Updated August 4, 2026

21 open positions

Physics Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 21+ physics jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and generous PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 8 new this week. Hiring companies include Graphcore, Helion, and Waabi.

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Jobs

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New This Week

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Companies

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Safety Engineer, Collision Risk

1mo

RemoteUSA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$16k – $126k

Postdoc- Multiscale Optical and Scanning Probe of Integrated Semiconductor Interfaces

3d

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

OnsiteOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Space Domain Awareness Modeling & Analysis Engineer

5d

The Aerospace Corporation

HybridChantilly, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight$129k – $250k

Data Analyst for Beam Instrumentation (SY-BI-SW-2026-127-GRAP)

6d

HybridGeneva, Switzerland

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTOCHF 6,372 – CHF 7,004/mo

Applied Physicist for CMS Inner Detectors

6d

HybridGeneva, Switzerland

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTOCHF 9k

Controls Development Engineer

6d

OnsiteEverett, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$164k – $200k

Principal Plasma Data Scientist

6d

OnsiteEverett, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$230k – $270k

Principal Nuclear Materials Engineer

6d

OnsiteEverett, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$264k – $317k

Postdoc: Determining Main Belt and NEO Origins and Increasing Reliability of Asteroid Detections

11d

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

OnsitePasadena, USA

68 · Good9 day fortnight

Postdoctoral Researcher - Gravitational Wave Detector Technology

2mo

Syracuse University

HybridSyracuse, USA

61 · GoodCompressed week

Platform Verification Engineer - Software Systems

1mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$134k – $222k

Platform Verification Engineer - Embedded Systems

1mo

HybridSan Francisco, USA

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$134k – $222k

Research Scientist (Visual Generative AI & World Models)

18d

HybridBristol, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Scientist (Visual Generative AI & World Models)

18d

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Research Scientist (Visual Generative AI & World Models)

18d

HybridCambridge, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Forward Deployed Engineer - Software

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

R&D Hardware Test & Development Manager

6d

OnsiteEverett, USA

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO$162k – $192k

Applied Scientist

1mo

HybridToronto, Canada

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$146k – $280k

AI Research Engineer

18d

HybridBristol, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

AI Research Engineer

18d

HybridCambridge, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

AI Research Engineer

18d

HybridLondon, UK

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Physics on this page include Graphcore, Helion, and Waabi. Physics roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Physics is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Physics roles span the full seniority range — we list 21 open roles requiring Physics across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Physics hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Physics roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Physics candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Physics on current listings.