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Every research posting carries a classification and a scale range. Filter by either, and by division, discipline, career rung or how recently it was posted. Everything you choose is kept in the address bar, so a search can be shared or bookmarked.

Scale bands are a research classification, not a claim of experimental reach. Most of this span cannot be probed by any apparatus that exists: nothing below about 10^-19 m has been measured directly, and anything at 10^26 m or beyond is inferred from observation rather than engineered. Every opportunity states the kind of work it actually is.

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Eleven bands from 10-100 m to 10100 m. Click one to filter. The hatched bands are the ones no apparatus reaches.

10-100 m 100 m 10100 m
Experiments reach here 3 bands no experiment reaches

Meso and human-scale devices (10^-3 m to 10^0 m)
Components, instruments and devices a person can hold. Where most engineering prototypes are built and tested.

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Scientific AI Lead

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

What this division builds for the others, who builds it, and the rule that no model ships without its baseline.

Applied engineering Established science L6 · Lead Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-100 m to 10^100 m

Fluent in Python, and able to write code somebody else can read, test and extend. · Data structures and algorithms to the level of choosing correctly and justifying the choice. · Comfortable on Linux, and with Git as a working tool rather than a save button. · Has written tests for numerical code and can explain what a tolerance in a test means. + 6 more

Extreme Materials Intern

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

How one material behaves under an extreme-environment exposure, and what the data does not cover.

Simulation Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^0 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Space Materials Engineer

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Materials for vacuum, radiation and thermal cycling, and the qualification evidence they would need.

Simulation Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^0 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 4 more

Space Robotics Engineer

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Robotic systems for environments where nobody can intervene, and the autonomy that requires.

Prototype Active experimental research L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^0 m to 10^3 m

Orbital mechanics: can propagate a two-body orbit and explain what perturbs it. · Has run an engineering analysis for a system with mass, power and thermal constraints that trade against each other. · Understands the space environment: vacuum, radiation, thermal cycling, and what each does to hardware. · Python for mission and systems analysis. + 6 more

Advanced Manufacturing Engineer

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Turning a design into a repeatable process, and reporting the yield that process actually achieves.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-3 m to 10^3 m

Can draw a free-body diagram for a real assembly and derive its governing equations. · Solid mechanics: stress, strain, failure criteria, and which criterion applies to which material. · Has run a finite element analysis and carried out a mesh convergence study on it. · CAD to the level of producing a manufacturable part, not just a picture. + 5 more

Battery Engineer

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Cells and their real behaviour over life, including the failure mode that ends them.

Experimental Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 5 more

Battery Materials Intern

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Cycling data analysed for degradation, reporting the trend rather than the best cycle.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Bio-Nano Engineer

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Nanoscale structures that have to work in contact with living material, and what that constrains.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Bio-Nano Research Intern

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

One bio-nano interface studied computationally, with what the model leaves out written down.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Bio-Nano Systems Lead

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

What this division works on, who works on it, and the rule that approvals come before work.

Computational Computational research L6 · Lead Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Bioinformatics Scientist

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

The pipelines and the statistics the division's biological conclusions rest on.

Computational Computational research L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 5 more

Biomaterials Engineer

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Materials meant for biological contact: response, degradation, and the failure the material eventually has.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Biosensor Engineer

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Sensing concepts developed to a limit of detection derived in a realistic sample matrix.

Prototype Active experimental research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Biotechnology Intern

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

A scoped biotechnology question worked through with its biosafety and ethics context stated.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Catalyst Engineer

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Catalysts modelled and assessed, including deactivation rather than initial activity alone.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 6 more

Civil Systems Research Intern

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

One infrastructure system modelled, with the hazard it is being assessed against stated up front.

Applied engineering Established science L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^0 m to 10^6 m

Can analyse a statically indeterminate structure and check the result by an independent method. · Structural analysis: load paths, limit states, and why a code has both. · Has run a structural finite element model and validated it against hand calculation. · Construction materials: concrete, steel, and the time-dependent behaviour of each. + 4 more

Climate Infrastructure Engineer

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Infrastructure against stated climate hazards, with the hazard model and its uncertainty named.

Applied engineering Established science L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^0 m to 10^6 m

Can analyse a statically indeterminate structure and check the result by an independent method. · Structural analysis: load paths, limit states, and why a code has both. · Has run a structural finite element model and validated it against hand calculation. · Construction materials: concrete, steel, and the time-dependent behaviour of each. + 5 more

Climate Materials Intern

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

A material for a climate application assessed against a stated environmental requirement.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Computational Biologist

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Biological questions answered computationally, with confounders addressed rather than mentioned.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Computational Biology Intern

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

A public biological dataset analysed end to end in a pipeline that reruns from raw data.

Computational Computational research L1 · Research and Engineering Intern Internship On-site / Hybrid — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^-3 m

Molecular biology to the level of explaining how a measurement in an assay relates to the underlying biology. · Has analysed a real biological dataset and stated its batch effects or confounders. · Statistics for biological data: multiple testing, effect size, and why a significant result can be meaningless. · Python or R for bioinformatics, with a reproducible pipeline. + 4 more

Computational Civil Engineer

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Structural and system models at infrastructure scale, with their validation evidence.

Simulation Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^0 m to 10^6 m

Can analyse a statically indeterminate structure and check the result by an independent method. · Structural analysis: load paths, limit states, and why a code has both. · Has run a structural finite element model and validated it against hand calculation. · Construction materials: concrete, steel, and the time-dependent behaviour of each. + 4 more

Computational Energy Scientist

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

The modelling the division's energy claims rest on, and the honest accounting of losses.

Computational Computational research L4 · Specialist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Energy & Climate Lead

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

What this division works on, who works on it, and the rule that a laboratory result is not a deployable technology.

Computational Computational research L6 · Lead Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Energy Materials Engineer

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Materials for energy applications, developed against a requirement and reported with conditions.

Computational Computational research L3 · Engineer and Scientist Full-Time On-site — Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Scale 10^-9 m to 10^6 m

Can relate an electrochemical measurement to the underlying process, and say what the measurement cannot distinguish. · Thermodynamics to the level of an energy balance over a real system. · Has analysed cycling or performance data and reported degradation rather than a best cycle. · Python for analysis of experimental or simulated energy data. + 4 more

Browse by division

Each division states the scale it works at and the kind of work it does, at the top of its own page.

Ultra-Fundamental & Mathematical Physics

Mathematical and theoretical work on the structure of spacetime, quantum foundations and the frameworks that attempt to describe physics below the Planck length. Entirely theory, mathematics and computation.

Particle, High-Energy & Nuclear Systems

Modelling and data analysis for particle, high-energy and nuclear physics: interaction models, Monte Carlo pipelines, detector data, and radiation effects in materials.

Quantum, Atomic & Precision Systems

Quantum information, algorithms, device modelling, sensing and atomic simulation, in the band where quantum states are measured directly rather than inferred.

Molecular Engineering & Computational Chemistry

Quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and molecular design: computing what a molecule does, and comparing the prediction with measurement wherever measurement exists.

Nano Engineering & Nanotechnology

Nanomaterials, nanostructures, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, sensing and metrology, across the band where structures are fabricated, imaged and characterised routinely.

Materials & Advanced Matter

Materials discovery and modelling across alloys, ceramics, polymers, composites, metamaterials, quantum and energy materials, and materials for extreme environments.

Semiconductors, Electronics & Micro/Nano Systems

Device physics, microelectronics and VLSI, MEMS and NEMS, sensors and photonics, in the band where design, simulation and prototype meet.

Computer Science, AI & Scientific Computing

The cross-department division: research software, simulation platforms, HPC, AI for science, digital twins, data pipelines and the reproducibility every other division depends on.

Mathematics & Computational Foundations

The mathematical foundations the whole department stands on: numerical methods, convergence and stability, optimisation, probability, and the modelling support every other division draws on.

Mechanical, Robotics & Multi-Scale Systems

Computational mechanics, robotics, precision engineering and advanced manufacturing, and the multiscale modelling that carries a material property up into a system that has to work.

Civil, Structural & Macro-Scale Systems

Structural engineering, smart infrastructure, advanced construction materials, infrastructure sensing and digital twins, and climate-resilient large-scale systems.

Biology, Biotechnology & Bio-Nano Systems

Nanobiotechnology, biomaterials, biosensors, computational biology and bioinformatics, tissue engineering, lab-on-chip and microfluidics, and the interfaces between biology and engineered surfaces.

Energy, Environment & Climate Materials

Battery and energy-storage materials, hydrogen systems, solar materials, catalysis, carbon capture, water purification, environmental nanotechnology and climate systems modelling.

Aerospace, Space & Extreme Environment Engineering

Aerospace and space systems engineering, extreme-environment materials, orbital and planetary systems modelling, space robotics and the architecture work behind long-horizon space research.

Astrophysics, Cosmology & Extreme-Scale Modelling

Computational astrophysics and cosmology: observational data analysis, gravitational and structure modelling, large-scale simulation, and the mathematics of models at and beyond the observable horizon.