Senior Optical Research Scientist
$58,000–$81,000 year
HybridLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead and contribute to laboratory, phantom, benchtop, and in-vivo testing of new optical neuromonitoring systems and methods. Own experimental workstreams from planning through execution, analysis, and communication of results. Develop tissue-mimicking phantoms and validate experimental setups to assess optical system performance. Perform in-vivo measurements on healthy volunteers, including subject setup, data acquisition, signal quality assessment, and interpretation of physiological responses. Generate datasets to support product development, system validation, and data science activities. Investigate device performance and failure modes using structured troubleshooting. Summarize findings, compile technical reports, and present results to research, product, engineering, and leadership teams. Provide technical guidance to maintain high standards of experimental practice. Work at least four days per week from Kings Cross offices with a flexible remote day.
Required Qualifications
- Background in physics, medical physics, biomedical engineering, optical engineering, biomedical optics, or a related discipline
- 5+ years undertaking laboratory testing and development of physiological or biomedical measurement systems, including experimental design, device application, data acquisition, and analysis
- Strong hands-on experience working with experimental or prototype technologies, including setup, troubleshooting, measurement execution, and data quality assessment
- Experience with in-vivo physiological signal acquisition, ideally using optical or optoelectronic measurement systems
- Strong understanding of tissue optics, optical signal acquisition, and physiological measurement principles
- Experience with tissue-mimicking phantoms, optical phantoms, flow phantoms, or experimental validation systems
- Experience analysing complex experimental datasets and extracting meaningful signals, parameters, trends, or performance metrics
- Fluency in at least one programming language used for data collection and analysis, such as Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW
- Ability to translate scientific or engineering questions into well-designed experiments with clear objectives, controls, and success criteria
- Strong communication skills, including scientific writing, technical reporting, and presentation of results to different audiences
- Experience working in an interdisciplinary team across optics, engineering, neuroscience, clinical science, product development, or data science
- All team members to embrace AI in their daily work and continuously find new ways to use it effectively
Desired Qualifications
- PhD in biomedical optics, medical physics, biomedical engineering, optical engineering, or a related discipline
- Experience with diffuse correlation spectroscopy, near-infrared spectroscopy, photoplethysmography, optical coherence tomography, or related biomedical optical techniques
- Experience with non-invasive neuromonitoring technologies and associated physiological datasets
- Experience acquiring physiological data in clinical or healthy volunteer settings
- Experience supporting verification and validation activities for medical devices
- Experience with Good Clinical Practice, ethical approvals, consent documentation, or study governance processes
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