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@InProceedings{wilson:icalepcs2019-mocpr01,
author = {A.A. Wilson and T.M. Cobb and U.K. Pedersen},
title = {{Graduate Software Engineer Development Program at Diamond Light Source}},
booktitle = {Proc. ICALEPCS'19},
pages = {97--100},
paper = {MOCPR01},
language = {english},
keywords = {controls, software, experiment, detector, hardware},
venue = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems},
number = {17},
publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
month = {08},
year = {2020},
issn = {2226-0358},
isbn = {978-3-95450-209-7},
doi = {10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOCPR01},
url = {https://jacow.org/icalepcs2019/papers/mocpr01.pdf},
note = {https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-MOCPR01},
abstract = {Diamond Light Source is the UK’s synchrotron facility. The support and development of the beamlines and accelerators at Diamond requires a significant quantity of specific knowledge and skills; the opportunity to acquire these beforehand is not available to many early in their career. This limits the field of candidates who can begin working independently at the level of software systems engineer. The graduate software engineer development program was started in 2015 to provide a route for engineers who are recent graduates or new to the field to develop the required skills and experience. Over the course of two years it comprises a series of projects in different groups, mentored on-the-job training and organized training courses. The program has recently been expanded to cover all groups in the Scientific Software, Controls and Computation department at Diamond, with an intake of four new engineers per year. This paper presents the structure and development of the program and invites discussion with other organizations to share knowledge and experience.},
}