46 Vacancies

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department seek an experienced and practicing Senior Scientist / Engineer. 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 o ur Critical National Infrastructure (C NI). This will address the risks associated with o...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Timing and Synchronisation Engineer with a background in Electronic Engineering. 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 our Critical National Infrastr...

We're seeking a Project Controller to work on NPL's National Timing Centre Delivery Programme (NTCDP). The NTCDP, led by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), is the UK's first nationally distributed time infrastructure. It aims to provide trusted and assured time and frequency distribution across the UK; reducing reliance on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) like GPS. Thi...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Software Engineer. 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 our Critical National Infrastructure. This will address the risks associated with our dependency o...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Senior Software Engineer with proven expertise in DevOps automation and container orchestration . 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 our Critical...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking a Senior Network Engineer with hands-on infrastructure and network design and implementation experience. 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 our Critical National Infrastr...

NPL are looking to recruit an Higher Scientist to work in the Ultrasound and Underwater Acoustics Group within the Underwater Acoustics area. We are looking for early career scientists and engineers, ideally with a graduate qualification in Physics, Acoustics or related discipline, with either experience in industry or academia or post-graduate qualification. As an Acoustical Higher Scienti...

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. At NPL, we touch ordinary lives in extraordinary ways and you could too. Research sits at the very core of our business. Th...

Roles Available: 1 Permanent and 1 Six month Fixed Term Contract , please confirm in your cover statement which role/s you're applying for. Whether you are 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 ...

NPL is seeking an experienced Higher Scientist based in Teddington to plan and deliver a number of technical activities to take our research to the next level. This a fixed term contract of 12 months to cover a period of maternity leave and comes with a generous salary and benefits package. Air Quality is a significant issue for UK and global societies; this is reflected in its incre...

Summary of the Role A unique opportunity to support NPL's strategic development as the organisation grows and evolves in a dynamic business environment. This is a newly created, high impact position and opportunity to support major transformation initiatives across the enterprise. Acting as deputy to the CFO, you will play a critical role in shaping and implementing the organ...

The project addresses the need for reliable, scalable verification and benchmarking schemes in quantum computing. It will address the verification of quantum computers in the regime that goes beyond what can be simulated with classical computers. Current challenges in quantum technology adoption stem from the lack of benchmarking methods at that scale and the inherent difficulty in validating qu...