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Principal Process Engineer: ALD Deposition and Scale-Up
About the role
You’ll own the path from a recipe that works once to a process that runs consistently, taking ALD/MLD into high-aspect-ratio, non-planar structures.
What you’ll do
- Take ALD and MLD processes from lab demonstration to repeatable manufacture: saturation windows, uniformity, defectivity, cycle time
- Define what “in spec” means for our films, and build the metrology and process control to hold it
- Own reactor qualification, tool matching, and maintenance strategy as we add capacity
- Throughput and cost directly: cycle time, precursor utilisation, cost
- Work with reactor vendors on tool specification and modification
- Work with our reactor team on tool specification and production
What we’re looking for
- You’ve owned an ALD deposition module and carried it through a production ramp. Module development engineer, thin film development engineer, or process development engineer.
- Experience with process windows, uniformity control, defect reduction and yield learning on real tools
- Experience specifying, qualifying, or modifying deposition hardware
Nice to have
- Conformal deposition into high-aspect-ratio or non-planar geometries
- Time at an equipment maker, a national lab or a chip manufacturer
- Catalysis or electrochemistry exposure
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ALD Process Integration and Yield Lead
About the role
You’ll own the whole flow: substrate preparation through deposition to downstream processing, and the interactions between them.
What you’ll do
- Own the end-to-end process, and the trade-offs between steps that no single step owner can see
- Build the yield learning loop: failure analysis, root cause, corrective action
- Establish process robustness: repeatability, sensitivity, tolerance windows and the data infrastructure
- Work with our research scientists to keep new chemistry integrable as it develops
What we’re looking for
- You’ve run process integration or yield development somewhere real and carried a flow from development into production
- Strong statistical grounding
- Failure analysis and characterisation
Nice to have
- Semiconductor background though displays, photovoltaics or medical devices – with ALD
- Prior startup experience
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Head of Lab Operations
About the role
You’ll be the operational backbone of Amphiform’s UK lab, taking an empty room to a fully-functional ALD/MLD facility running production-grade nano-catalyst synthesis.
What you’ll do
- Lead the buildout and commissioning of our Oxford lab, including ALD systems (Beneq TFS 200, Picosun R-200 and Arradiance units) and supporting equipment
- Establish SOPs, safety protocols, and quality systems for catalyst synthesis and characterisation
- Manage equipment suppliers, service contracts, and planning
- Lab budget and inventory
What we’re looking for
- Experience operating an academic or industrial research lab, ideally in materials or catalysis
- Hands-on experience with ALD, CVD, or related thin-film deposition techniques
Nice to have
- Background in fuel cells, electrolysis, or electrochemistry
- PhD in chemistry, materials science, or chemical engineering
- Prior startup experience
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MLD Research Chemist
About the role
Designing and running the synthesis for main materials. Mainly organic synthesis, but simple inorganic will be present. You’ll work directly with the founding team.
What you’ll do
- Design and execute ALD/MLD synthesis pipeline for organic/inorganic layered structures
- Develop and run characterisations
- Build the reporting infrastructure for closed-loop materials discovery pipeline
- Iterate on catalyst architectures targeting improved mass activity at reduced PGM loading
- Document protocols and contribute to internal application notes and IP filings
What we’re looking for
- Degree in chemistry, materials science, or a closely adjacent field
- Strong fundamentals in organic synthesis or electrocatalysis
- Comfort with experimental design and statistical analysis
Nice to have
- PhD in chemistry, materials science, or a closely adjacent field
- Hands-on experience with ALD, CVD, or related vapour-phase synthesis techniques
- Direct experience with PEM fuel cell or electrolyser MEA fabrication and testing
- Familiarity with DFT or other computational chemistry workflows
- Prior experience in industrial R&D or a deep tech startup
- Track record of high-quality publications in the relevant area
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ML for Material Science Researcher
About the role
You’ll build the machine learning systems that close the loop between simulation, synthesis, and measurement at Amphiform. You’ll own this from day one.
What you’ll do
- Design and build active learning pipelines that propose synthesis candidates from prior experimental and DFT data
- Develop models for catalyst performance: composition, geometry, electronic structure → activity
- Work on the data platform
- Work directly with our chemists
What we’re looking for
- Strong ML fundamentals and production engineering skills
- Experience applying ML to scientific or physical-system data (materials, chemistry, biology, physics)
Nice to have
- Background in computational chemistry, DFT, or molecular dynamics
- Publications in ML for materials/chemistry venues (NeurIPS, ICML, npj Comp Mat, Nature Comp Sci)
- Prior startup experience
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Lab Technicians
About the role
You’ll be working with ALD systems, organic synthesis, characterisation tools and synthesis workflows running reliably day-to-day. You’ll work alongside our research chemists and report to the Head of Lab Operations.
What you’ll do
- Operate and maintain ALD/MLD systems (Beneq TFS 200, Picosun R-200) for routine deposition runs
- Prepare substrates, precursors, and samples
- Run standard characterisation workflows: XRD, SEM, BET, electrochemical testing
- Maintain equipment calibration, consumables, and lab inventory
- Follow and help refine SOPs, safety protocols, and quality systems
- Flag anomalies early
What we’re looking for
- Hands-on experience in a chemistry, materials, or semiconductor lab
- BSc in chemistry, materials science, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience)
- Meticulous, methodical, and genuinely cares about the quality of their work
- Comfortable with vacuum systems, gas handling, and standard lab safety practices
- Clear written communication
Very nice to have
- Direct experience with ALD, CVD, sputtering, or other vapour-phase deposition
- Familiarity with electrochemical testing or fuel cell MEA fabrication
- Experience commissioning new equipment from scratch
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Lab Manager
About the role
You’ll be the person who keeps the science running on time and on budget. You’ll work closely with our Head of Lab Operations on strategy and budget, and lead our technicians day-to-day.
What you’ll do
- Own day-to-day lab operations: scheduling, throughput, equipment uptime, consumables
- Run procurement and supplier relationships for consumables, gases, and routine maintenance
- Coordinate with research scientists to plan synthesis and characterisation campaigns
- Accurate records
What we’re looking for
- Experience in a research or production lab
- BSc or higher in chemistry, materials science, chemical engineering, or related
- Strong organisational skills
Nice to have
- Experience setting up a new lab or scaling an existing one through significant headcount growth
- Background in electrochemistry, fuel cells, or catalysis
- Familiarity with ISO 9001, GLP, or other formal quality frameworks
- Prior startup experience
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Chief of Staff
About the role
You’ll work directly with the founder as we build the lab out and scale from research to first commercial systems. The role is very broad – operations, fundraising, hiring, partnerships
What we’re looking for
- Background is open. Ex-consulting or banking, former founder, or early operator at a deeptech startup are all natural fits.
- Comfort working alongside scientists and engineers. Science background not required.
- Ability to work in person in London or Oxford.
Nice to have
- Direct experience running a venture fundraise.
- Operational experience scaling a team through 10 → 30 people.
- Some technical or scientific exposure, even if informal.
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Or email grisha@amphiform.com with your CV and a few lines on why this role.