Physicist to Engineer Track

Amodo Design; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Amodo Design in the UK is seeking candidates for a unique “Physicists to Engineer” track, open to those with strong fundamentals across physics, engineering, and computing. The role offers multidisciplinary, hands-on work on real systems, from electronics to firmware, with ample opportunities to learn on the job.

Candidates with solid grounding in thermodynamics, mechanics, electronics, control systems, or physical modelling are encouraged to apply; programming in Python, C/C++, TypeScript,

Qualifications

• Solid first-principles understanding in physics or engineering.
• Familiarity with electronics, control systems, or physical system modelling.
• Interest in practical making and hands-on work with tooling.
• Programming competence: Python, C/C++, TypeScript, React, Postgres.

Skills

Python

C/C++

TypeScript

React

Postgres

Job description

About Amodo

Amodo is a hardware engineering company building the 21st century’s most important technologies. Our team of mechanical, electronic, firmware, and software engineers are trusted by world‑leading startups, universities, governments and philanthropists to solve pressing technical challenges. We are selective in the projects we take on and proactive in seeking out where our exceptional engineering teams can make the most impact. We believe in differential technology development: deliberately accelerating safety‑enhancing technologies to ensure human flourishing. Not every technology is inevitable – rather, the market fails to incentivise key domains. We work in these areas.

We’ve doubled year on year since our founding in 2023, and we aim to do so again in 2026. That means we’re actively hiring across electronics, FPGA, mechanical, firmware, software, physics, HPC infrastructure, and DevOps — plus exceptional talent in any discipline.

About You

If you have a strong academic background and want to apply your skills to real engineering problems, this is the track for you. We’ve seen several exceptionally strong physicists transition into excellent engineers at Amodo. They have quickly picked up practical engineering skills on the job and gone on to make significant contributions across our projects. One of our engineers, Sam, joined straight after completing his MSc in physics and quickly progressed to a firmware resource and line manager role, gaining client‑facing experience and ups­killing in AI, hardware and software stack.

Sam’s path reflects how quickly someone with strong fundamentals can become a highly capable, multidisciplinary engineer at Amodo. We’ve created this “Physicists to Engineer” job post to encourage more candidates with this background to apply. While inspired by physicists, this track is open to anyone with similarly strong fundamentals and a desire to build real systems.

Existing competence in these areas would be highly valued, though not at all required:

• A solid first‑principles understanding of the world: thermodynamics, kinematics, mechanics, etc.
• Familiarity with electronics, control systems, or physical system modelling
• Interest in or experience in practical making – familiarity with a toolbox
• Programming competence (Python, C/C++, TypeScript, React, Postgres)

Qualities We Value

• Excellent critical thinking and reasoning
• A huge desire for learning

Company Culture & Values

• Truth‑seeking, excellent, enthusiastic, kind, humble, and always learning
• We think before diving in, iterate fast, and focus on the highest‑impact 80/20 work.
• We favour rapid experimentation, quick feedback loops, and sprinting to “something that works” rather than over‑planning.
• Feedback culture: radical candor – clear, direct, kind, welcoming feedback at every level.
• No “not my job”‑ism – if something is wrong we fix it.
• Socials: table tennis every lunch, personal project evenings, pub trips, trail running club, and more.
• Office: spacious, modern space in central Sheffield, with parking and bike storage. In‑house workshop and equipment for our mechanical and electrical work.
• Project structure: you will generally be on one main project at a time, supporting on one or two smaller projects. Team sizes vary from 2–10+ engineers; durations largely are within 2–8 months.
• Project variety: super varied, technically complex, and interesting projects such as drone‑mounted laser holography for climate‑tech and next‑gen motors.

Interview Process

• 15‑minute technical screening interview
• 1‑hour technical interview
• 1.5‑hour in‑person interview
• Offer

How to Apply

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