Summer worker IT software

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top universities. The University has around 45 000 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.


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




Your team
The Software group provides MAX IV with a wide range of software solutions for the facility’s scientific endeavors.

Among others we provide control system solutions following international standards in synchrotrons such as web-based user interfaces, distributed hardware control, scanning tools for running experiments, acquiring and saving data and metadata, etc. As a very important part of MAX IV, the functionality and the reliability of the control and acquisition system software is continuously developed to meet the research requirements. 
In our team you will meet open minded people from different perspectives. Being part of the Software group, you will have a close collaboration with network, system, and hardware engineers and scientific software experts. We promote a DevOps style workflow.

Would you like to work at one of the brightest lightsources in the world?

MAX IV is looking for a summer worker to join our software team to work on a web application integrated with our control system.
We are starting the implementation of a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for an end-to-end status monitoring system for Beamline Experiments. This system will provide real-time status updates sourced from the Tango control system layer for each beamline, presented through an intuitive frontend webpage.

Your main work tasks will be

- Implementation of a server in python to publish the control system status data to a web-server, using pytango library.
- Development of a web page in JavaScript to display the status data received from the publisher device.

To be successful in this role you need to have the following qualifications

- Following a university curriculum.
- Completed at least 120hp (equivalent to two year's fulltime studies).
- Experience in developing software with the programming languages: JavaScript and Python.
- Further knowledge about git, APIs, microservices, docker and Kubernetes would be beneficial.

As a person you are a team player, communicative and collaborative, curious and eager to learn. You must be minimum 18 years old and fluent in English.

What we offer
When you join our MAX IV team, you step into a world of front edge science. We make the invisible visible by supporting scientist from all over the world, generating scientific results for the benefit of society. We offer you a multicultural work environment with great opportunities for personal development with respect for a healthy work-life balance.

Would you like to work in a challenging and supporting environment? Then join us and take the opportunity to make a real difference!

For further information, please visit:
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/work-lund-university
http://www.sweden.se
https://www.maxiv.lu.se/about-us/careers/compensation-benefits/

 



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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. It will receive up to 2 000 scientists annually, conducting ground-breaking experiments in materials and life sciences using the brilliant X-ray light.

The ICT teams at MAX IV are placed under the Technical Division and deliver solutions to the whole MAX IV organisation in the areas of electronics, software, infrastructure and scientific data. This is a dynamic and highly challenging environment and requires close collaboration with the beamline staff in order to understand the needs and be effective in forming solutions. We are around 50 people in total who work in 4 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.

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