Frontend Software Engineer

Orbital Materials develops advanced materials and chemical processes by bridging the worlds of AI, Mechanical and Chemical engineering. We’re looking for ambitious thinkers and builders; those excited by the challenge of bridging AI and industry, chemistry and computation, discovery and deployment.

Our mission is to usher in an era where new advanced materials are no longer discovered, but are engineered with AI and we’ll use this to build technologies that solve major global technology challenges.

Joining Orbital Materials means working at the intersection of deep tech, applied science, and engineering innovation. We are a truly global organisation with teams in London (UK), San Francisco (CA) & Princeton (NJ), building teams in ML Research and Product Development to Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, offering opportunities for talented individuals who want to shape the future of materials and their applications in high-impact industries.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Frontend Software Engineer to build the next generation of scientist-centred AI tools for accelerating scientific discovery, our understanding of the universe, and solving climate change.

You’ll work closely with our computational and experimental groups to build agentic LLM tools which democratise the usage of Orbital Materials’ SOTA simulation models and work at the fore-front of AI-accelerated scientific research.

This role will be focused on delivering software which integrates frontier AI research into the workflow of scientists. This will involve designing and implementing front-end tools for novel interaction patterns with generative models, LLMs, and scientific visualizations. This role will be foundational in establishing our UI best practices, ensuring we have consistent and exceptional UX across our tools.

You will be working alongside the scientists who use these tools for every aspect of the materials discovery and technology development pipeline, and uniquely placed to guide the development of a new, AI-powered methodology for rapidly scaling crucial technologies for the energy transition.

Key Responsibilities

Design and implement responsive, intuitive user interfaces for our web-based applications

• Build robust and performant user interfaces for data-heavy applications
• Translate user requirements into intuitive user experiences
  
  

Develop the standards and systems for our front-end design and development

• Design and build out our component library and front-end tooling
• Help build our first design system to unify our look and feel across applications
  
  

Develop novel front-end interfaces which allow scientists to perform AI-accelerated research

• Push the boundaries of human-computer interaction for chemistry and chemical engineering applications
• Help design and build data visualizations for scientific and engineering data
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of professional experience as a frontend engineer
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, and CSS
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, or Svelte)
• Familiarity with data visualization libraries (D3.js, Plotly, Three.js, etc.)
• Experience in data-heavy scientific or engineering domains is a bonus
  
  

Why Join Orbital?

• Competitive salary commensurate with AI sector
• Flexible and generous paid time off
• Excellent health, dental and vision insurance plan
• Equity package - the ability to own part of Orbital Materials as we grow
• Regular company offsites to the USA and beyond
• The experience of working in a cutting-edge organization dedicated to a better future
  
  

Orbital Materials is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.