Tescan develops and manufactures advanced imaging and analytical systems that help scientists and engineers explore the micro- and nano-world. Our technologies include electron microscopy, FIB-SEM, micro-CT, laser solutions and 4D-STEM, and are used, for example, in materials research, the semiconductor industry, the life sciences and the geosciences.

The company was founded in Brno in 1991 and today operates globally in more than 80 countries. Brno remains the company’s headquarters and one of our key development and manufacturing centres. Since July 2026, Tescan has been part of the Shimadzu Group and operates as Tescan, A Shimadzu Company.

Find out more at www.tescan.com.

Software development

Software is an integral part of our scientific instruments. Development is therefore not just about programming itself – our software engineers work closely with colleagues from the fields of physics, electronics, mechanical design, embedded development, application teams and other technical areas. The work also involves testing and validating solutions directly on microscopes and other Tescan instruments.

As part of our software development, we focus on areas such as:

• the development of user interfaces and user interaction,
• control and automation of scientific instruments,
• processing and visualisation of 2D and 3D data,
• analytical data processing,
• design of application and computational algorithms,
• the development of software interfaces and tools for other applications.

We work with technologies such as C/C++, C#, Python, Qt, Git, CMake, OpenGL and other tools depending on the specific product and project.

Our developers work on software that forms part of complex scientific instruments used by researchers and technology companies around the world.

About our collaboration with FI MUNI

TESCAN has been collaborating with FI MUNI on a long-term basis as an SME partner. Every year, we announce topics for bachelor’s and master’s theses focusing on the computer processing of 2D and 3D images from electron microscopes (e.g. stereometry, image denoising, automatic image focusing, etc.).
We regularly take part in SPP Days, where our colleagues from the software development team are keen to give students a glimpse behind the scenes of software development for electron microscopes. We have also delivered specialist presentations at the faculty (e.g. as part of the ‘Introduction to Digital Image Processing’ course).
We plan to further expand our activities at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University.

About us through the eyes of a FI MU graduate

Michal Fecko

“What I appreciate most about working at TESCAN is the great team and the commitment to keeping pace with modern technologies. The knowledge I gained at university that’s most useful here is an understanding of the principles of good object-oriented programming (SOLID, KISS…).”

How to get involved

Bachelor’s/Master’s theses

You can find the currently available topics here. If you are interested in any of the topics, or are considering a topic of your own, please do not hesitate to contact us.

What we expect from students:

• to be in their third year or above at university,
• the ability to spend at least 2–3 days during the working week at TESCAN (i.e. 16–24 hours per week),
• at least an intermediate level of English,
• an interest in the field and a willingness to learn.

Contact

Adriána Moré
Talent Acquisition Partner
Email: adriana.more@tescan.com