Deep Tech & Frontier

Metamaterials Engineer

Designs engineered materials with properties that don't exist in nature

£48k-£100k Deep tech

What it involves

Develops materials with precisely engineered microstructures that bend light, sound or radio waves in ways natural materials can't - enabling cloaking, superlenses and novel antennas.

Skills & knowledge needed

Materials scienceElectromagnetic theorySimulation (COMSOL)NanofabricationPhysics

Why it's emerging now

Metamaterials are moving from lab curiosity to real applications in telecoms, defence and optics.

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