Lund University, 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.

We are looking for a person, highly experienced with working on experimental instrumentation either from a engineering perspective or as a scientist. The work will consist of designing, building and commissioning systems that integrate timing, motion, detection, and positioning, data collection and eventually metadata collection in a form that is scientifically usable, predominantly for end stations. We are typically using equipment developed in collaboration with other facilities. Experience of working in collaborations is of course an advantage. The hardware team work in an agile way in close collaboration with all other IT teams, beam line staff and scientists, but also with other groups in an open and friendly environment.


Tasks
• Designing, building, installing, commissioning and optimizing experimental setups for MAX IV Facility. The KITS group are supporting all our beam line groups including spectroscopy, imaging and diffraction/scattering. 


Required Qualifications
• Experience from building experimental setups in a large research facility environment
• Ph.D. or Master degree in electronics, system integration engineering, circuit design, timing, computer science or other relevant topic for the tasks.
• Experience of integrating electronics and measurement equipment with software, preferably Python.


Additional Desirable qualifications
• Technical experience working with the following devices: stepper motors, piezo motors, nanometer precision encoders, timing and event handling, detectors / cameras both for beam line surveillances as well as photon and electron detection.
• Knowledge and experience with python programming, fpga programming, network configuration, circuit design.
• Experience of any of the following: IcePAP, Alba Electrometer, PandABox, Sardana, Tango or other community developed systems, MRF, Libera.

Type of employment Permanent 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 PA2020/420
Contact
  • Peter Sjöblom, +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
  • SEKO: Seko Civil, 046-222 93 66
Published 07.Feb.2020
Last application date 28.Feb.2020 11:59 PM CET

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