Senior Optical Research Scientist (Biomedical Optics)

Location: London, UK; at least four days per week from the Kings Cross offices, plus one flexible work-from-home day

Salary: £58,000–£81,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops non-invasive neuromonitoring technology for clinical brain monitoring and the diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders.

What you will do

• Lead and contribute to laboratory, phantom, benchtop, and in-vivo testing of optical neuromonitoring systems and methods.
• Own experimental workstreams from planning and protocol development through execution, analysis, documentation, and communication.
• Develop and validate tissue-mimicking phantoms and experimental setups for assessing optical system performance.
• Acquire and analyse physiological measurements from healthy volunteers and investigate signal quality, device performance, limitations, and failure modes.
• Generate datasets supporting product development, verification, validation, and data science or machine learning activities.
• Present findings and provide technical guidance across research, product, engineering, clinical, data science, and leadership teams.

Requirements

• Background in physics, medical physics, biomedical engineering, optical engineering, biomedical optics, or a related discipline.
• At least five years of laboratory testing and development of physiological or biomedical measurement systems.
• Hands-on experience with experimental or prototype technologies, including setup, troubleshooting, measurement execution, and data quality assessment.
• Experience with in-vivo physiological signal acquisition and a strong understanding of tissue optics, optical signal acquisition, and physiological measurement principles.
• Experience with tissue-mimicking or optical phantoms and analysis of complex experimental datasets.
• Fluency in at least one programming language used for data collection and analysis, such as Python, MATLAB, or LabVIEW, plus strong scientific writing and presentation skills.

Nice to have

• 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, clinical or healthy-volunteer physiological data, or medical-device verification and validation.
• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practice, ethical approvals, consent documentation, or study governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Interdisciplinary work across optics, engineering, neuroscience, data science, and clinical neuromonitoring.
• AI is a core part of daily work, collaboration, and innovation.
• Company equity plan, salary-sacrifice pension scheme, and private medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Group life assurance at four times annual income and comprehensive mental health support.
• Unlimited holiday allowance plus bank holidays, with one week of remote working per quarter.
• Daily lunch vouchers, late-work dinners, fresh fruit, snacks, drinks, and a YuLife subscription.