Lunds universitet, MAX IV, Controls & IT

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 47 000 students and more than 8 800 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.

Lund University welcomes applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We regard gender equality and diversity as a strength and an asset.

Tasks
As a member of the hardware team you will be involved in the process of defining/designing, installing, configuring and debugging hardware devices that a beamline needs to successfully operate and reach it’s research goals, particular the Cosaxs and Veritas beamlines. When there are no commercial  hardware suitable for our needs, we develop what we need, preferably together in collaboration with other synchrotron facilities that faces the same challenges as we do. You will come in contact with motors, position detectors, electrometers, power supplies, cameras, electron and photo detectors and much more. We work in close collaboration with many groups, especially the controls software group. Your work will overlap with theirs with a common goal of building world class research beamlines.
This is the opportunity to learn and to increase your skills, competence and experience. In an international facility such as MAX IV you will meet open minded people from different perspectives. Inside the KITS group, composed of network, system, hardware engineers and scientific software experts, we promote a devops style cross functional team.

Requirements
In order to apply for this position you are required to have:
-A university degree and at least 2 years of working experience
-Proven experience working with analog or digital electronics.
-Experience of Veritas, CoSAXS or similar beamline electronics hardware, or similar synchrotron beamline.

Desirable
-Previous experience in working at a research oriented facility.
-Hardware and Electronics: FPGA, DAC, ADC and other GPIO, motion, robotics.
-Software engineering: Python, test, continuous integration and deployment.
-Network and System infrastructure: TCP/IP layers, fiber, OS configuration

Type of employment Temporary position
Contract type Full time
First day of employment As per agreement
Salary Monthly salary
Number of positions 1
Full-time equivalent 100 %
City Lund
County Skåne län
Country Sweden
Reference number PA2019/3162
Contact
  • Peter Sjöblom, gruppchef Hardware, +46702999397
Union representative
  • OFR/S:Fackförbundet ST:s kansli, 046-222 93 62, st@st.lu.se
  • SACO:Saco-s-rådet vid Lunds , 046-222 93 64, kansli@saco-s.lu.se
Published 26.Sep.2019
Last application date 13.Oct.2019

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