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Join NPL as a Senior Technical Analyst to play an integral role in medium sized projects for a major digital transformation programme. NPL has an ambitious vision for our digital transformation and the difference it can make to our work and real world impact. Underpinned by best-in-class infrastructure, the transformation will empower our workforce, unlock the potential in data, strengthen ...

The Time and Frequency Department at NPL is seeking an experimental physicist to contribute to our expanding portfolio of projects involving optical frequency combs. These sit at the heart of our programme to develop a new generation of optical atomic clocks in anticipation of a redefinition of the SI second. Femtosecond combs allow clocks operating at different frequencies and in differen...

The Optical Frequency Metrology (OFM) group at NPL invites applications from experimental physicists with a strong background in cold atom research to contribute to development of the next generation of neutral atom based optical lattice clocks. Optical lattice clocks are at the forefront of frequency metrology and embrace the latest developments in cold atom experimental techniques to push...

The Time & Frequency Department at NPL is recruiting an experimental physicist with a strong background in cold atom or ion research to contribute to our expanding programme of high-performance optical clocks. We have a position available in our ytterbium ion (Yb+) optical clock team, developing a world-leading frequency standard for applications in metrology and fundamental physics. Optic...

NPL is recruiting highly motivated scientists or engineers to support the growing hydrogen team within the Gas Metrology group at NPL Teddington (South West London). The Hydrogen team within NPL's Gas Metrology Group carry out world-leading measurement science research, disseminates best practice and delivers traceability and calibration of gas measurements to support decarbonisation of ene...

NPL is recruiting highly motivated scientists or engineers to support the growing hydrogen team within the Gas Metrology group at NPL Teddington (South West London). The Hydrogen team within NPL's Gas Metrology Group carry out world-leading measurement science research, disseminates best practice and delivers traceability and calibration of gas measurements to support decarbonisation of ene...

This role is a Fixed Term Contract until Sept 2022 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 th...

Whether you're talking about length, mass, time, temperature, electric current, amount or the brightness of light, the National Physical Laboratory sets the standards by which these things are all measured. Our range of products and services need to be commercially viable. As a Management Accounts Assistant you'll provide administrative and accounting support to the finance business partners wh...

NPL's cutting-edge measurement science has a positive impact in the real world. As the National Metrology Institute, NPL is making a difference in ways that help to combat issues on a global scale – such as tackling climate change, enabling earlier disease diagnosis and innovation in healthcare, and supporting the development of new digital technologies and infrastructure. A...

NPL's Electromagnetic and Electrochemical Technologies Group delivers world-leading measurement capability crucial to technology advancement in UK Industry. We work with the aerospace, automotive, energy and electronics sectors, in particular supporting the UK's net zero agenda. Our multi-disciplinary research and measurement addresses industry's needs across the product lifecycle, from suppor...