Forschungszentrum Jülich pursues cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the pressing issues of our time. It helps to solve the grand challenges facing society in the fields of energy and environment as well as information and the brain. With more than 5,500 employees, Jülich – a member of the Helmholtz Association – is one of the large interdisciplinary research centres in Europe.


The Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS) operates neutron scattering instruments at the world leading sources ILL (Grenoble), SNS (Oak Ridge), and FRM II / MLZ (Garching), makes them accessible to scientists from other institutions, and uses them for its own research on magnetism and soft matter. The Scientific Computing Group of JCNS at Garching develops open-source software for the analysis of scattering experiments, and supports in-house and external instrument users. It cooperates in an EU funded network with homologous groups at Grenoble, Oxford, and Copenhagen.

The Scientific Computing Group of JCNS at Garching currently has a vacancy for a



Postdoctoral research scientist (f/m)
for scientific software development and data analysis



Your Job:

- Participation in our collaborative open-source software development
- Contribution to the research program of the JCNS, especially to data analysis
- Freedom to develop your own scientific agenda


Your Profile:

- University degree and PhD in physics or a related subject
- Experience in software development
- Interest in both service-oriented and research-oriented work
- Communication skills in English and willingness to learn some German


Our Offer:

- Challenging and varied work in an international team
- Employment initially for a fixed term of three years
- international, interdisciplinary working environment
- Full-time position with the option of slightly reduced working hours
- Salary and social benefits in conformity with the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Civil Service (TVöD)

Forschungszentrum Jülich aims to employ more women in this area and therefore particulary welcomes applications from women.



We also welcome applications from disabled persons.



We look forward to receiving your application, preferably online via our online recruitment system (http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Stellenangebote/_common/dna/2015-111-EN-JCNS.html?nn=363560) until 22.06.2015, quoting the reference number 2015-111.



Contact:
Kristin Urbach
Phone: 02461 61-9700
www.fz-juelich.de