Job Title | Software Scientist |
Job Reference | DIA0899/CH |
Post Type | |
Division | Science |
Salary information | Circa £33k |
Application deadline | 09/02/2014 |
Job Description
Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, we enable world-leading research across a wide range of scientific disciplines and industrial applications.
- Work with the project leader, software teams and beamline staff and to implement new equipment and features into the hardware and software environments of macromolecular crystallography (MX) beamlines and to develop and integrate software toolkits for modelling beam delivery for users and staff;
- Use advanced programming tools and object oriented languages to design, implement and support the data acquisition and scientific software of MX beamlines;
- Writing scripting software for the control of instrumentation associated with MX beamlines;
- Working with the beamline scientists, scientific software and data analysis teams to define and document requirements for MX beamlines;
- Provide user and beamline support;
- Maintain responsibility for the management and co-ordination of own workload and ensure outputs delivered on time and to high quality;
Qualification & Experience - Essential
- Appropriate first degree or equivalent qualification or experience;
- Good working knowledge of scientific programming;
- Good interpersonal, communication, organisational and presentational skills;
- Ability and initiative to get to the heart of the problem and take it effectively through to completion;
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team;
- Ability to work flexibly with occasional weekend and out-of hours;
- Self motivation;
- Experience of Java or C++ and Python;
Qualification & Experience - Desirable
- Experience of contributing in a major way to a successful scientific software project;
- Be available to travel occasionally within the UK and abroad, including overnight absences;
- Experience of interfacing software to hardware;
- Graphics programming toolkits;
- Experience in macromolecular crystallography data collection and analysis;
- Experience in providing expert support to end-users;
Further Information
Applying for employment
For further details on applying for employment at Diamond, please visit our 'Application Form' page.
Appointments will be made depending on the skills and experience of the candidate. Electronic Diamond application forms in MS-Word are preferred. These should be emailed to recruitment@diamond.ac.uk