Software Engineer Protein Crystallography Beamlines at SLS Your tasks Within a small international software development team you are expected to develop software for the Generic Data Acquisition (GDA) framework (www.opengda.org). It is also your task to support the team in adapting this framework, which has been developed at the Diamond Light Source, UK, for the use at the SLS Protein Crystallography beamlines. The GDA framework is based on Java client/server technology, using RMI, Jython, Eclipse RCP and other technologies. The development platform is Eclipse Helios on Scientific Linux 5.x. Your profile You have a degree in computer science or software engineering and at least 5 years of work experience with heterogeneous systems. You have worked with Linux or UNIX systems and programmed applications in Java, Python, C/C++ or equivalent OO languages. UML, iterative software development processes and test concepts are well known to you. Knowledge of scientific beamline instrumentation software (e.g. EPICS) is an advantage.
You should enjoy working in an interdisciplinary, multinational research environment, in a team of engineers and scientists and feel comfortable in complex technical projects and environments. You like to interact with your team members as well as the users of your applications. You have good communication skills and are fluent in English. For further information please contact Dr Meitian Wang, phone +41 56 310 41 75 or Dr Ezequiel Panepucci, phone +41 56 310 52 67. Please submit your application online for the position as Software Engineer (index no. 6112-07) - http://www.psi.ch/pa/offenestellen/0153-2 Paul Scherrer Institut, Human Resources, Elke Baumann, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland __________________________________ Meitian Wang Swiss Light Source at Paul Scherrer Institut CH-5232 Villigen PSI - http://www.psi.ch/sls/ Phone: +41 56 310 4175 Fax: +41 56 310 5292
