Control engineer

The ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, www.esrf.eu) is a joint facility supported and shared by 18 European countries where Spain is included. Furthermore, the member countries can form groups, located at the ESRF site, to exploit some of the ESRF beamlines (the Bending Magnets). These groups, which design, construct and operate their own beamlines are called Collaborating Research Groups (CRG).

BM16 (http://www.esrf.eu/UsersAndScience/Experiments/CRG/BM16/) is a Spanish CRG funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología and DURSI, and managed by the Laboratori de Llum Sincrotró (LLS, www.lls.cells.es). BM16 is a Beamline optimized for the accomplishment of experiments in protein crystallography (PX) and diffraction of small and wide angles (SAXS and WAXS). The LLS consortium initiated the project of the new synchrotron facility, ALBA (http://www.cells.es/), being built near Barcelona.

Your Profile:

Engineer or  technician in Telecommunication, Electronic or Computer science, or Licensed in Physics with specialization in scientific instrumentation. Knowledge and expertise of the following subjects would be advantageous

- computer science of control systems for scientific instrumentation (Software and Hardware).

- the use of communication protocols for control remote implementations.

- UNIX/Linux systems and language C/C++. Other languages and systems such as SPEC, Python and Java will be taken into account.

The ability to adapt to different tasks is important. Your work methodology, good communication skills in English and/or French, motivation and team oriented personality are necessary for you to succeed.

Your tasks:

You will work on the control system and data acquisition of the beamline, following the ESRF  specifications when possible. You will be involved, in collaboration with the beamline scientists, in the successfully running and continuous improvement of the beamline. Your work and availability for trouble shouting will be essential to ease the beamline operation and contribute to the successfull accomplishment of the users experiments at the beamline.

We are looking forward to your application

Please send your CV to Enric Vinyals, LLS, Edifici Ciències C-3, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain or to his electronic address: evinals@cells.es with the subject: "BM16 job vacancy. Control Engineer ".

A motivation letter and the names of two referees are not mandatory but they will be appreciated.

The starting date will be as soon as you are available. Depending on the incorporation date the candidate will be overlapped with a senior engineer to facilitate his formation.

The annual salary will be equivalent to the one of equally qualified ESRF personnel with equivalent activities