# Photonics Technologist

**Company**: Digital Catapult
**Location**: Belfast, Northern Ireland
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: c. £50,000-60,000 pa
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Photonics Technologist role involves providing technology expertise and support across photonics, including technical consultancy, thought leadership, lab operation, opportunity development, relationship management, and ecosystem engagement.

You will work closely with colleagues in multiple teams to pursue, plan, design, and deliver projects. The Technologist will contribute to the mapping and pursuit of strategic photonic opportunities for Digital Catapult, alongside quantum technologies.

Responsibilities:

- Prepare and deliver photonics projects, including NI-focused and wider UK work.

- Support proposal development, addressing research opportunities and commercial work.

- Support the Technology Research, Development and Innovation team, including horizon scanning and technology roadmap development.

- Collaborate with photonics team members on research plans and long-term strategy.

- Build networks across academia, industry, and government in the UK photonics ecosystem.

- Collaborate on research journal publications and demonstrate thought leadership via writing articles and presenting at industry and academic events.

Requirements:

- Broad and hands-on experience of photonic technologies.

- Project initiation, formulation, and leadership experience in a consulting, research, or commercial setting.

- Excellent problem-solving and multitasking skills, with a creative and flexible attitude.

- Experience within simulation and design of photonic systems, together with processing of photonic data.

- Outstanding communicator with the ability to present complex issues to business, technical, and political audiences.

Benefits:

- Salary: c. £50,000-60,000 pa (subject to experience) + discretionary bonus + competitive benefits package

- Excellent holiday package: 25 days annual leave, Bank Holidays, and 3 days between Christmas and New Year

- Double-matched pension up to 10% of your salary

- Discretionary company bonus

- 4% of your salary to use towards selecting benefits

- E-Vehicle Scheme; Cycle2Work; Tech Scheme; Gym Discounts; Give As you Earn; PerkPal

- Life insurance 4x salary

- Free to access EAP & Financial Wellbeing advice

- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

- Hybrid working

## Skills

### Required
- photonics
- project management
- problem-solving
- communication
- simulation
- design

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