Job Description

Your responsibilities

Are you passionate about industrial controls and computing? Would you like to work with the most modern automation and software engineering technologies?
Then join our Converter Controls Software team (CSS) in the Accelerator Systems Department (SY) and contribute to the controls of some of the largest power systems of CERN.

This position is dedicated to work on the development of bare-metal software for the new power converter control platform (FGC4).

As a C++ Software Developer, you will: 

• Join the effort to produce highly efficient and reliable code that controls, monitors and diagnoses power converters by integrating the core libraries as well as implementing all the miscellaneous features that allow operators to interact with these devices;
• Collaborate in the FGC4 voltage loop project. 
•  Applicants must have a good understanding of modern C++, Linux, continuous integration methodologies and good communication and planning skills. Knowledge of embedded systems and System On Chip platforms will be advantageous.

 

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Proficiency in C++ and Linux;
• Knowledge of continuous integration methodologies; 
• Good communication and planning skills; 
• Experience working with git, gitlab, CI/CD, embedded systems and SoC will be an advantage; 
• Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Software engineering (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 3rd June at 12:00 AM (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: SY-EPC-CCS-2024-94-GRAP

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-October-2024

This position requires:

• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6212 and 6828 Swiss Francs per month (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

We are on a Quest. A Journey into discovery like no other. Bring your expertise to our unique work and develop your knowledge and skills at pace. Join world-class subject matter experts on unique projects, in a Quest for greater knowledge and deeper understanding.

Begin your CERN Quest. Take Part!

 

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