Software Engineer, Structural Geology

Ecm Selection; Guildford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing software company based in Guildford seeks a Software Engineer with a PhD in relevant fields. The role involves coding, interface design, and project work in structural geology applications. Candidates must have strong C/C++ skills and specific project experience in geology-related endeavors.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus

Relocation assistance for qualifying candidates

Qualifications

• PhD in relevant field combined with industry or academic projects.
• Excellent programming skills in C/C++ with OO design.
• Experience with seismic processing, geological modelling, and GUI development preferred.

Responsibilities

• Software coding, interface design, testing, and algorithm development related to structural geology.
• Fully onsite position requiring commuting to office.

Skills

C

C++

Geology

Geophysics

Geoengineering

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Geophysics, Maths or Geology

Tools

Qt

OpenGL

Vulkan

CMake

JIRA

Git

Jenkins

GDAL API

MapBox API

CUDA

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Based full-time in newly furbished offices, this growing industry leader develops a range of software products that are used by leading companies in the energy, mining and O&G industries. They are looking to grow their current team and seek a Software Engineer with specific experience and interests in structural geology applications.

The company offer an extensive package including highly competitive salary, performance related bonus and other benefits.

As a software engineer within their team, general activities will include software coding, interface design, testing and algorithm development. However, this is expected to be within projects applied to structural geology or geoenegineering.

Requirements:

• PhD in Computer Science, Geophysics, Maths or Geology combined with industry or extended academic (ideally doctoral) projects involving structural geology or geoengineering.
• Excellent C or C++ programming skills including OO design and use of standard libraries (including Boost).
• Specific project experience should be in one or more of the following:

• Seismic processing and fault seal analysis.
• Geomechanical and geological modelling including deformation modelling.
• 2D and 3D kinematic modelling techniques.
• Fracture modelling.

• Additional experience with: GUI development (Qt, QML); 3D graphics toolkits (OpenGL, Vulkan or shaders); CI experience (CMake, JIRA, Git, Jenkins); GIS development tools (GDAL API, MapBox API); multithreading / parallel computing (GPU programming or CUDA); MATLAB / Python scripting for mathematical / geology problems would be advantageous.

Due to specific requirements, applicants without the relevant project experiences will not be considered (similarly exposure to relevant projects would not be sufficient).

The role is based fully-onsite, so candidates need to be able to commute daily to their offices (there are not provisions for hybrid or home-working). If you would need to relocate, relocation assistance is on offer for qualifying candidates.

Role is for an early 2026 start.

Keywords: PhD / Experienced, C / C++, Geology, Geophysics, Geoengineering, Software Engineering, 2026 start

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