Software Engineer Job in Grenoble, France

The ESRF, the European Synchrotron, is an international science facility based in Grenoble, France. Thanks to its high-level, innovative engineering and cutting-edge vision, the ESRF is recognised as one of the top research institutions worldwide, welcoming more than 6 500 scientists every year in fields such as biology, medicine, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, cultural heritage, materials and surface science, and physics. The ESRF is supported by 22 countries and employs 650 staff.

Software Engineer Job Description

The ESRF, the European Synchrotron, is an international research facility based in Grenoble, France. Thanks to high-level, innovative engineering and cutting-edge vision, the ESRF is recognised as one of the top research institutions worldwide, welcoming more than 6 500 scientists every year in fields such as biology, medicine, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, cultural heritage, materials and surface science, and physics. The ESRF is supported by 22 countries and employs 650 staff.

We are currently seeking to recruit a:
Software Engineer
time-limited contract (3 years maximum)
ref. COD/Autotomo

JOB DESCRIPTION
The ESRF has started an ambitious modernisation programme named "Extremely Brilliant Source" (EBS) to replace the existing storage ring with a brand new storage ring with challenging characteristics. In a team of 17 software developers specialising in Beamline Control, you will contribute to the development of automation and the modernisation of control software for tomography experiments in view of the upgraded EBS experimental stations (beamlines).

As experiments require higher and higher throughputs of samples, greater automation is required, particularly at institutes like the ESRF, which operates 24h a day, 6 days a week. To achieve this goal, we need to modernize the control software for tomography experiments and to add a higher level of automation.

You will contribute to the design and implementation of the new tomography data acquisition software as well as to the experiment automation.

One major task will be the installation of a robotic sample-changer and the implementation of associated logistics to enable automatic sample centring and screening. The results of the automated procedures need to be made easily accessible to the scientists, who can thereby identify the best strategy for their experiments and use screening results to identify the best samples to be used for a full data acquisition. In parallel, you will work with the software engineers and scientists on the modernization of tomography data acquisition for EBS.

Your missions will be the following:

• Contribute to the integration of the the sample changer robot on tomography end-stations
• Implement algorithms for automated sample centring and sample screening
• Process screening results and develop a GUI for scientists
• Set-up an acquisition sequence from a list of selected samples
• Analyse the needs of tomography beamlines for the EBS with scientists and control system experts
• Contribute to the core development of new tomography data acquisition software

Software Engineer Job Requirements

PROFILE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Higher university degree (Master or equivalent 300 ECTS diploma in Computing Science, Software Engineering or related area
• 3 to 8 years of professional experience in software development with Python
• Skills in PyQt programming and object-oriented software architecture
• Experience in the field of image processing would be a strong asset.
• Curiosity and good communication skills are required, so that you may interact with people of different domains such as physicists, electronics and software engineers.
• Proficiency in English (working language at the ESRF)

Software Engineer Application Information

If you are interested, please apply online by 15 April 2018.

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