Software Developer for Experiment Control and Metadata Handling

 Your Job:

  • Work closely with software engineering teams at JCNS and other facilities participating in the open source development
  • Participate in the international HMC project defining standards for the acquisition, storage and exchange of metadata collected during experiments
  • Apply the agreed-upon standards to the existing open source SECoP implementation written in Python
  • Improve the framework and develop further open source device drivers and data acquisition components for SECoP
  • Deploy SECoP to our neutron scattering instruments and work with experimental physicists and instrument scientists using it
  • Present research results at scientific meetings, conferences and as scientific papers



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Your Profile:

  • Diploma or master degree in informatics, physics, computer science or related fields
  • Relevant software development experience in Python (especially hardware communication and network programming) on Linux platforms
  • Familiarity with test-based development, continuous integration and version control systems, e.g. git
  • Prior participation in open source software development is a big plus
  • Self-motivated personality, with the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team environment on scientifically challenging problems
  • Very good command of written and spoken English


Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change! We support you in your work with:

  • Exciting working environment on an attractive research campus, ideally situated close to the city of Munich
  • Challenging and varied work in a growing multicultural team of enthusiastic professionals
  • A comprehensive further training program
  • Visibility of our products in the web, public git repositories, through scientific publications, and at schools and conferences
  • Optimal conditions for work-life balance as well as a family-conscious corporate policy
  • Flexible work (location) arrangements, e.g. partly mobile working
  • Flexible working hours in a full-time position with the option of slightly reduced working hours
  • 30 days of annual leave and provision for days off between public holidays and weekends (e.g. between Christmas and New Year)
  • Targeted services for international employees, e.g. through our International Advisory Service


We offer you an exciting and varied role in an international and interdisciplinary working environment. The position is for a fixed term of 2 years. Salary and social benefits will conform to the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund) depending on the applicant’s qualifications and the precise nature of the tasks assigned to them.

Place of employment: Garching (München)

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, e.g. in terms of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation / identity, and social, ethnic and religious origin. A diverse and inclusive working environment with equal opportunities in which everyone can realize their potential is important to us.

We look forward to receiving your application by 12.9.2022

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