Head of Chemistry

This Role
You’ll build this distinctive atoms-to-systems capability, coupling atomistic and molecular insight into the continuum and systems-scale models across PhysicsX, so our customers can industrialise novel materials and processes faster. This is a mandate to define and deliver a new era for chemists, materials scientists, process engineers, and operators.

To do this, you’ll own chemistry capabilities at PhysicsX, from the team to the technology. You’ll set the technical direction and standards for chemistry across the company, and lead the chemistry team across two streams:

Capability: Direct the team building our chemistry capabilities. Work with Product to productise functionality, and with Research to keep pushing the frontier across chemistry and AI. Partner with our industry leads so the roadmap delivers the greatest value to our customers.
Customers: Work with our Delivery leads to ensure the right people are on the right customer projects and well supported, and that we keep growing the team with the right skill sets. You are the hiring manager for the team across both streams.
You’ll be the foremost chemistry voice in conversations with prospective customers. You’ll work with industry leads and customers, read the signal from those interactions, and decide which technical directions to pursue, how best to support our customers’ chemistry needs, and which capabilities to use or develop.

You’ll also:

Decide which machine learning approaches for chemistry we build, which we adopt, and how they couple into our continuum and systems-scale models
Own the balance between capability development and time with our customers
Stay hands-on enough to go deep with the team on hard technical problems
Your performance will be judged in equal parts by the success you drive with our customers and the uptake of new, distinctive capabilities.

This Role
You have a PhD in computational chemistry or computational materials science. Alternatively, your PhD is in a related field such as chemical engineering, materials science, electrochemistry, or applied physics, with substantial research in atomistic or multiscale modeling. You have 6+ years of deep technical work since your PhD, in industry or an industry-facing setting.