Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located on the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire a 20 minute drive south of Oxford in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Diamond Light Source conducts world-class research in virtually all fields of science and offers rewarding career opportunities covering both technical and scientific disciplines.

We are looking for a high calibre software scientist to join our dynamic scientific software group to work on visualization and analysis of SAXS data. The team have the responsibility for the provision of advanced data evaluation, analysis and visualization software applications for both internal and external users of Diamond. These applications exploit the very latest techniques to address the challenging requirements of a broad range of scientific disciplines including macromolecular crystallography through to nanostructures and materials science.

You will work with experienced software scientists and engineers in the scientific software group at Diamond, collaborating with I22 staff and a user testing team to define requirements for data analysis and visualization applications. The role will cover the complete process through to publication, ensuring that they are implemented in a timely and effective way.

The work will also involve enhancing and supporting the core features of a software data analysis workbench (DAWN) project being worked on in Diamond. DAWN is an Open Source project so there will be opportunities to work with collaborators at other similar facilities worldwide.
 

• Experience of modern programming languages such as Java, C, C++ and Python;
• Experience or understanding of synchrotron experimentation and data interpretation of Small Angle Scattering and/or closely related scientific field;
• Requires practical experience in a professional, scientific or technical field;
• Ability and initiative to get to the heart of the problem and take it effectively through to completion;
• Good interpersonal, communication  and presentational skills;
• Enjoys team work;
• Self motivated, interested in keeping pace with software testing best practises;
• Ability to interact effectively with staff at all levels.

• Higher Degree in an appropriate discipline;
• Background in using advanced mathematics and software engineering techniques for application development;
• Experience of data management, describing data and exploiting databases for scientific work;
• Experience of software development frameworks and applications such as Eclipse;
• Project management experience;
• Ability to supervise or mentor small teams of more junior technical or administrative roles;
• Available to travel occasionally in UK and overseas including overnight absences.