Full time / Permanent

Software Engineer (Data Acquisition Core)

Posted by Diamond Light Source • Didcot, England, United Kingdom

📍 Didcot, England 🕒 January 30, 2026

About the Role

About the Role

We now have an opportunity to recruit two Software Engineers in the Data Acquisition Core Team, working at the heart of the redevelopment of the Scientific Software Stack used to run experiments on all Diamond’s beamlines and instruments. Working collaboratively with other software and support teams as well as beamline scientists, this role is fundamental to the development of the updated Software Platform that will be used to manage and carry out Scientific Experiments at Diamond in future. Involving gathering requirements, designing, implementing and deploying software solutions as part of the overall Diamond II software architecture, this role will have a key impact on Science at Diamond going forward.

This role offers the opportunity to make significant contributions to the software architecture which Diamond will use to run experiments for many years to come. As a modernisation project, it embraces current industry approaches with an em...

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