Software engineers / data processing experts for X-ray data analysis

The upgrade of the ESRF synchrotron source has led to a steep increase in data volumes and throughput, for a wide range of X-ray experimental techniques, including scattering, spectroscopy, tomography and coherent imaging techniques. All those areas require new or improved tools for the online and offline data processing and analysis of experimental data, suitable for a wide community of users.

Each job (maximum duration 36-months) will consist in developing a suite of tools in one of the following areas in X-ray science:

• spectroscopy: workflows and graphical interfaces for X-ray spectroscopy techniques (XAS)
• powder diffraction and small-angle X-ray scattering: develop a tool for the quantitative analysis of large 1D-to-4D scattering maps
• dark field imaging: improve the existing darfix software, and the automation of large datasets
• tomography: online data processing for full-field tomography
• coherent diffraction imaging: develop widgets and implement workflows for online data processing of CDI in the small and Bragg angle regime.
• 3D grain mapping: streamline multiscale 3D/4D grain mapping for the 3DXRD and Diffraction Contrast Tomography (DCT) techniques

All the developments will be done in Python, exploiting existing software (including high-performance computing solutions) in the specific areas (spectroscopy, scattering, imaging), as well as more generic toolkits (silx, ewoks,..) developed for data processing and visualisation at ESRF.

You will work in the Algorithms & scientific Data Analysis (ADA) group of the Experiments division, in close collaboration with the Software Group's Data Automation Unit (DAU) and multiple beamlines exploiting the different techniques. Further information about the post can be obtained from Vincent Favre-Nicolin (favre@esrf.fr).