42 Vacancies

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department seek a Configuration Manager with recent experience in configuration of hardware, software and documentation . This is an exceptional opportunity to join the global authority in precision timing at a defining moment for UK digital infrastructure. Backed by a government investment of £180 million in the National Tim...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking a Change Specialist with experience in in delivering transformational behavioural change in major programmes. You will be joining our team at an exciting time - we maintain the UK's National Time Scale, UTC (NPL), and are currently developing a new resilient Time Scale facility that will underpin UK Digital Infrastructure. Th...

Put simply, we set the standards by which everything is measured. In doing so, the National Physical Laboratory is helping to combat issues on a global scale such as climate change, curing diseases and the development of cutting-edge communications technology. Yet none of this would be possible without the dedication of everyone here. Role focus As a People...

This is an exciting time to join NPL as the organisation embraces the mission and opportunity to provide the measurement capability that underpins the UK's prosperity and quality of life. NPL's vision is to deliver extraordinary impact from excellent science and engineering as an exemplary national laboratory. This mission reaffirms the pivotal role the organisation plays in supporti...

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) are emerging as a transformative platform for next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) hardware, enabling ultrafast, energy-efficient optical data processing. However, as PICs scale to the densities required for AI acceleration, thermal effects become a critical bottleneck, limiting performance, reliability and efficiency. This challenge prese...

Responsible for shaping and embedding a strong security culture in cyber, physical and people across NPL. Lead initiatives that influence behaviour and reduce human-related risk in compliance with regulatory and customer requirement, ensuring all colleagues have the appropriate level of awareness, knowledge, and skills to manage security risks in alignment with our programmes security values...

We invite applications for a PhD on scalable quantum technology and electrical metrology, co-supervised by the University of Strathclyde and the Quantum Electrical Metrology Group at National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the UK's National Measurement Institute based in Teddington West London. The project focuses on cryogenic electronics at the quantum/classical interface. This is a k...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department is seeking a Software Test Engineer with expertise in Unix/Linux software testing and quality assurance . This is an exceptional opportunity to join the global authority in precision timing at a defining moment for UK digital infrastructure. Backed by a government investment of £180 million in the National Timing Centre (N...

Who sets the standards, to ensure that anything that can be measured is done so with consistency and reliability? We do. Through our vital research, the National Physical Laboratory is helping support scientific and commercial innovations, international trade, environmental protection and health and wellbeing. At NPL, we touch ordinary lives in extraordinary ways and you could too. At ...

Who sets the standards, to ensure that anything that can be measured is done so with consistency and reliability? We do. Through our vital research, the National Physical Laboratory is helping support scientific and commercial innovations, international trade, environmental protection and health and wellbeing. T o achieve our ambitions, we need to continually evolve. As a Project M...

The Department of Data Science and AI is looking for a researcher to contribute to our work on a wide variety of projects across all national challenges including life science and health, and climate and environmental sciences Excitingly, this role offers scope to develop new collaborations across NPL, government, industry, and academia. You'll enjoy developing, applying and sharing knowle...

NPL's Biometrology group is seeking an experienced postdoctoral researcher for a Higher Scientist in Biomedical Optics based in Teddington to plan and deliver a number of technical activities to take our research to the next level. This full-time position comes with a generous salary and benefits package. The group is a multidisciplinary team of biologists, chemists, physicists and...