Head of Chemistry

The role

You will build atoms-to-systems capability by coupling atomistic and molecular insight into continuum and systems-scale models. You will own chemistry capabilities, set technical direction, and lead the chemistry team across capability and customer streams.

What you will do

• Own chemistry capabilities from the team to the technology
• Set technical direction and standards for chemistry across the company
• Lead the chemistry team across capability and customer streams
• Direct the team building chemistry capabilities
• Work with Product to productise functionality
• Work with Research to push the frontier across chemistry and AI
• Partner with industry leads to deliver value to customers
• Ensure the right people are on customer projects and well supported
• Act as the foremost chemistry voice in conversations with prospective customers
• Decide which machine learning approaches for chemistry to build or adopt

Required qualifications

• PhD in computational chemistry or computational materials science, or a related field such as chemical engineering, materials science, electrochemistry, or applied physics with substantial research in
• 6+ years of deep technical work since PhD in industry or an industry-facing setting
• Hands-on depth in atomistic simulation and machine learning interatomic potentials
• Working knowledge of techniques at other scales including molecular, mesoscale, phase-field, reactive flow, and process simulation
• Experience applying these to real industrial problems
• Led and grown a team of 5+ technical specialists
• Experience building a technical roadmap and owning its delivery
• Ability to communicate clearly to leadership, Product, Research, Delivery, customers, and team

Nice to have

• Experience in semiconductors, electrochemistry, or catalysis
• Recent years spent at an AI-led materials company or a start-up

Benefits

• Equity options
• 10% employer pension contribution
• Free office lunches
• Enhanced parental leave: 3 months full pay paternity and 6 months full pay maternity leave
• YellowNest nursery scheme
• 25 days of Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays)
• Private medical insurance: 100% employee cover
• Wellhub Subscription
• Eye tests
• Personal development support
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Bike2Work scheme and Season ticket loan

About the company

PhysicsX is the physics AI company for industrials. The company builds a new simulation software stack to deliver deep physics AI enablement across the entire engineering lifecycle.