Innovator / Researcher

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST in upcoming innovation and research roles at Unconstrained Labs.

About Unconstrained Labs

Unconstrained Labs exists to to deliver leaps in scientific understanding and develop new technologies that meaningfully address global problems.

We give world-class, interdisciplinary research teams the purpose, resources, and focus to test truly novel ideas quickly and without distraction.

No papers. No admin. No bureaucracy. Fast-paced, iterative, collaborative. You'll work more like a start-up than a university.

We are standing up Exploration Teams to consider globally important problems, develop and prioritise the most impactful potential solutions, and test them rapidly in the lab. If all goes well, you and your team will invent a new and important technology in record time.

The Role

As an Innovator / Researcher, you will spend 100% of your time finding and developing real solutions to a globally important problem. Embedded in a small, collaborative team, you will ideate boldly, test rapidly, and iterate relentlessly.

We prioritise ideas with the greatest potential impact, irrespective of likelihood or popularity. If you have spent your career frustrated by how little time you spend on the actual problem, this role was built for you.

Requirements

• Deep and broad technical expertise in technical or scientific domains
• A track record of original thinking, whether through research, industry, or independent work
• Comfortable in ambiguous environments, resilient to adversity, and a bias to act
• Experience in experimental environments, ideally designing and building new equipment set ups
• Intellectual range and comfort reasoning across disciplines, learning new concepts quickly
• Collaborative and curious nature; you'll need to learn, not know all the answers
• Conviction that the world's most important problems deserve more urgent attention

Credentials matter less than evidence of great work, but we expect great candidates will have experience in frontier research in academic or industrial labs. A STEM PhD is great but not necessarily required.

If you've made something that didn't exist before, we want to speak to you.

Working at Unconstrained Labs

• Salary: £60,000 - £150,000 depending on experience. Salary will be above academic equivalent and competitive with industry.
• Location: London/Oxford/Manchester with a preference for in-person
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Duration: We welcome candidates considering 12-18 month secondments or sabbaticals
• Admin: We'll handle it.

Please note this is an expression of interest - specific roles will be listed soon.

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