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    • About us
          • Digital Catapult is a deep tech innovation organisation driving business value by accelerating the application of advanced technologies.

            3,000

            Companies supported since 2018

            £555m

            Investment raised by startups since 2018

            20+

            Advanced technology facilities nationwide

    • Our ambition
          • Our ambition is to realise the practical application of deep tech through four interventions

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            Enabling UK deep tech companies to scale

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            Improving UK industrial supply chain resilience

            ambition-decarbonisation

            Driving industrial decarbonisation

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            Advancing UK development and use of data driven and open future networks

    • Our people
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            We are an organisation made up of almost 300 innovators.

            We pride ourselves on the skilled and talented people from varied backgrounds that make up our team – we harness the expertise, perspectives and connections of people of more than 40 nationalities, thereby bringing together a diversity of skills, experience and backgrounds.

            Susan Bowen

            CEO of Digital Catapult

    • Our places
    • Startups and scaleups
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            Black Founders Programme

            The Black Founders Programme is an accelerator targeted at pre-seed or seed stage, Black-founded companies creating innovative products and services...
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            Quantum Technology Programme

            Separating opportunity from hype to understand industry challenges that may be best solved by quantum computing.
    • Government and Public sector
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            Hydrogen Innovation Programme

            Discover more about the the Hydrogen Innovation Initiative and the deployment of hydrogen technologies to address pressing energy and environmental...
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            Digitalising Energy Programme

            Energy Systems Catapult and Digital Catapult have partnered to explore the groundwork for a UK-wide initiative to accelerate a digitalised,...
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            UK Digital Twin Centre

            Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the UK Digital Twin Centre makes digital twins more accessible and meaningful in the UK. It actively enable industries and innovators to safely embrace, explore and realise their dynamic power.
            Find out more UK Digital Twin Centre
    • Corporates and Industry
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            Green Hydrogen Certifier

            This report looks at the Green Hydrogen Certifier - an end-to-end demonstration of a potential digital certification solution for hydrogen production...
    • Academia
    • Investors
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            Black Founders Programme

            The Black Founders Programme is an accelerator targeted at pre-seed or seed stage, Black-founded companies creating innovative products and services...
    • Services
          • Bespoke software & data systems

            Developing proof-of-concept demonstrators to showcase the viability and benefit of deep tech solutions.

            Platform engineering service

            Designing, building and operating physical and digital facilities. Providing testbeds for deep tech discovery and experimentation.

            Technology & innovation consultancy

            Consultancy services helping organisations addresses market preparedness gaps, evaluate financial viability and navigate technology change management.

          • Acceleration programmes for business

            Creating acceleration programmes to support businesses.Helping them grow through mentorship, technology support, networking, and investment opportunities.

            Facilitating and convening

            Bringing together and developing ecosystems of companies to explore, test and demonstrate how deep tech works in practice.

    • Technologies
    • Facilities
    • Opportunities
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    • Current interventions
          • ORCA-020

            Quantum Technology Programme

            Separating opportunity from hype to understand industry challenges that may be best solved by quantum computing.
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            UK Digital Twin Centre

            Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the UK Digital Twin Centre makes digital twins more accessible and meaningful in the UK. It actively enable industries and innovators to safely embrace, explore and realise their dynamic power.
            Find out more UK Digital Twin Centre
    • Case studies
          • Black Founders Programme Showcase event.

            SymphoMe: case study

            Part of the FutureScope's Black Founders Programme, Digital Catapult supported Nyangibo Gallery to get investment ready and receive business expertise
    • Events
    • Blogs
    • Publications
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            Get involved

            Be the first to know about upcoming resources, events and activities in the BridgeAI programme.
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            The Programme

            Find out more about how the Innovate UK BridgeAI programme and how it aims to stimulate the adoption AI and...
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Careers

Discover our open vacancies and reasons to join the Digital Catapult team.

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Overview

At Digital Catapult we are always looking for talented people to join our expert teams. We help to create new products, services, experiences and business models that grow the UK economy through the application of advanced digital technologies. With massive growth potential predicted for future networks, immersive and artificial intelligence, you will play a role in helping UK businesses successfully adopt technology to help them realise their full potential.

Great Place to Work

We are in the UK’s Top 100 Best Workplaces and placed in the UK’s Best Workplaces in Tech.

Great Place to Work is the global authority on workplace culture. Their list recognises leading workplaces that score best-in-class for trust, respect, credibility, fairness, pride, and camaraderie. We have been awarded due to the positive feedback received on our employee survey, with 80% of our employees thinking Digital Catapult is a Great Place to Work.

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Our equality, diversity and inclusion commitments

We recognise and value the advantages and opportunities that come with having people from diverse backgrounds working with us and it is our ambition to build an organisation which is representative and reflective of UK society. We believe equality, diversity and inclusion are key to creating an enjoyable and positive company culture and ultimately to the overall success of our business and of others with whom we work.

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Working at Digital Catapult

Our team of experts work to accelerate the adoption of digital technologies by supporting the design, development and promotion of new products, services and business models.

 

Meet the team
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Rewards and benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, generous pension and life insurance, we offer a range of options so you can tailor a personal benefits package. Whether it’s protecting you and your family with medical cover, getting fit with gym discounts or getting cash back on online shopping, select what works for you.

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Hybrid working and ways of working together

At Digital Catapult, we follow a set of principles that are flexible and agile to allow us all to work successfully whether that is alone in a remote work environment or together in our collaborative office spaces. We trust our employees to do the right thing to deliver our work with pride and high standards and to participate in and contribute to the overall mission of the organisation.

We work flexibly, but always with the ultimate goal being to deliver our personal, team, functional and organisational objectives. We expect everyone to work from a Digital Catapult office or location 2 days per week, with some roles needing to be onsite more regularly to ensure the successful delivery of our work.

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Interview process

Interview process

We strive to ensure that all our processes at Digital Catapult, including our recruitment process, are inclusive. This includes the important step of ensuring that our job descriptions are gender neutral.

Our typical interview process includes a telephone screening with one of our Talent Acquisition team, followed by 2 to 3 interview stages dependent on the role and level of seniority. We utilise task based interviews and competency based interviews to assess applicants consistently and fairly. Wherever possible, we strive to ensure we have a gender balanced and diverse interview panel.

If you need any adjustments to make your interview experience with us as comfortable as possible, we will always endeavour to make reasonable adjustments.

Early Careers Programmes

We are proud to support a wide variety of early career opportunities. We have successfully delivered summer work experience programmes for pupils in years 12 and 13 at local schools, and offer early career apprenticeships throughout the year in partnership with ADA – the National College of Digital Skills. We are also delighted to work in partnership with the Civil Service Fast Stream to offer secondments to Faststreamers in their second year.

We plan to deliver a range of exciting pathways for early career and returners, including internships and graduate programmes.

Please email your interest in our programmes and become part of our talent community. However, we cannot guarantee to respond to everyone, or that every opportunity will be available in 2024.

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