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
DECTRIS is a successful and expanding high-tech company that develops and produces X-ray and electron detectors. Our detectors are used worldwide in large-scale research facilities and in industry. Their unique properties enable scientific breakthroughs in life sciences and material sciences. Our more than 170 employees are located in Switzerland, the United States and Japan. At DECTRIS, we combine innovation and development with agile industry practices. As a spin-off of the Institute and by focusing on the needs of our customers, we are able to combine scientific excellence with qualified service and industrial know-how. Our scientists as well as our technical and commercial experts ensure that our customers benefit from the latest technologies. DECTRIS values collaborative working rather than traditional hierarchy and is guided by the principles of Sociocracy 3.0.
