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As a spin-off of the Paul Scherrer Institute and by focusing on the needs of our customers, we are able to combine scientific excellence with qualified service and industrial know-how.\nOur scientists as well as our technical and commercial experts ensure that our customers benefit from the latest technologies.\nDECTRIS values collaborative working rather than traditional hierarchy and is guided by the principles of Sociocracy 3.0.\nSenior Scientific Lead\nYour Tasks\nMaintain, 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\nDefine and drive the roadmap for DECTRIS' crystallographic software across these techniques, evolving it for modern detectors and computing environments\nAct as DECTRIS' scientific point of contact for the global crystallography and structural-biology community, supporting users and gathering their needs\nBuild and manage scientific and technology partnerships that strengthen DECTRIS' software and extend its scientific reach\nWork closely with a professional software engineer and with external partners to translate scientific methods into reliable, production-grade tools\nEngage with beamline scientists, facilities, and key users across the major diffraction techniques to ground software development in real experimental requirements\nRepresent DECTRIS' software and scientific capabilities, internally and within the community\nYour Skills\nPhD 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\nRecognised standing in the crystallographic or structural-biology community, with an established track record beyond the early-career stage\nExperience translating scientific methods into software, whether hands-on or by working closely with developers, and comfort collaborating with professional software engineers\nExcellent communication skills in English\nWillingness to travel internationally up to 30% of the time\nWe'd love:A forward-looking outlook on how crystallographic software and scientific computing are evolving, and the openness to help drive that change\nStrong partnership and stakeholder management skills, high emotional intelligence, and a collaborative, non-hierarchical working style\nHands-on familiarity with crystallographic data-reduction software (e.g. XDS-class tools: spot finding, indexing, integration, scaling)\nWe Offer\nA successful and growing high tech company in an international, scientific environment\nTo 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\nAn international work environment formed by more than 170 experienced engineers, scientists and other professionals. The company languages are German and English\nExcellent, flexible working arrangements to enable professional development and personal life balance\nAn 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\nhttps://www.dectris.com/career\n Application Form\nback to jobmarket\nYour Future Team\nDECTRIS D.LAB Team\nThe DECTRIS D.LAB Team accelerate scientific discoveries by bringing science labs' data, tools, compute, and analyses into one place. 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