Software Engineer to Excillum!

Do you want to work with the company behind the world´s brightest X-ray tube? Great, then you´ve come to the right place! Excillum is a leading company in the field of high-end microfocus and nanofocus X-ray sources and was founded in 2007 by researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). If you have some years of work experience as a Software Engineer within C or C++, a strong interest for embedded systems, innovative and unique technology and are looking for a tough (but fun) technical challenge in a growing company – look no further, welcome to Excillum!

OM TJÄNSTEN
Currently, Excillum offer the MetalJet source, based on the company-founding metal-jet-anode technology, and the NanoTube source powered by their refined e-beam technology. The metal-jet technology was invented by the company´s founders in 1999 and today, they offer a growing range of the MetalJet and NanoTube X-ray sources based on the key technologies to customers all over the world. Since the start, Excillum has grown to be currently around 70 coworkers in Stockholm and are all working on the same mission: to enable new science, improve medicine, and enhance manufacturing by continuous development of state-of-the-art X-ray sources. They have hired several employees during both 2020 and 2021 and as the expansion continues, they look to grow the Software Engineering team. Currently there are four other Software Engineers, working cross functionally and collaborating with electrical and mechanical engineers as well as compliance engineers, researchers, production, support and sales. Excillum are headquartered in Kista, where they have R&D, engineering, lab, and production all in house.

Some words from your future manager

Hello! My name is Gustav and I’m the software engineering manager at Excillum. I started my journey with Excillum 5 years ago as a software engineer and have leant a lot by working with the incredibly skilled team here. I enjoy my time at Excillum because of the team, the technical challenges, and the possibilities a head. My believe is that to create a comfortable and engaging working environment knowledge sharing, teamwork, technical challenges, and personal development are important and should be cherished.

You are offered

* A company with a friendly and helpful work environment with humble and motivated colleagues who take their time to help and answer questions.
* To work for a company in the very forefront of their area, currently, there is no other company in the world who can compete with their technology.
* The opportunity to work with a wide range of work taks and a chance to get an understanding for the whole domain.
* "A role with great responsibility" – Maybe you have heard that before? 😉 But with Excillum, it also means that you will play an important role in discussions and technical decisions, choice of tools and designing of work processes, great responsibility but also good support and great influence of what is developed.
* You will be part of a company with a strong engineering culture and work closely with experts within electronics, software, and mechanics – we believe that this will create good opportunities for you to develop both as a Software Engineer but also within other technical areas.

ARBETSUPPGIFTER
You will work in a broad role and be involved in development and maintenance of Excillum´s X-ray systems’ software. A software using mostly C ++and Python in a Linux environment and you will get the chance to work with a large spectrum of software assignments. Excillum's products are used both in the research area and industry, and right now they are investing in both entering new markets and with new products in the coming years. Great focus and resources are invested in the software and you as a software engineer will play an important role in the improvement of existing products as well as development of new products. Your team's tasks are, among other things, to work on finding an as good "X-ray spot" as possible, the right size and directed in the right direction to ensure that you measure the right things. In future products, this may, for example, involve x-raying car batteries to ensure that there is no short circuit in order to avoid accidents in traffic.

You will for example…

* Work on developing user-friendliness, interface and error handling in the software
* Develop and implement algorithms to enhance x-ray performance
* Design and implement SW infrastructure
* Work closely with Excillum's customers to understand their needs and be able to integrate with their systems more easily
* Work with testing and CI/CD
* Develop and support the GUI/HMI of the sources
* Debugging
* Support when there´s questions from for example production, support and sales
* Contribute to workflow and process improvements++

VI SÖKER DIG SOM
In this recruitment process we will attach great importance on your personal skills and your interest for this position and Excillum as a company. You are probably motivated by new challenges and likes to share your knowledge with your team as well as contribute to improvements of ways of working.

On top of this, you also have…

* A M.Sc. within the fields of engineering software, physics, electronics, mechatronics or similar
* Some years of work experience within software engineering and with strong knowledge in C or C ++and Python
* Knowledge in agile methods such as Scrum
* Professional knowledge in English, written and spoken

Other information

* Start: Immediate, but an eventual notice period or other circumstances will be considered
* Work extent: Fulltime
* Location: Kista in Stockholm, Sweden
* This recruitment process is conducted by Academic Work. It is a request from Excillum that all questions regarding the position are handled by Academic Work.
* Contact information: Recruitment Consultant Johanna Sörell, [email protected]
* Our selection process is ongoing and the advert may close before the recruitment process is completed if we have moved forward to the screening or interview phase.++

INFORMATION OM FÖRETAGET
Read more about Excillum on their website: https://www.excillum.com/