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5 Hard Tech Roles Worth Applying To This Week

By HelenaDW

Five open positions across Britain's hard tech sector this week — two software, two hardware, one ops.

Software Engineering & AI

Senior Software Engineer — Gigaton

Build the platform behind Gigaton's self-learning AI control software, which uses reinforcement learning to autonomously run cement plants and cut fuel use and carbon emissions in heavy industry.

  • Location: London (Hybrid)
  • Salary: £60,000–£105,000/yr

Lean Theorem Proving Engineer, Verified Code Generation, DeepMind — DeepMind

Use the Lean proof assistant to help Google DeepMind's models generate formally verified code. A rare chance to work on mathematical correctness at the frontier of AI research in London.

  • Location: London (Hybrid)

Hardware Engineering

Senior Mixed Signal IC Design Engineer — Cambridge GaN Devices

Design gallium nitride power ICs built on Cambridge GaN Devices' ICeGaN technology, which pushes power conversion efficiency above 99% for data centres and electric vehicles.

  • Location: Cambridge (On-site)

Lead Photonics Design Engineer - III/V Components — Salience Labs

Lead III/V component design at Salience Labs, the Oxford spinout building all-optical switches with 10ns latency to remove data-movement bottlenecks in AI data centres.

  • Location: Abingdon (On-site)

Commercial & Operations

Senior Counsel, Commercial — Olix

Lead commercial contracts at Olix Computing, the London startup building the Optical Tensor Processing Unit, a photonic AI accelerator due to ship its first products in 2027.

  • Location: London (On-site)
  • Salary: £140,000/yr
  • Visa sponsorship: Yes

Browse the full board at hardtechuk.com/jobs. New roles added throughout the week.

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