

Job sector
Digital and Technology
Job function
Quantum specialist
Start date
14/04/2025
Job duration
36 months
Application closing date
11/02/2025
Job description
The University of Sussex and CPI TMD Technologies Ltd are looking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled research fellow in atomic clock development.
Working with experts from the university and drawing on expertise from within the company, you will use your skills to follow CPI TMD Technologies’ new product introduction process to:
– Review and redesign atomic clock subsystems
– Source components and suppliers
– Test and characterize subsystems
– Integrate and characterize the atomic clock system
As a KTP Associate you will receive:
– extensive practical and formal training
– gain marketable skills
– broaden knowledge and expertise within an industrially relevant project
– be supported by both industrial and academic mentors.
The KTP associate will benefit from a tax-free Personal Development Budget of £6,000 and there is the potential to publish project output.
Project description
The purpose of this 36-month project is to develop an atomic clock. The project will be funded through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) award, a UK Government scheme intended to promote beneficial relationships between universities and industry. It is essential that the post holder understands that a KTP works across the business and the university, and the vital role you will play if you successfully secure this position. You will be based with CPI-TMD in Hayes and also have the opportunity to visit the beautiful University of Sussex campus.
About the business

CPI TMD’s core business is the design, manufacture and supply of high-power microwave amplifiers and power supplies to the defense and communications industries. These products are typically high value and low-to-medium volume, require extremely specialist manufacture and testing capability. The company is also pursuing the development of a third revenue stream of quantum-enabled sensing and timing products, which will support this KTP.