Chemist in Liverpool

We're Atomik AM. We’re reshaping the world of advanced manufacturing and changing the way the world thinks about materials.

Ours is a new model for manufacturing businesses. Materials-led innovation, cutting-edge chemistry and solutions-based engineering delivering responsible manufacturing and sustainable choices.

It's a conscious commitment to reducing cost, waste and adverse social impact while raising manufacturing performance.

Why This Role Exists

We’re a dynamic team of eight, building the world’s most advanced binder chemistry systems. Our products and services are in demand and our process platform is maturing. We’re hiring to support our next phase of growth.

Next on the list: a highly motivated Chemist who can support formulation development across our binder jetting activities. This person will play a lead role in the development and optimisation of binder and ink formulations, working closely with engineering and materials teams to support the successful translation of laboratory development into robust, scalable, real-world applications.

This role will suit a proactive, curious and adaptable Chemist, someone who is technically adept and happy to explore Chemistry topics with non-chemists (and customers).

What We're Looking For

We're professional non-conformists, advocates of responsible manufacturing, sustainability and solutions-first thinking.

Like us, you are a solutions-focussed thinker. Your approach to formulation development can encompass both rigorous planning and creative aspiration. You are committed to delivering impact, but you know when good enough will do. You’re likely to enjoy working with engineers, customers, and materials scientists since they provide you with new ways of looking at problems.

Finally, you’re interested in the applications of AI-aligned discovery chemistry and have a keen sense of how the role of the chemist can be enhanced with AI augmentation.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Support formulation development and optimisation, including material selection and process parameter optimisation.




• Design and execute experiments to evaluate and improve new formulations




• Develop and implement testing and characterisation protocols to ensure product performance and quality meet customer requirements




• Support the scale-up and translation of laboratory development into real-world applications




• Help the business look for ways, tools, models and methods to enhance processes, performance, IP and the AI value-add to our work

What You'll Bring

• Chemistry credentials: Well-developed Organic Chemistry skills, ideally complemented by a solid understanding of Inorganic. Polymer-specific expertise would be a considerable plus.




• Curious and adaptable: You have genuine curiosity about our world, and a willingness to play a part in improving what we do as a company and improving sustainable manufacturing as a whole. You’re happy to be very hands-on in bringing this about.




• Solution-focussed: You’re proactive in finding ways to approach problems, but you’re not dogmatic and feedback from outside your domain plays a key role in helping you define solutions.




• Proactive and energetic: You're happiest when day-to-day tasks are constituent parts of something big you and the team are building. You enjoy the time and materials constraints that client work brings




• Self-aware, sponge mindset: You don’t have all the answers, but you’re committed to getting them.




• Bonus: Experience in a start-up environment is a plus




• Bonus: Prior exposure to additive manufacturing, binder systems, or advanced materials.

What We Offer

• A non-corporate working environment in a professional team focused on shared goals and values




• Real ownership both in equity and in responsibility




• An opportunity to play a key role in how the business delivers on its wider mission