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# software engineer

- **Company:** ECM Selection Limited
- **Location:** Guildford, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £80,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 3D Computer Graphics Software, C++ (Programming Language), Qt Modeling Language (QML), Qt (Software), Software Engineering
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.ecmselection.co.uk/register/27342

## About the Role

* 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).

## Description

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.


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