Why join our team?
yes!   A competitive salary

yes!   A generous
non-contributory pension (12.5%)

yes!   Health and insurance benefits

yes!   Share options

yes!   A friendly team

yes!   Flexible working hours

yes!   Joining us in Cambridge?
We have a newly-refurbished city center office, parking, cycle racks, and proper tea & coffee!
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Graduate Opportunites

We are taking applications from graduates (Bachelors, Masters, or PhD): new project, immediate start, to £25,000

Join our growing, dynamic team in Cambridge: Granta is a successful University spin-out company providing innovative software to the world's leading engineering enterprises.

Granta Design is the world-leader in materials information technology—a fascinating and expanding area of engineering software. We help companies to apply materials knowledge in order to innovate, to make products safer and more efficient, and to minimize environmental impact. We are profitable and have experienced consistent year-on-year growth over the last decade. A spin-off from Cambridge University, we offer a unique product and have a great reputation as a company that is open, leading-edge, and flexible. We provide a high level of autonomy to individuals, realising that motivated and committed staff are the key to our success.

Software Engineers

Join our talented software team, working alongside our materials science team to develop database products and applications that assess, analyse, visualise, share, and use our customers' specialist data. Technologies include c#, c++, client-server .NET applications, relational databases and SQL.

Last summer's graduates are now delivering software that customers are eager to use:

"It's great to work on software that has a positive impact", says Jacob, who has been working on eco design software.

"It's exciting to be doing work for space discovery", says Jonny, who just returned from a project meeting with NASA at the launch of the space shuttle Discovery

Future Progression—Options for career development include (but are not limited to): senior engineering positions, project management, team leadership. A key part of your manager's job will be to help you identify your aspirations and realise your goals.

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