Job description

In this role you will support the new product developments in Malvern Panalytical's X-ray fluorescence (XRF) products, which are used for materials analysis in scientific and industrial product and process control. You will contribute to the architecture, design, coding and (automatic) testing of the software.

What are your responsibilities?

• You will acquire, maintain and disseminate knowledge of up-to-date software technology and its potential application for Malvern Panalytical.
• You will ensure that the software design is in-line with company wide architectural guidelines and you will contribute to defining these guidelines.
• You will ensure that the software design is robust, resulting in accurate, reliable and maintainable programs.
• You will be working with X-ray systems and solving product problems, as they relate to software and related systems engineering issues.
• You will work closely together in a team in a multi-disciplinary environment, to design and implement new features in our analytical user software, to test the correct functioning of user software and assist in test automation.

Your profile

• You have strong analytical capabilities; you get energy from solving complex problems for a diversity of products and systems.
• Strongly results-driven with respect to customer products: Ability to think and act as an end user with emphasis on key product quality indicators, such as analytical performance, ease of use, robustness and speed.
• Able to communicate designs to different audiences, carefully considering the abstraction level.
• Able to lead the design process, resulting in solutions which are supported by the software team.
• You can lead-by-example while implementing new concepts.
• A drive to work in a high-tech environment with the ambition to develop products with a strong competitive edge.
• You have worked with Agile development processes.
• You have worked with real-time embedded software.
• You are familiar with test methodologies.
• You are fluent in English and prepared to (learn to) understand Dutch.
• Computer science (BSc) education, and experience with technical automation.
• Experience with ANSI C, C# and agile methodologies and test-driven development.
• Experience with real-time operating systems (preferably μC/OS II).