Software Engineer

Excillum is a leading company in the field of high-end microfocus and nanofocus X-ray sources. Our mission is to enable new science, improve medicine and enhance manufacturing by continuous development of state-of-the-art X-ray sources. Here you can listen to your future colleague Björn talk about our X-ray sources and how our journey started.

As a software engineer at Excillum you will work in a broad role and play an important role in the development of new products as well improvement of existing products sconnected to our X-ray systems’ software. A software using mostly C ++ and Python in a Linux environment. Your team's tasks are, among other things, to work on finding an as precise "X-ray spot" as possible.

You will also:

- 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, CI/CD and error handling
- Develop and support the GUI/HMI of the sources




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 learnt 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.

To succeed in this job...
We believe you are a communicative, positive and humble team player who enjoys facing challenges and celebrating success together with the team. You are not afraid to take on responsibilities and you thrive in learning new things and developing.

On top of this, you also have…

- Some years of work experience within software engineering and with strong knowledge in C or C ++
- A M.Sc. within the fields of engineering software, physics, electronics, mechatronics or similar


- Professional knowledge in English, written and spoken

What can we offer you?
- 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 task 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.

We look forward to your application! If you have any questions regarding the role do not hesitate to contact Sanna at sanna.smidvik@excillum.com.