PhD Graduate Consultant – Physics (Optics) - 2027 (MedTech)

Location: Melbourn, England, United Kingdom; all staff must work on-site five days a week.

Company

hirify.global is an employee-owned technology and product development consultancy helping clients invent, design, and manufacture commercially successful products across health tech, life science, energy, communications, engineering, physical science, and biology.

What you will do

• Support multidisciplinary teams in inventing new products and technologies.
• Develop medical technologies for eyecare, including next-generation diagnostic systems, surgical tools, and lenses.
• Work across multiple projects and contribute to hirify.global’s wider Health Tech and multi-sector portfolio.
• Build market understanding, engage directly with clients, present findings, and ensure requirements are understood and met.
• Progress toward leading projects, building teams, managing client relationships, and representing hirify.global at UK and international conferences.

Requirements

• Minimum 2:1 degree in Physics.
• Set to complete a PhD within the next 6–12 months.
• Deep intellectual curiosity, inventiveness, and rigorous first-principles thinking.
• Commercial awareness and an entrepreneurial mindset focused on turning technologies into products, ventures, and impact.
• Proactive, self-starting approach with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Ability to collaborate, build trust, influence stakeholders, and communicate complex technical ideas clearly to different audiences.
• Strategic and systems-minded approach, including the ability to anticipate challenges, consider commercial aspects, navigate ambiguity, and maintain priorities.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site work five days a week in an award-winning campus in green surroundings just south of Cambridge.
• Mentorship, guidance, autonomy, and opportunities to take ownership and shape professional development.
• Annual profit-related bonus and virtual shares in hirify.global Group’s long-term success.
• 10% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, life insurance worth six times salary, and 25 days of annual holiday.
• Free on-site lunch, enhanced parental leave, flexible return-to-work support, electric car leasing, cycle-to-work schemes, interest-free season ticket loan, and local sports and cultural discounts.
• Comprehensive relocation support where applicable.

Hiring process

• Recruitment is conducted on a rolling basis; the advert closes once all spaces are filled, so early application is recommended.