Vacancies

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking a Senior Network Engineer with hands-on infrastructure and network design and implementation experience. We are now working in a hybrid way, with a mix of remote and office working. We strive to offer a great work life balance - if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where b...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department are seeking an experienced and practicing Senior Software Engineer. We are now working in a hybrid way, with a mix of remote and office working. We strive to offer a great work life balance - if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where business possible. This will be dependent on t...

NPL are implementing a Digital transformation programme to become a world leading Digital NMI. We are looking for people who are passionate about science and who have experience of supporting an organisation through change. This role will initially be focusing on delivering new technology solutions into the laboratory, supporting scientists at the workbench. ...

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. We're looking for someone to join the IT Service Delive...

NPL-Imperial iCASE studentship: Characterising the performance of low loading electrodes for electrochemical hydrogen technologies Start date: September-October 2024 (flexible) Supervisors: Professor Anthony Kucernak (Imperial College London, ICL), Dr Graham Smith (NPL) This project is an Industrial-Case studentship based in the Chemistry department at ICL, with par...

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department seek a Configuration Manager with recent experience in configuration of hardware, software and documentation . We are now working in a hybrid way, with a mix of remote and office working. We strive to offer a great work life balance - if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where...

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. As we move forward, we're putting our customers at the heart of what we do. As a Customer Service Specialist, it's down to you to treat our customers as you'd like to be treated. So that if...

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? The Quantum Electrical Metrology Group has an opening for Higher Scientist to work on the control of solid-state quantum systems. You will be joining NPL's Quantum Technologies Department at a very exciting time - as quantum phenomena are deli...

We are looking for a Science Writer to join our training and development team here at NPL. You'll have the exciting opportunity to design and create training and education materials, with plenty of autonomy and exposure to a variety of portfolios. You will be joining a collaborative and hard working team, utilising your creativity and problem solving skills. During your first few months...

We're looking for a Principal Systems Engineer to join our Materials and Mechanical Metrology department here at NPL! You'll have the exciting opportunity to work on a range of our instrumentation and metrology projects and provide the technical expertise that informs the strategy that helps shape our site infrastructure. As our Principal Systems Engineer, you'll have str...