Intended start of employment: Nov/Dec 2021 Intended working time: Full-time, 40h/week

Your tasks:

• Development and extension of control software modules for SPM/SPL systems (Scanning Probe Microscopy / Scanning Probe Lithography), including:
  • Graphical user interface and user interaction
  • Integration of new hardware components and communication protocols
  • Development and implementation of advanced signal and image processing algorithms, e.g. for visual pattern alignment
  • Implementation of unit tests
  • Implementation, extension and documentation of interface (API) libraries
  • Optimization regarding speed and stability
  • Code cleanup
  • Documentation
• Local first-level customer support regarding software-related questions
• Perspective to take an executive position in a software development team

Your profile and qualification:

• Profound English language skills, written and spoken
• Profound programming skills in C++; at least 3 years of practical experience
• Integration and utilization of the Qt Framework with C++ under Microsoft Windows 7 and later
• Confident usage of Qt concepts like QObject tree, SIGNAL-SLOT mechanism, QSettings, Implicite Sharing, Meta-Object system, GUI development
• Building of statically and dynamically linked libraries (LIB/DLL) for Microsoft Windows; knowledge of basic concepts like DLL memory allocation and binary compatibility
• Basic UML modelling
• Basic knowledge of the WinAPI
• Experience with distributed version control systems (Mercurial, GIT)
• Ability to work in a team
• High degree of self-organization and responsibility
• Willingness to learn something new, to teach oneself and to reach out for ambitious goals

Appreciated skills:

• Experience in image processing, pattern recognition, cameras and optics in general
• Basic in applied AI (artificial intelligence)
• Basics of C# and the Microsoft .NET framework
• Experience with Python
• Basics of MATLAB and Simulink
• FPGA programming (Xilinx hardware and tools), both plain VHDL and Simulink
• Knowledge about communication protocols (USB, Ethernet, serial) and their implementation
• Experience in software development with Microsoft Visual Studio (version 2010 and later)
• Basics of object-relational client-server databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL and the like
• Basic server administration (Windows, Linux)
• Executive capabilities, project management and collaborative software development