On television, he starred as Jesper Fahey in the Netflix fantasy series Shadow and Bone (2021–2023).

[5] He had a few minor and ensemble roles, such as in the television film Walter's War and the Oxford Playhouse productions of Cinderella and Dick Whittington.

[3][7] Post graduation from RADA, Young played the lead in The Extraordinary Cabaret of Dorian Gray at the 2017 Underbelly Theatre Festival in South Bank.

[8][9] In 2018, he played Octavius in a production of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre,[10] the Journalist in a production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Donmar Warehouse,[11] and Malcolm in Macbeth at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe Theatre.

[13] That spring and summer, he played Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream at Bridge Theatre alongside Gwendoline Christie,[14] which earned him an Ian Charleson Award nomination.