Your Tasks
Maintain, develop, and advance XDS and related data-processing software across macromolecular crystallography, electron diffraction, serial crystallography, small-molecule crystallography, and adjacent techniques, ensuring it remains robust, performant, and trusted by the community
Define and drive the roadmap for DECTRIS' crystallographic software across these techniques, evolving it for modern detectors and computing environments
Act as DECTRIS' scientific point of contact for the global crystallography and structural-biology community, supporting users and gathering their needs
Build and manage scientific and technology partnerships that strengthen DECTRIS' software and extend its scientific reach
Work closely with a professional software engineer and with external partners to translate scientific methods into reliable, production-grade tools
Engage with beamline scientists, facilities, and key users across the major diffraction techniques to ground software development in real experimental requirements
Represent DECTRIS' software and scientific capabilities, internally and within the community
Your Skills
PhD in crystallography, structural biology, physics, or a related discipline, with deep expertise in diffraction data processing (5-10 years) and openness to work across techniques - macromolecular and small-molecule crystallography, electron diffraction, and serial crystallography
Recognised standing in the crystallographic or structural-biology community, with an established track record beyond the early-career stage
Experience translating scientific methods into software, whether hands-on or by working closely with developers, and comfort collaborating with professional software engineers
Excellent communication skills in English
Willingness to travel internationally up to 30% of the time We'd love:
A forward-looking outlook on how crystallographic software and scientific computing are evolving, and the openness to help drive that change
Strong partnership and stakeholder management skills, high emotional intelligence, and a collaborative, non-hierarchical working style
Hands-on familiarity with crystallographic data-reduction software (e.g. XDS-class tools: spot finding, indexing, integration, scaling)
We Offer
A successful and growing high tech company in an international, scientific environment
To join the global leader in HPC X-ray detectors for science and industry. Our Developers design cutting-edge detectors to support the state of the art science and technology
An international work environment formed by more than 170 experienced engineers, scientists and other professionals. The company languages are German and English
Excellent, flexible working arrangements to enable professional development and personal life balance
An attractive working environment: modern infrastructure with wheelchair-accessible rooms, small fitness room, underground car park, subsidised meals, free snacks and drinks, various company events, internal and external training, home office options, after-work beers and other joint leisure activities
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Your Future Team
DECTRIS D.LAB Team
The DECTRIS D.LAB Team accelerate scientific discoveries by bringing science labs' data, tools, compute, and analyses into one place. We develop a platform to empower scientists around the world to efficiently get the most out of their data in a collaborative manner. DECTRIS D.LAB has entered the market and is scaling up.
DECTRIS Ltd. · Taefernweg 1 · 5405 Baden-Daettwil
www.dectris.com · Phone: +41 56 500 21 00 · jobs@dectris.com
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