# Physical scientists

Organizations whose current-needs assessments include **physical-sciences**. These are inferred from public information, not confirmed job openings; verify directly. Needs unreviewed for 6+ months are flagged.

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- **[3Helix](/pages/3helix.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/3helix.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://www.3helix.com — Likely needs include peptide chemists, drug-delivery engineers, diagnostic assay developers, and business-development operators who can license CHP outside BASF's personal-care exclusivity. Manufacturing and regulatory expertise matter if the company advances imaging or therapeutic IND programs. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Atavistik Bio](/pages/atavistik-bio.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/atavistik-bio.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://jobs.lever.co/atavistik-bio — Hiring skews chemical sciences and clinical (DMPK, biostatistics) and is Cambridge-based, not Utah-based. Broader fit still includes medicinal chemists, structural biologists, allostery-focused biochemists, computational chemists at the ML/structure intersection, clinical development leaders for oncology and rare-disease trials, and manufacturing/CMC capacity as programs advance. Later-stage tria… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[BioEnergenix](/pages/bioenergenix.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/bioenergenix.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://healthcare.utah.edu/press-releases/2014/07/partnership-spinoff-company-may-soon-lead-clinical-trials-of-metabolic — Cannot be stated reliably without current company contact. If still active, a PASK program would likely need medicinal chemistry, metabolic-disease clinical development, regulatory affairs, and capital for IND-enabling work and Phase 1/2 trials. If inactive or absorbed, contributors should verify status before investing time. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Bioparin](/pages/bioparin.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/bioparin.md` · Salt Lake City — Bioparin is at lab scale. The company likely needs synthetic biologists with carbohydrate metabolism expertise, process engineers with biosynthesis scale-up experience, carbohydrate chemists, and regulatory affairs specialists familiar with drug biosimilar pathways. At this stage, non-dilutive federal funding (further SBIR/STTR awards, NIH grants) is the most plausible near-term capital path, wit… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Blackrock Neurotech](/pages/blackrock-neurotech.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/blackrock-neurotech.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://blackrockneurotech.com/careers/ — Hiring emphasis runs to electrode R&D and manufacturing (engineers, technical project managers, technicians), BCI software leadership, IT and cybersecurity, and quality — plus intermittent BCI internships in data science and related teams. Neural engineers, materials scientists for biocompatible electrode interfaces, signal-processing and machine-learning engineers, regulatory engineers experienc… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Blundell Geothermal Plant](/pages/blundell-geothermal-plant.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/blundell-geothermal-plant.md` · Beaver County · Website: https://www.pacificorp.com/ — Utility geothermal plants typically need plant operators, maintenance technicians, electrical and mechanical craft, and occasional engineering support for outages and capital projects. PacifiCorp hiring is corporate — search Rocky Mountain Power / PacifiCorp careers for Utah generation roles rather than a plant-specific board. Clearance is usually not required; rural relocation willingness is. *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[Carterra](/pages/carterra.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/carterra.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://carterra-bio.com — The company's homepage and careers navigation point to instrument sales, applications support, and software for kinetics and epitope analysis — roles spanning biophysics applications scientists, microfluidics and optical hardware engineers, and software for high-throughput biosensor data ([official site](/pages/carterra-official-website.md)). Specific open requisitions were not captured here. *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[CleanJoule](/pages/cleanjoule.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/cleanjoule.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://cleanjoule.com — Biochemical engineers, process engineers, and catalytic chemists with biofuel scale-up experience are the most relevant technical contributors. A DoD partnership signals interest in defense and government-contract pathways alongside commercial aviation. Manufacturing, quality, and supply chain hires are likely priorities as the company moves toward full-scale production. The airline strategic inv… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Coreform](/pages/coreform.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/coreform.md` · Orem · Website: https://coreform.com — Likely needs include computational scientists, numerical analysts, finite-element-method specialists, computational-geometry engineers, CAD-kernel developers, and application engineers who can translate solver capability into customer workflows. The team appears small and Utah-based, with an academic engineering culture where individual technical contribution is visible. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Curza](/pages/curza.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/curza.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://curza.com — Likely needs include medicinal chemists, microbiologists, and structural biologists focused on ribosome biochemistry, plus regulatory and CMC support for IND preparation. The company operates in a grant-heavy, mission-driven environment — contributors motivated by antimicrobial-resistance and biodefense impact rather than typical VC pharma timelines tend to fit best. No Phase 1 IND filing for CZ-… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[CycloKinetics](/pages/cyclokinetics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/cyclokinetics.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://cyclokinetics.com/ — CycloKinetics' public careers language describes wanting "engineers, scientists, and operators driven by performance, innovation, and national security impact," consistent with a scale-up-stage propellant manufacturer. No specific open roles, team size, or hiring plan is published; treat this as directional rather than a current openings list. *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[Cyrq Energy](/pages/cyrq-energy.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/cyrq-energy.md` · Beaver County · Website: https://cyrqenergy.com/ — Public careers detail for Utah specifically is thin on a plain fetch of cyrqenergy.com. Durable role families for a binary geothermal operator include plant operators and O&M technicians, reservoir / production engineers, geochemists, instrumentation and controls staff, and field drilling/workover contractors. Verify openings on Cyrq's own site or LinkedIn before recommending a Utah application p… *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[Eden Technologies](/pages/eden-technologies.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/eden-technologies.md` · St. George · Website: https://edentechinc.com — Materials engineers and membrane specialists with reverse osmosis expertise; mechanical engineers who can work on centrifuge design for extreme-chemistry environments; water-sector business-development people who can navigate municipal, agricultural, and industrial water-treatment procurement. At $1M raised, this is a very early-stage company — contributors should expect high individual leverage … *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Electric Power Systems (EPS)](/pages/electric-power-systems.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/electric-power-systems.md` · North Logan · Careers: https://epsenergy.com/about-electric-power-systems/careers/ — Likely needs include aerospace battery electrochemists, power electronics engineers, certification engineers with FAA DER experience, systems engineers familiar with aviation safety standards (DO-178C, DO-254, ARP4754A), and manufacturing engineers capable of building aviation-grade hardware at production scale. The team appears to be Utah-based and smaller than coastal counterparts, making indiv… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[EnduraCure](/pages/enduracure.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/enduracure.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://enduracure.com — Polymer chemists, materials scientists, electronics manufacturing engineers, and business development people who understand the flexible-electronics supply chain. This is an early-stage academic spinout — the team is small, roles are broad, and individual leverage is very high. The right environment for someone who wants to build a new materials company from the ground up rather than join an esta… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Energy Fuels / White Mesa](/pages/energy-fuels-white-mesa.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/energy-fuels-white-mesa.md` · San Juan County · Careers: https://www.energyfuels.com/careers/ — Hiring spans mill-site chemistry, lab, and operations roles at White Mesa alongside corporate functions in Lakewood, CO. Broader fit still includes chemical-process engineers, metallurgists, radiation-safety specialists, environmental-compliance experts, community-relations leaders, regulatory counsel, maintenance and operations talent, project-finance people, and operators who understand both nu… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[EnergySolutions](/pages/energy-solutions.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/energy-solutions.md` · Tooele County · Careers: https://jobs.energysolutions.com/ — Nuclear engineers, environmental compliance specialists, health physicists, operations managers, transportation logistics staff, and regulatory affairs professionals. Cleared positions for DOE-site work are common. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Fervo Energy](/pages/fervo-energy.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/fervo-energy.md` · Beaver County · Careers: https://fervoenergy.com/careers/ — Fervo employed 199 full-time and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025 ([prospectus](/pages/fervo-energy-ipo-prospectus-2026.md)) — a small company building a very large plant, which is the shape of the hiring pressure. Needs span plant and field engineering (power, electrical, instrumentation & controls, operations, reservoir engineering and data science), supply-chain and category managem… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Halia Therapeutics](/pages/halia-therapeutics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/halia-therapeutics.md` · Lehi · Website: https://haliatx.com — Likely needs for a company at this stage include drug-discovery scientists, medicinal chemists, clinical pharmacologists, translational and clinical-operations staff, regulatory leaders experienced in oncology and hematology trials, and the capital to move from Phase 2a toward larger, confirmatory studies. A relatively small team for the scope of the program means individual scientists and operat… *(reviewed 2026-06-18)*
- **[Hexcel Corporation](/pages/hexcel.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/hexcel.md` · Salt Lake County · Careers: https://www.hexcel.com/careers — Likely needs include materials scientists, process engineers, controls engineers, manufacturing leaders, quality engineers, maintenance technicians, safety leaders, and operators comfortable with aerospace and defense certification. For students and operators, Hexcel may be a better fit than a startup if they want rigorous industrial systems, tangible products, and long-cycle aerospace work. *(reviewed 2026-05-09)*
- **[Ionic Mineral Technologies (Ionic MT)](/pages/ionic-mt.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/ionic-mt.md` · Juab County · Careers: https://ionicmt.com/company/careers — Hiring centers on hydrometallurgy and separation-process chemical engineering (acid leaching, impurity removal, crystallization, solids handling for high-purity materials). Broader needs still include process engineers and electrochemists across mining-to-cell development, plus supply-chain and business-development people who understand automotive and defense procurement qualification cycles. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Merit Medical Systems](/pages/merit-medical.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/merit-medical.md` · South Jordan · Careers: https://www.merit.com/careers/ — Likely needs include mechanical engineers, biomedical engineers, materials scientists who understand biocompatible polymers and hydrophilic coatings, regulatory engineers who can navigate FDA 510(k) and PMA pathways, quality engineers, and manufacturing engineers for the precision extrusion and assembly lines. Operations leaders comfortable with both ISO-class cleanroom production and acquisition… *(reviewed 2026-05-09)*
- **[NephroNovus](/pages/nephronovus.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/nephronovus.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://altitudelab.org/portfolio — Likely needs for a company at this stage include renal fibrosis biology expertise, medicinal chemistry or biologics discovery, computational drug-discovery engineering, preclinical pharmacology, IP counsel, and seed fundraising. A two-founder team (if still accurate) implies high leverage per contributor but also key-person risk. *(reviewed 2026-06-19)*
- **[Northrop Grumman — Promontory Facility](/pages/northrop-grumman-promontory.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/northrop-grumman-promontory.md` · Promontory · Careers: https://www.northropgrumman.com/careers — Northrop Grumman Promontory recruits propulsion engineers, mechanical engineers, materials scientists (propellant chemistry, composite case design), manufacturing engineers for large-scale aerospace hardware, and safety engineers specializing in high-energy materials handling. Quality assurance and systems engineering roles are also significant. Most roles touching Sentinel require security clear… *(reviewed 2026-06-19)*
- **[Nusano](/pages/nusano.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/nusano.md` · West Valley City · Careers: https://nusano.com/careers/ — Likely needs include accelerator physicists, radiochemists, nuclear and target engineers, cGMP manufacturing-process engineers, quality and regulatory staff spanning both nuclear and pharmaceutical regimes, and commercial leaders to convert reservations into long-term supply agreements. Apply via the Nusano careers board; recruiting tracks the West Valley City production ramp. This is hands-on, h… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Ormat Technologies](/pages/ormat-technologies.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/ormat-technologies.md` · Beaver County · Careers: https://www.ormat.com/en/company/careers/main/ — Ormat's own careers portal and current external job listings point to plant-operations and engineering roles that would apply directly to Cove Fort — plant operators, operations-and-maintenance engineers, geochemists, and instrumentation/controls staff who keep a binary-cycle facility running — alongside corporate functions with clear geothermal-development ties: procurement/buyer roles for plant… *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[OxEon Energy](/pages/oxeon-energy.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/oxeon-energy.md` · North Salt Lake · Careers: https://www.oxeonenergy.com/careers — Hiring frames around manufacturing scale-up — engineering, manufacturing, operations, and business development as capacity ramps. That aligns with the longer-standing need for electrochemists, ceramics and materials scientists, thermal systems engineers, and manufacturing process engineers who can take small-batch SOEC production to factory scale; industrial-hydrogen chemical engineers remain rel… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[RAM Aviation, Space & Defense](/pages/ram-aviation-space-defense.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/ram-aviation-space-defense.md` · St. George · Careers: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/jobs/All/4b9a9d4d-d7b3-4bc0-afd6-915c2ab0bb76/RAM-Aviation-Space-Defense — RAM likely recruits mechanical engineers with serious interest in precision machining and fluid and gas dynamics, materials scientists with propellant-compatibility expertise, quality assurance engineers, and skilled precision machinists. St. George, UT base offers lower cost of living than aerospace hubs in Florida, Texas, or California, which may matter to engineers who want to stay in the Moun… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Recursion Pharmaceuticals](/pages/recursion-pharmaceuticals.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/recursion-pharmaceuticals.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/recursionpharmaceuticals — Hiring spans computational biology (early discovery, oncology, neuroscience), clinical pharmacology and clinical science, CMC/regulatory affairs, DMPK leadership, compound management, and corporate strategy. Broader fit still includes ML infrastructure engineers, assay development scientists, medicinal chemists, clinical operators, and product-minded platform leaders who can serve both internal p… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Rodatherm Energy](/pages/rodatherm-energy.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/rodatherm-energy.md` · Great Basin · Website: https://rodatherm.com — Petroleum engineers, drilling engineers, and reservoir engineers with energy project development experience are the most relevant contributors. Mechanical engineers for power-generation hardware and early-stage startup operators comfortable with multi-year project timelines are also likely needs. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Sethera Therapeutics](/pages/sethera-therapeutics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/sethera-therapeutics.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://setheratx.com — Likely needs include peptide chemists, enzymologists, medicinal chemists, in-vivo pharmacologists, and platform-partnership business development. Very early team; broad roles and high individual leverage typical of academic spinouts. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Telescope Array](/pages/telescope-array-ultra-high-energy-cosmic-rays.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/telescope-array-ultra-high-energy-cosmic-rays.md` · Millard County · Website: https://www.telescopearray.org/ — Likely needs include detector-electronics engineers, simulation and reconstruction software builders, graduate students and postdocs interested in astroparticle physics, and operations staff for the desert site. The collaboration is also a useful destination for university administrators and policymakers thinking about long-horizon basic-science infrastructure that pays off on decade timescales. *(reviewed 2026-05-09)*
- **[Thera-T Pharmaceutics](/pages/thera-t-pharmaceutics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/thera-t-pharmaceutics.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://thera-tpharmaceutics.com — At approximately $400K in funding, Thera-T is operating at lab and early animal-study scale. Likely needs include additional non-dilutive federal funding (SBIR/STTR, NIH NCI grants), early angel or seed investment from oncology-focused life sciences investors, preclinical contract research organization (CRO) partnerships for animal studies, and eventual regulatory guidance for IND filing. The com… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Trace AQ](/pages/trace-aq.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/trace-aq.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://www.traceaq.com/careers — Hiring is software-heavy — machine-learning, front-end, full-stack, and data/cloud-infrastructure engineers, plus internships. That aligns with shipping Flow AQ / Aero as products while the underlying physics models stay core IP. Seed-stage capital still implies pressure to prove customer acquisition alongside forecast accuracy — healthcare and public-sector sales operators remain relevant even w… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[US Magnesium](/pages/us-magnesium.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/us-magnesium.md` · Tooele County · Careers: https://usmagnesium.com/careers/ — The public careers page routes applications through company HR email rather than named openings. In a stable operating scenario, needs would include chemical and electrochemical process engineers, metallurgists, industrial maintenance specialists, and environmental-compliance engineers. During bankruptcy and ownership transition, hiring posture, capital investment, and operational continuity are … *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[US Synthetic](/pages/us-synthetic.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/us-synthetic.md` · Orem · Careers: https://ussynthetic.com/careers/ — Manufacturing and process operations dominate — press operation, materials handling, and finishing work on parts held to tight tolerances. Around that sit materials and mechanical engineering roles tied to press design and diamond synthesis, plus applications engineering for customers specifying cutters for particular formations. The company describes itself as family-oriented with an emphasis on… *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[Valar Atomics](/pages/valar-atomics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/valar-atomics.md` · Emery County · Careers: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/valaratomics — Hiring runs heavy for both Hawthorne, CA engineering and the Orangeville, Utah site build-out: construction quality inspectors and supervisors, infrastructure leadership, fuel-plant process technicians, health physicists and HPTs, I&C and maintenance technicians, nuclear operations management, QA laboratory roles, and nuclear supplier-quality engineers. Utah talent is most relevant for site const… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Wasatch Ionics](/pages/wasatch-ionics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/wasatch-ionics.md` · unknown — Likely needs include electrochemistry and battery-materials researchers, systems engineers who understand reserve-battery architectures, Army program and SBIR contracting advisors, and manufacturing scale-up expertise — all at a stage where the team and funding picture are not publicly visible. Strong fit for people who want frontier battery chemistry with a defense application and are comfortabl… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Xandem](/pages/xandem.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/xandem.md` · Salt Lake City — If the defense path revives, likely needs include RF and signal-processing engineers, embedded systems engineers, mesh-network specialists, and government business-development people who can navigate DHS and DoD procurement. A bootstrapped capital structure limits how much R&D the company can sustain without a strategic partner or contract. For talent matching, Xandem fits researchers and enginee… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Zanskar Geothermal](/pages/zanskar-geothermal.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/zanskar-geothermal.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://jobs.lever.co/Zanskar — Hiring (Salt Lake City hybrid / field) spans project development, mechanical and systems engineering, equipment and geologic technicians, and platform/AI engineering, with seismology and software roles rotating through the board. That matches the stack: project development and field ops alongside geoscience and ML platform work. For talent matching, Zanskar remains a strong candidate for AI engin… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*