)
Advanced material discovery & design
Job no longer available
Advanced material discovery & design
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£65-100k
Salary dependant on experience + Stock Options (pre-series A)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To discover new materials that significantly reduce the environmental, economical, and social cost of items critical to our society.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in large multi-developer environments, with an extreme eye for detail and passion for building functional, scalable, market-ready products
- Python & JavaScript - excellent grasp of their advanced language features and development best-practices
- Software engineering principles, including design patterns, data structures, and algorithms, and their optimal usage in different environments
- Linux environments and terminal interfaces
- API design and best-practices
Desirable
- High-performance languages such as C++, or Julia
- DevOps and deploying software in cloud environments
- Some understanding of containerisation technology (e.g., Docker)
What the job involves
- You will play a leading role in championing software excellence and scalability so our scientific platform can make greater change at an even faster rate
- Your role will span across the breadth of the technical team, from quantum calculations to ML tools to front-end development
- Work alongside our cutting-edge scientific team to drive scalability of the platform
- Mentor and guide other members of the tech team to help them develop their software development skills, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth
- Identify opportunities for process improvement across the tech team, maximising our impact potential
- Implement robust quality assurance processes to ensure the accuracy, reliability, performance, and security of our software
- Champion software development best practices, including: thorough code review, comprehensive testing strategies, detailed documentation, architectural design, and promoting a culture of engineering excellence
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, and assess their potential impacts on our roadmap
Application process
- First step: 30 minute video call with Julia, our People Associate, to learn a bit more about you and what you are looking for!
- Second step: 45 minute video call with our technical team - get to know each other & short coding assessment
- Third step: In-person interview at our London offices to meet the rest of the team - this will also include a code and system design activity
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Achieving net-zero goals will be impossible without advances in material technology to drive electrification and lower the costs of renewable energy. Previously discovered advanced materials, such as titanium, have revolutionised the aviation, transport, medical and aviation industries, but the environmental, economic, and social costs involved in many equally powerful breakthroughs mean that many next-generation materials are not able to be utilised.
Material Nexus aims to accelerate the change to net-zero materials, providing an AI model that greatly reduces the need for physical testing to discover new materials. This allows businesses to develop advanced materials without the years of research typically involved in making a new material ecologically and economically viable for the market.
With seed funding secured, the company has begun scaling its R&D and marketing efforts. In the longer term, Material Nexus aims to build a facility where it can sustainably produce the materials it discovers and is eyeing an eventual expansion to the USA. Going forward, its focus on net-zero materials is certain to be welcomed by materials designers and manufacturers looking to play their part in the fight against climate change.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$2.7m
SEED
Total funding: $2.7m
Company benefits
- 📈 Stock Options: We value our employees and you to share in the success of the company. You will be a vested partner in our future achievements
- 🌴 Flexible holidays: 33 days annual leave/year which can be used on UK public holidays or on more convenient days for you
- 💚 Fully covered comprehensive private healthcare and mental health support
- 🎂 Your birthday day off: Enjoy a well-deserved day off to celebrate and recharge
- ✈️Work abroad: Travel the world while you get your job done - see family, or simply explore a new place!
- 🐣 Enhanced Family & Carers leave to ensure you get that quality time in when you need it
- 💻 Flexible work arrangements: our shared office space in Shoreditch is here to help foster collaboration and community. Most of the team is in 2-3 days a week, but we are happy to discuss alternatives as necessary
- 📒 Continuous learning and growth: We’re pioneers in our field, so you'll be encouraged to expand your knowledge and skills in new areas too
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Jonathan Bean
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside this role, they continue to mentor at the Royal Academy of Engineering and teach Materials Science for Engineers at Trinity College, Cambridge and is a Visiting Fellow at London South Bank University.
Jon Pillow
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Senior Principal Scientist at CDT and Opsys with over 45 patent applications. Received their PhD in Chemistry from the University of Oxford.
Robert Forrest
(Co-Founder & CTO)Holds a PhD in Materials Science from Cambridge. Pioneered the application of machine learning in materials science specifically focussed on amorphous materials while at Cambridge.
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