Full-Time
Office Manager
Diffractive Labs
Autonomous AI research lab for materials discovery
Compensation Overview
£30k - £35k/yr
London, UK
Hybrid
Hybrid work is listed for London and the European Union remote arrangement.
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- 1–3 years of experience in office management, human resources administration, executive assistance, or operations coordination, ideally at a small or fast-growing company.
- Experience managing several workstreams and vendors simultaneously without dropping details.
- Ability to handle sensitive information, including salaries, personal data, and contracts, with discretion.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and confidence liaising directly with external providers such as accountants, lawyers, and payroll bureaus.
- Ability to work proactively and resourcefully, following up independently and bringing solutions.
- Act as the main point of contact for payroll, pensions, and benefits, ensuring employee information is updated and each cycle runs smoothly.
- Manage employment contracts, human resources records, and onboarding paperwork.
- Run new-hire onboarding end to end and provide administrative support throughout the recruiting pipeline, from scheduling to offer paperwork.
- Process and pay invoices, manage ad hoc expense reimbursements, coordinate with accountants, and keep financial administration accurate and current.
- Manage office supplies, vendor accounts, and subscriptions.
- Organize team dinners and off-sites and book ad hoc travel for the team.
- Serve as the interface between the company and external specialists, ensuring tasks are completed.
- Experience working in a startup or scale-up environment.
- Familiarity with United Kingdom payroll, pensions, and core employment law basics.
- Experience with human resources, accounting, or expense tools such as Rippling and Xero.
Diffractive Labs is a London-based company building an AI Material Scientist, an autonomous system that discovers new materials by learning from real-world experimentation. It pairs machine learning models, including graph neural networks, with robotic lab automation, so computational predictions and physical experiments continuously inform each other in a closed discovery loop. A team of experimental scientists, computational researchers, and platform engineers runs experiments at scale, replacing manual trial-and-error. What sets Diffractive Labs apart is closing the loop between simulation and lab work, letting AI models propose materials and validate them through automated experimentation. The goal is to accelerate materials discovery and expand the pace of scientific research.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Diffractive Labs publicly posted multiple technical roles in June and July 2026.
- Its website and job descriptions show continued buildout of the autonomous discovery stack.
- Reported funding near $5 million supports multi-year experimentation and hiring.
What critics are saying
- Open positions across 12 roles signal heavy burn before product revenue exists.
- The company depends on hiring scarce materials PhDs in London, slowing execution.
- If automated discovery misses commercial materials by 2027, the platform story collapses.
What makes Diffractive Labs unique
- Diffractive Labs closes the materials-discovery loop between simulation, ML, and experiments.
- Its London team hires specialists in DFT, MLIPs, synthesis, and automation.
- The company targets autonomous discovery, not incremental materials-informatics software.
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Remote Work Options
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