At Seequent, we help organisations to understand the underground, giving the confidence to make better decisions faster.

We build world-leading technology that is at the forefront of Earth sciences, transforming the way our customers work. Every day we help them develop critical mineral resources more sustainably, design and build better infrastructure, source renewable energy, and reduce their impact on the environment.

We operate in 145+ countries while proudly maintaining headquarters in New Zealand.

The Role

As a desktop GUI-focused Software Engineer on the Volsung team, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of clean energy by creating intuitive, high-performance interfaces for our world-leading geothermal simulation tools.

Volsung is Seequent's flagship geothermal modelling platform, combining reservoir, wellbore and surface network simulation into one powerful yet user-friendly environment.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to the design and development of high-performance simulation features.
• Investigate and resolve performance bottlenecks and technical issues across Linux and Windows environments.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and CI/CD pipeline improvements to ensure code quality and reliability.
• Work with frameworks and libraries like Qt, VTK, CMake.
• Actively participate in technical decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate geoscientific requirements into elegant, production-grade software solutions.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• 5+ years working in relevant Software Engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency in C++.
• Working knowledge of Python.
• Familiarity with CI/CD Pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent.

Bonus skills that would be an advantage:

• Strong mathematical background.
• Some knowledge of physics concepts.
• Understanding of automated run management and compute service integration.
• Frameworks & Libs: Qt, VTK, CMake.
• Comfortable developing on both Linux and Windows.

Additional Information

Office-based working environment, work from our Christchurch office three or more days per week.