For our location in Hamburg we are seeking:

Scientist - Optics Technology

Unlimited | Starting date: earliest possible | ID: FSMA019/2025 | Deadline: 26.06.2025 | Full-time/Part-time | Remote work possible

DESY, with more than 2900 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.

For high-end synchrotron radiation applications, the storage ring PETRA III is one of the most brilliant 3rd generation X-ray sources. A cornerstone of DESYs photon science strategy is the upgrade of the existing PETRA III synchrotron radiation user facility into a diffraction limited storage ring, PETRA IV. The project offers many challenges in the field of state-of-the-art X-ray optics. The demands on optical surface qualities and metrology techniques as well as mechanical pointing stabilities under cryogenic cooling and very high heat loads are significant. Overcoming these challenges is a key mission of the beamline technology (FS-BT) group as the team is responsible for the development, design, construction and operation of the photon beam transport to the experimental stations at DESY.