Beamline engineer - temporary position (6 months)

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 40 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.


MAX IV is a Swedish national large-scale research laboratory hosted by Lund University. It provides scientists from Sweden as well as internationally, with state-of-the-art instrumentation for research in areas such as engineering, physics, structural biology, chemistry and nanotechnology. Fully developed it will receive more than 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

The MAX IV Controls and IT team (KITS) deliver solutions to the whole MAX IV organisation in the areas of control system hardware, controls software applications, infrastructure and networking, information management and scientific software. This is a dynamic and highly challenging environment and requires close collaboration with the staff in order to understand the needs and be effective in forming solutions. We are around 50 people in total who work in 5 domains in a well organised and agile way. We hold values of lean management, knowledge spread, user autonomy, continuous improvement and flexibility as guiding principles for our work.



We are looking for a person with experience of working with experimental instrumentation.

The work will consist of technically evaluating beamline components under public procurement particularly regarding motion. Also, commissioning systems that integrate timing, motion, detection, and positioning, is a part of the every day tasks. The hardware team work in an agile way in close collaboration with all other IT teams, beamline staff and scientists, also with other groups in an open and friendly environment.

Tasks

- Evaluate technical documents during procurement phase, especially with focus on motion.
- Installing and commissioning electronics hardware equipment for the MAX IV facility.

Required Qualifications

- Master degree in electronics, system engineering or equivalent.
- Experience from data acquisition systems integrating motion and timing, particularly IcePAP.
- Experience in motion on beamlines. 

Additional Desirable qualifications

- Experience of MAX IVs formal and informal processes.
- Experience of working in a research oriented large facility.
- Experience from any of the topics: stepper motors, piezo motors, nanometer precision encoders, measurements with synchrotron beamline equipment, python programming.
- Experience of any of the following:  IcePAP, Alba Electrometer, PandABox, Sardana, Tango or other community developed systems.

On call services may apply in the future.

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