Graduate Scientist/Engineer - Product Development Programme in Cambridge

Do you enjoy solving practical scientific and engineering challenges with precision and attention to detail? Are you excited by the opportunity to help bring breakthrough battery technology from the laboratory to commercial reality in a collaborative, fast-moving environment? SuperDielectrics (SD) is seeking one Graduate Scientist and one Graduate Engineer to join our Graduate Development Programme. These are exciting opportunities for graduates who are keen to apply their knowledge in a hands-on, multidisciplinary environment while contributing to the commercialisation of a genuinely novel battery technology.

From your first day, you will work alongside experienced scientists and engineers on real technical challenges. Through a structured programme of rotational placements across our product development teams, you will gain hands-on experience across the battery product lifecycle while developing a broad understanding of our technology, products and ways of working. SD is pioneering a breakthrough battery platform designed for the high-power markets of the future, supporting the global transition to electrification. Our water-based batteries deliver market-leading performance through a novel polymer separator, combined with zinc halide electroactive species and carbon-based porous electrodes.

To accelerate commercialisation, SD operates a fully integrated product development model - from advanced materials through to cells, modules and packs - underpinned by in-house battery management systems. This integrated approach provides graduates with a unique opportunity to gain experience across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines within a single organisation.

As a Graduate Scientist, you will work closely with our product and application teams, helping to develop, characterise and evaluate the core technologies that underpin our batteries. Your work will include:

• Preparing materials for electrochemical cells.
• Assembling laboratory-scale cells and prototypes.
• Conducting electrochemical testing and performance characterisation.
• Analysing experimental data to understand material and cell performance.
• Supporting experimental design and continuous improvement of laboratory methods.
• Maintaining high standards of quality, accuracy and technical documentation.

This role is ideal for graduates who enjoy laboratory-based research, experimental science and applying scientific understanding to practical technology challenges.

As a Graduate Engineer, you will work across engineering, product integration and manufacturing activities focused on transforming innovative product concepts into commercially viable battery systems. Your work will include:

• Mechanical design and engineering of battery components and fixtures.
• Cell, module and battery pack assembly.
• Prototype build, testing and evaluation.
• Supporting process development and scale-up activities.
• Identifying opportunities to improve manufacturing, assembly and product performance.

This role is suited to graduates who enjoy practical engineering, product design and developing robust processes that enable new technologies to move towards manufacture.

Regardless of whether you join as a Graduate Scientist or Graduate Engineer, you will complete rotations across several product development teams. Each rotation will provide the opportunity to build technical depth while gaining exposure to complementary disciplines and different stages of our product lifecycle, including:

• Advanced materials preparation and polymer membrane manufacture.
• Electrochemical cell design, assembly and testing.
• Mechanical design, module and pack integration.
• Process development and manufacturing methods.
• Battery modelling, data analysis and performance evaluation.

You will work with experts from a range of scientific and engineering disciplines, building technical capability while developing the commercial awareness, problem-solving skills and collaborative mindset needed to succeed in a high-growth technology company. Reporting to the Head of Technical Operations, you will become an integral member of our multidisciplinary technology team, contributing directly to the advancement and commercialisation of our technology.

Curious, practical graduates who enjoy solving real-world engineering and scientific problems. You should be enthusiastic about learning, comfortable working in a hands-on environment and motivated by the opportunity to help develop new technologies. You will ideally have:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree (or be expecting one) in Materials Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics or a related STEM discipline.
• Practical experience gained through university projects, placements, internships or laboratory work.
• Strong experimental, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach to your work.
• Confidence working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications (particularly Excel) for data recording and analysis.
• Experience coding in Python, or equivalent programming languages, will be viewed as advantageous.
• Experience with polymer chemistry, electrochemistry, battery technology, CAD, machine tools or laboratory quality systems is advantageous but not essential.

We are looking for graduates with curiosity, initiative and the capability to learn.

This is an exciting opportunity to join SD at a pivotal stage in our growth. As we move towards commercialisation, you will help solve real engineering and scientific challenges while working alongside experts in polymer chemistry, battery materials, electrochemistry, electronics and product engineering. Unlike many graduate schemes, you will contribute to meaningful technical work from the outset, gaining broad cross-disciplinary experience and taking part in the development of a technology that could help shape the future of sustainable energy storage.