Data Acquisition Engineer

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.



Work duties and areas of responsibility
- Develop the data acquisition platform that receives streamed data from different sources in MAX IV beamlines
- For the data sources that do not provide an streamer interface, develop a converter, e.

g. from files on disk to streamed data
- Understand and spread the knowledge on data formats, data manipulation, on the fly analysis
- Parallel processing in order to profit of the DAQ cluster resources right after the data is retrieved for further processing
- Develop basic data visualisation tools like Live View

Duties
- 95% development software
- 5% Knowledge dissemination, either within the team or attending conferences

Requirements
- University degree
- Physics/Software Engineer education
- PhD in related field as a merit
- Experience in Software development and Data streaming 

Desirable
Experience in:
- Data curation
- Parallel Computing
- Scientific Computing
- Data visualisation

Other
The position potentially may require to learn new tools and libraries and adapt them to the data acquisition platform. There will be chances to get more insight into the scientific computing and analysis part of the project. There is also a possibility for improving communication skills, attending conferences and giving in-house lectures.



On call services may apply in the future.

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