Software Engineer

The consortium for Construction, Equipment and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Laboratory (CELLS) is jointly funded by the Spanish State Government through its Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Ministry of Education and Science) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Autonomous Government) through its Departament d’Universitats, Recerca i Societat de la Informació (Department of Universities, Research and Information Society).

The consortium will construct and operate the Synchrotron Light Facility, named ALBA, in the Barcelona area (Valles Occidental). This is one of the most exciting Research Projects currently undertaken in Spain.

CELLS offers you a unique opportunity to participate in this adventure as part of a dynamic team with many possibilities in an great environment. Come and join us!

The control section software section consists of 15 permanent staff members. The section will be part of the computing and electronics division with its 40 staff member.

• You will be part of the Group in charge of data acquisition and controls for both Accelerators and Beamlines.

• You will write PLC programs, data acquisition services, and Graphical user interfaces for the various equipment protection systems.

• You will help during the installation process, in particular contributing to the installation and commissioning of the Equipment Protection System, and supervision of turn-key systems, in particular the Personnel Safety System.

• Engineer degree, physicist or similar.

• Programming skills in at least one of these languages Python, Java, C++.

• PLC programming.

• Good communication skills.

• High level of spoken and written English.

• Willingness to learn new things.