Software Systems Engineer / Senior Software Systems Engineer

Diamond Light Source

📍 Didcot, England, United Kingdom

Full time / Permanent Computer Occupations Posted January 28, 2026

Job Description

About the Role

We currently have opportunities for Software Systems Engineers/ Senior Software Systems Engineers to join our Beamline Controls Group. The successful engineers will work in a research-focused environment alongside world leading scientists and professional engineers to address technically challenging problems as we deliver new beamlines for Diamond-II.

The accelerators and photon beamlines are controlled through a distributed, heterogeneous computing environment, using embedded systems for direct control of the instrumentation, together with Linux workstations for the operator interfaces. These systems make extensive use of open-source software, including the EPICS Distributed Control System tool kit. The distributed control systems comprise a wide range of technical domains such as motion control, instrumentation, robotics, and automation, as well as data acquisition.

You will contribute to the development and support of distributed c...