Vacancies

Do you have the skills to be part of NPL's role in giving the UK a world-leading position in the rapidly developing quantum technology market? We have an opportunity for a talented individual to join our expanding atomic magnetometry team to do just this. We are looking for a physicist or engineer with a physics background to contribute to a wide spectrum of projects that will deve...

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. At NPL, we touch ordinary lives in extraordinary ways and you could too. As a specialist in your field, we'll be looking to you stretch our capability and take our research ...

You'll plan and deliver a number of technical activities to take our research to the next level. As we're pushing boundaries all the time, we'll expect you to acquire new knowledge to find solutions to advance our research. It's your responsibility to share your learnings so that we all benefit, mentoring those with less experience than you. Equally, if commercial opportunities arise from ...

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. And we're finding more ways than ever in which to put our products and services to g...

A member of the Transformation and Change Team, responsible for leading stakeholder communications and engagement activities related to Project Rainbow and driving business change activity required to ensure operational readiness and the successful implementation of Project Rainbow outcomes. Key Responsibilities: Support the definition of the business change approach and ope...

NPL are implementing a Digital Modernisation transformation programme with the following 5 key strategic themes: Digital Customer Experience – ensuring our engagement and delivery to customers, partners, and stakeholders is digital by default Digitally Enabled Organisation – ensuring our organisation harnesses the benefits of digital technology and uses d...

You'll plan and deliver a number of technical activities to take our research to the next level. As we're pushing boundaries all the time, we'll expect you to acquire new knowledge to find solutions to advance our research. It's your responsibility to share your learnings so that we all benefit, mentoring those with less experience than you. Equally, if commercial opportunities arise fro...

PhD Vacancy The Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) at The University of Surrey and the metrology for Medical Physics Group (MEMPHYS) at The National Physical Laboratory are pleased to offer a PhD opportunity in the field of medical imaging. The studentship is part of a unique partnership with Alliance Medical Limited – Europe's largest independent provider o...

PhD Vacancy This Industrial PhD project will be supervised by Dr Alessandro Casaburi, a Lecturer in the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow and Dr Jonathan Williams, a Principal Research Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), Teddington. The student will design, fabricate and test innovative superconducting readout electronics aimed at control and reado...

Could you design, assemble and test an engineering package that would enable an ultra-stable laser to withstand the rigours of a launch into space? We have an exciting opportunity for an engineer to join our expanding team within NPL's Time & Frequency Department to do just this. You will work closely with our scientists and engineers to develop high specification instrumentation. Specifica...