Muons, See Differently
Build Detectors and your Career with Geoptic
Speculative Applications
Fantastic Careers for Bright, Proactive Builders and Problem-Solvers!
COMPUTATIONAL SCIENTISTS
Are you a Bayesian who knows your Octree from your oak tree? Get in touch.
DESIGN ENGINEER
We need your creative design ideas to advance Geoptic’s instrumentation and deployment technologies, making it easy to use in many tough locations.
ELECTRONICS SPECIALIST
A mix of RF analogue and digital electronics makes the muon tracks visible so, if you think you can contribute, please get in contact.
DETECTOR OPERATIVE
Every team member has a hand in Geoptic’s success, and the Detector Operatives deploy and acquire data essential for our clients’ structural inferences.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Fast-paced and impactful is how we would describe muon imaging – make your mark here.
INTERNSHIPS
From undergraduate bachelors and masters STEM courses to PhD students, we offer two to three short-term placements per year.
Specific Roles
In addition to general applications, we are actively recruiting for the following:
Detector Physicist / Engineer
About Us
At Geoptic, we are pioneers in transforming safe, natural background radiation, known as cosmic rays, into valuable information that helps our clients make critical decisions. Our technology is used to investigate the hidden structures of the world around us, from railway tunnels to complex civil engineering projects. Every project combines science, innovation and precision engineering. The types of projects undertaken include cosmic ray surveys of railway tunnels, design and build of bespoke instrumentation, and computational simulations.
Why you will love working with us
- Work on projects that combine advanced science and engineering to deliver real-world impact
- An excellent work-life balance, notably working in a rural environment in a small team with flexible working
- Be part of a close-knit team where your contribution truly matters
- Company pension and on-site parking
- Opportunities for national and international travel to support live projects
The opportunity
This role offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of applied detector physics, developing and deploying novel sensing systems in real-world environments. You will play a central role in advancing detector technology from design and prototyping through to field deployment and operational use.
Working closely with a multidisciplinary team of physicists, engineers, and software specialists, you will contribute to the design, optimisation, and validation of detector hardware and associated systems. The role spans the full development lifecycle, including simulation, laboratory testing, integration, and performance analysis, with a strong emphasis on practical implementation and reliability outside the laboratory.
You will be directly involved in deploying detectors in operational settings, supporting experiments, trials, and pilot projects, and analysing data to assess system performance and inform iterative improvements. This hands-on exposure provides a rare opportunity to see detector concepts translated into functioning systems that deliver measurable impact.
The successful person will be a member of the survey team, including working night and/or weekend shifts to survey railway tunnels and other infrastructure around the UK. The role holder will need to develop a solid understanding of the Geoptic survey team responsibilities to its clients including those in the rail and transport sectors. A strong personality and drive are needed to acquire high quality data for a successful survey shift.
The position offers scope to influence technical direction, contribute to new detector concepts, and help shape how the technology evolves as it scales. It is well suited to someone who enjoys solving practical engineering problems, working across disciplines, and applying fundamental physics to challenging real-world applications.
Your impact
- Design, develop, and refine detector hardware and associated subsystems, taking concepts from initial design through to deployed systems
- Lead or support the assembly, integration, and validation of detector units for field deployment
- Contribute directly to experimental campaigns, trials, and pilot deployments, including on-site support where required
- Analyse detector data to assess performance, diagnose issues, and guide iterative hardware and system improvements
- Improve detector performance through simulation, laboratory testing, and data-driven optimisation
- Increase system reliability, robustness, and manufacturability as the technology transitions from prototype to repeatable deployment
- Collaborate closely with electronics, software, and data teams to ensure end-to-end system performance
- Document designs, test results, and operational procedures to support knowledge transfer and scaling
- Feed experimental results and operational lessons back into future detector designs and technology roadmap decisions
- Help establish best practice in detector development, testing, and deployment within a growing technical team
About you
- You have significant experience in detector physics, instrumentation engineering, or a closely related field, with a strong track record of delivering complex detector systems from concept through to deployment
- You are comfortable taking technical ownership of detector design decisions, performance trade-offs, and system architecture
- You combine deep technical expertise with a pragmatic, engineering-led approach to solving real-world problems
- You have experience leading or mentoring other scientists or engineers, providing technical direction and constructive review
- You are confident designing, reviewing, and interpreting simulation, laboratory tests, and field data to guide development priorities
- You have experience improving system robustness, reliability, and scalability as technology moves from prototype to production or repeatable deployment
- You work effectively across disciplines, collaborating with electronics, software, data, and operations teams to deliver integrated systems
- You are comfortable engaging with non-specialist stakeholders, explaining technical risks, limitations, and performance in clear terms
- You are self-directed and able to prioritise work in an environment where technical challenges and commercial timelines evolve
- You value good documentation, design discipline, and test methodology, and help establish these practices within the team
- You are motivated by applying advanced detector technology to real-world applications and seeing it deliver measurable impacy
Details
- Contract: Full-time, Permanent
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 9am-5.30pm with some overnight and/or weekend working required
- Location: The position is based in the main office and workshop in South Warnborough with some off-site travel and international travel.
- Reporting to: Senior Engineering Manager
- Key Role Requirements
- Full UK driving licence with access to own vehicle
- Right to Work in the UK
- Physically demanding role with frequent lifting and carrying heavy objects
Electronics Engineer and Muon Survey Lead
About Us
At Geoptic, we are pioneers in transforming safe, natural background radiation, known as cosmic rays, into valuable information that helps our clients make critical decisions. Our technology is used to investigate the hidden structures of the world around us, from railway tunnels to complex civil engineering projects. Every project combines science, innovation and precision engineering. The types of projects undertaken include cosmic ray surveys of railway tunnels, design and build of bespoke instrumentation, and computational simulations.
Why you will love working with us
- Work on projects that combine advanced science and engineering to deliver real-world impact
- An excellent work-life balance, notably working in a rural environment in a small team with flexible working
- Be part of a close-knit team where your contribution truly matters
- Company pension and on-site parking
- Opportunities for national and international travel to support live projects
The opportunity
The Electronics Engineer and Muon Survey Lead role is a key member of the team, supporting the engineering development and construction of Geoptic’s detection systems. The successful person will have experience of electronics and mechanical design and build and will work within the Engineering team. Part of the role will drive excellence in health and safety compliance within the company’s laboratory environment, developing processes that abide with HSE’s guidance.
The successful person will be a leading member of the survey team, including working night and/or weekend shifts to survey railway tunnels and other infrastructure around the UK. The role holder will need to develop a solid understanding of the Geoptic survey team responsibilities to its clients including those in the rail and transport sectors A strong personality and drive are needed to acquire high quality data for a successful survey shift.
Your impact
- Design and develop analogue, digital, and mixed-signal circuits including component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout and clear technical documentation.
- Integrate electronic subsystems into larger systems, ensuring seamless performance and compliance with company and safety standards using simulations and prototypes.
- Provide technical support in our workshops: develop, maintain, calibrate and test muon survey systems
- Troubleshoot hardware and software interfaces diagnosing, repairing and designing and replacing faulty equipment.
- Deliver on-site support for surveys including supervising surveys and some overnight and/or weekend work
- Occasionally designing mechanical enclosures and other components.
- Recommend and implement improvements in design, tools, and processes to increase efficiency, mitigate risks and boost innovation.
- Implement and monitor quality control programs maintaining accurate records to meet auditing requirements.
- Train new users on equipment
- Develop software tools and programs for analysis and feasibility calculations
About you
- Degree or equivalent experience in Electronics Engineering, Physics or related field
- Experienced lead, senior or sole electronics design engineer with a record of successful product development.
- Skilled in electronics design, production and testing of RF and digital circuits
- Experience with CAD for external fabrication and 3D printing design for prototyping
- Software configuration of single board computers
- Strong interest in design, system integration and problem solving with excellent attention to detail
- Comfortable with Linux and Windows OS, and proficient in MS Office or similar software
- Experienced in training new users on equipment and working in small/scientific engineering teams
- Knowledgeable and engaged with health and safety processes and policies
- Ability to commute or relocate to within 45 minutes of our Hampshire office.
- Full UK driving licence with access to own vehicle
- Right to Work in the UK
- A track record of taking the lead on EMC and UKCA/CE Marking approval is highly desirable.
- Please note the role is physically demanding including carrying and lifting heavy objects
Details
- Contract: Full-time, Permanent
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 9am-5.30pm with some overnight and/or weekend working required
- Location: The position is based in the main office and workshop in South Warnborough with some off-site travel and international travel.
- Reporting to: Senior Engineering Manager
- Key Role Requirements
- Full UK driving licence with access to own vehicle
- Right to Work in the UK
- Physically demanding role with frequent lifting and carrying heavy objects
Business Development | Technical Sales
About Us
At Geoptic, we are pioneers in transforming safe, natural background radiation, known as cosmic rays, into valuable information that helps our clients make critical decisions. Our technology is used to investigate the hidden structures of the world around us, from railway tunnels to complex civil engineering projects. Every project combines science, innovation and precision engineering. The types of projects undertaken include cosmic ray surveys of railway tunnels, design and build of bespoke instrumentation, and computational simulations.
Why you will love working with us
- Work on projects that combine advanced science and engineering to deliver real-world impact
- An excellent work-life balance, notably working in a rural environment in a small team with flexible working
- Be part of a close-knit team where your contribution truly matters
- Company pension and on-site parking
- Opportunities for national and international travel to collaborate and build Geoptic’s portfolio of projects
The opportunity
This is an opportunity to play a key role in the commercial growth of a technically innovative business operating at the intersection of science, engineering, and real-world deployment. The role sits at the boundary between technology and market, working closely with customers to understand their needs and translate them into viable technical and commercial solutions.
You will engage with prospective customers from early-stage discussions through to pilot projects and long-term contracts, supporting complex sales cycles that involve technical evaluation, operational constraints, and regulatory considerations. Acting as a trusted technical partner, you will help customers understand how the technology can be applied to their specific challenges and how it delivers value in practice.
The role combines technical sales, business development, and market engagement. You will contribute to opportunity qualification, proposal development, and customer presentations, while also feeding market insight back into product and strategy discussions. Working closely with engineering and delivery teams, you will ensure that customer expectations are well understood and that proposed solutions are technically robust and commercially aligned.
This position offers significant scope to shape how the company engages with its market, influence early deployments, and help establish long-term customer relationships. It is well suited to someone who enjoys working across disciplines, is comfortable explaining complex technical concepts, and is motivated by helping new technology move from pilot stage into widespread adoption.
Your impact
- Generate and qualify new commercial opportunities, converting early technical interest into pilots, trials, and revenue-generating projects
- Own early-stage opportunities end to end, from first customer contact through technical scoping, proposal submission, and close
- Deliver against defined pipeline and conversion targets, including qualified opportunities created, pilots initiated, and contracts secured
- Lead technical discovery with customers to define use cases, success criteria, and deployment requirements at pace
- Drive pilot and proof-of-concept activity, ensuring clear objectives, timelines, and pathways to commercial follow-on
- Shorten sales cycles by proactively addressing technical, operational, and regulatory risks during pre-sales
- Produce high-quality technical and commercial proposals that progress opportunities towards decision points
- Maintain accurate opportunity tracking and forecasting to support revenue planning and prioritisation
- Feed real-world customer feedback directly into product and deployment decisions to accelerate product–market fit
- Support early reference projects and customer success stories that enable repeatable sales and market credibility
About you
- You have experience in a technical sales, pre-sales, or customer-facing engineering role, ideally within an early-stage or scaling technology business
- You are comfortable owning opportunities end to end, from initial outreach and technical discovery through to proposal, pilot, and close
- You can quickly understand complex technical systems and explain them clearly to customers with varying levels of technical expertise
- You are commercially minded and motivated by delivery, with experience working to pipeline, conversion, or revenue targets
- You are proactive and self-directed, able to prioritise effectively in an environment where processes and playbooks are still being developed
- You are confident engaging directly with customers, partners, and senior stakeholders, both remotely and in person
- You are comfortable operating with ambiguity and enjoy shaping how things are done rather than following a fixed script
- You communicate clearly and concisely, with strong written skills for proposals, presentations, and technical summaries
- You work well across disciplines, collaborating closely with engineering, operations, and leadership teams
- You are motivated by seeing new technology move from pilot deployments into real-world adoption
Details
- Contract: Full-time, Permanent
- Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 9am-5.30pm with some overnight and/or weekend working required
- Location: The position is based in the main office and workshop in South Warnborough with some off-site travel and international travel.
- Reporting to: Managing Director
- Key Role Requirements
- Full UK driving licence with access to own vehicle
- Right to Work in the UK
Computational Scientist
About Us
At Geoptic, we are pioneers in transforming safe, natural background radiation, known as cosmic rays, into valuable information that helps our clients make critical decisions. Our technology is used to investigate the hidden structures of the world around us, from railway tunnels to complex civil engineering projects. Every project combines science, innovation and precision engineering. The types of projects undertaken include cosmic ray surveys of railway tunnels, design and build of bespoke instrumentation, and computational simulations.
Why you will love working with us
- Work on projects that combine advanced science and engineering to deliver real-world impact
- An excellent work-life balance, notably working in a rural environment in a small team with flexible working
- Be part of a close-knit team where your contribution truly matters
- Company pension and on-site parking
- Opportunities for national and international travel to collaborate and build Geoptic’s portfolio of projects
The opportunity
Geoptic specializes in instrumentation to measure natural background radiation (called cosmic rays), turning these measurements into key decision-forming information for its clients. The types of projects undertaken include cosmic ray surveys of railway tunnels, design and build of bespoke instrumentation, and computational simulations.
This role is focused on delivering scientific software related to Geoptic’s bespoke particle transport and analysis code. The Computational Scientist role is a key member of the team, delivering critical interpretation of Geoptic’s data to projects and customers. The outputs are profoundly influential for Geoptic and its partners. From guiding advances in instrumentation supported to assessing the condition of clients’ engineering structures, you will be become familiar with measurements and simulations of the cosmic ray muon flux. The role also supports instrumental trials and client surveys through the timely analysis of survey data and on-site direction. You are expected to already be proficient in scientific programming and software practices, in particular using in Python and C++, and have an awareness of GEANT4 Monte-Carlo particle transport codes, picking up new and established libraries as needed.
Your impact
Software and Geoptic’s analysis lie at the heart of our work, this impactful role has responsibilities across the business, including:
- Custodianship of Geoptic’s analysis and simulation software
- Conduct research to identify new simulation techniques, algorithms and technologies
- Delivery of high quality results on impactful technical projects
- Development and support of early career scientific staff
- Project simulation lead and coordination activities
- Technical support to Geoptic’s survey and technology development programmes
- Data analysis using Python or C++ and scientific processing and plotting libraries
- An understanding of radiation detection techniques and technologies
- Working in small scientific/engineering teams
- A considerate and safe approach to their work, following the company’s health and safety processes and policy
- Technical report writing, able to answer the ‘so what?’ question for Geoptic’s customers and alter this messaging as affected by medium
About you
The essential role requirements include:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in Python, related scientific packages (e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, dash libraries), and scientific workflows (e.g. using Jupyter)
- Knowledge and experience of C++ and associated libraries (e.g. STL and boost)
- Experience with DevOps processes and tools (e.g., Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Ansible).
- Experience with software testing (e.g. unit, integration, regression)
- Familiarity with the Linux operating system, scripting, and assuring the use of AI based coding approaches.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and a good mathematical background.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team environment; mixing with people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.
- A positive approach to their work and working with others are essential.
Apply Now
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ANY OF THE ABOVE JOB ROLES, PLEASE GET IN CONTACT
Send Your CV and Covering Information to careers@geoptic.co.uk
Uncover opportunities in applied muon imaging
At Geoptic we’re pioneering the future of subsurface imaging with cutting-edge muon technology — helping industries make safer, smarter decisions every day. Whether you’re a physicist, engineer, developer, or operations specialist, your work here will have real-world impact beneath the surface and far beyond. We’re building a team driven by curiosity, collaboration, and a shared mission to transform how the world understands the underground and its legacy structures.