Introduction

Are you a rigorous administrative assistant looking for position in an international environment? Do you have excellent communication skills in French? Then join CERN’s focal point for diplomatic relations with the Host State authorities (France and Switzerland) and make your contribution to the effective functioning of the Organization.

You will join the Host State Relations section (IR-DS-RH) in the International Relations sector, which liaises with public Administrations in the Host States, working closely with all CERN Departments and the Organization’s other Services.

Functions

As an administrative assistant, you will:

• Provide administrative assistance to the IR-DS-RH section (managing agendas, incoming and outgoing phone calls, e-mails, official duty trips, meetings);
• Organise meetings, events and visits;
• Draft e-mails, letters, minutes and presentations;
• Work on archiving relevant information;
• Seek and receive official information, provide assistance for documents editing, proof-reading, follow-up and distribution;
• Cooperate with CERN departments and liaise with interlocutors in the French and Swiss public administrations on situations requiring interactions with the Host States, such as visa issues, etc.;
• Provide official information to internal and external interlocutors in relation to the Organization’s rules and procedures.

Imagine getting involved in work that is changing the world and imagine doing it before you’ve left university. Imagine working in an international environment and having a great quality of life.

Take part in CERN’s Administrative Student Programme! 

There’s no better way to learn than on-the-job. When that job happens to be in a world-famous organisation and centre of scientific excellence, even better. If you’re an undergraduate in Administration and are looking for a practical training period or a place to complete your final project, you could spend 2 to 12 months at CERN during the course of your studies (Bachelor or Master). If your university requires or encourages you to acquire work experience through an internship, imagine doing this at CERN in Geneva. 

It could be in any of the following disciplines: translation, human resources, advanced secretarial work, business administration, logistics, law, finance, accounting, library and information science, engineering management, science communication, education, audiovisual, communication and public relations, psychology, audit are but a few examples of the many domains in which successful applicants will learn and contribute their knowledge.

A panel of CERN experts meets three times a year in February, June and October, to review all applications, and typically around 50 students are selected to join the programme annually.

Your responsibilities

You will become part of the SY-STI-RBS section within CERNs Accelerator Systems Department, bridging across scientific fields such as nuclear physics, material science, atomic physics and chemistry. With more than 50 years of experience in the domain of radioactive ion beam production and numerous international collaborations in this field, you can find an environment to accelerate your career

We are ooking for a nuclear physicist (or similar) to take charge of development and characterization of radioactive ion beam (RIB) produced at CERN-ISOLDE. ISOLDE is an experiment dedicated to the production of radioactive ion beams for physics research using the isotope separation on-line (ISOL) method.

In this position, you will:
- lead the development and characterization of radioactive ion beams produced at ISOLDE;
- support the coordination and characterization of targets and respective RIBs using the ISOLDE infrastructure;
- support the implementation of a second fast tape station as a complementary tool for more access to beam characterization;
- implement an implantation setup as well as an alpha decay spectroscopy setup for the study of long-lived and alpha-decaying nuclei;
- manage the weekly yield measurement campaigns, manage the user driven demand for new RIB deliveries and take part in the proton-energy upgrade study.

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Skills and/or knowledge

• Knowledge of Python, Labview, ORACLE and GIT;
• Knowledge of mass spectroscopy, ion sources and nuclear decay spectroscopy;
• Experience in project management;  
• Experience with detector technology (alpha, HPGe, beta) would 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 Applied Physics (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 fellow or graduate contract before.

Introduction

Are you an Applied Physicist with hands-on experience in trigger systems for a large High-Energy Physics experiment? Would you like to contribute to upgrading, developing, maintaining and operating the system for one of the largest particle-physics experiments in the world? Do you have strong skills in C++ programming? Then, take part! Contribute to the operation and maintenance of the existing ATLAS first-level central trigger system, and to the development, testing and commissioning of upgrades for it, with particular emphasis on the associated online and offline software.

You will join:

• Experimental Physics Department (EP), which carries out basic research in the field of experimental physics. It aims at providing a stimulating scientific atmosphere and remains an important reference centre for the European physics community. It contributes to the education and training of young scientists.
• ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition Group (ADT), which has major responsibilities in the trigger and data acquisition system. Its activities span every aspect, from development and operation of custom trigger hardware, to high-level physics selection algorithms via data conveyance and control infrastructures.
• Trigger Section (TR), which plays an important role in both the first-level trigger and the high-level trigger. This position is specifically in the first-level trigger area, where CERN is in charge of the central trigger system that is based on custom digital electronics.

Functions

As an Applied Physicist in the TR Section, you will contribute to CERN’s responsibilities on the ATLAS Trigger Activity and the Trigger/DAQ System. You will be expected to work on a wide range of first-level trigger aspects, including:

• The development and maintenance of online and/or offline software associated with the central trigger.
• Testing, commissioning, operation and maintenance of the system.
• Contribute and take a leading role in the improvements and upgrades of the system.
• Participate in a team of experts that assures the smooth functioning of the DAQ system 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and supports its integration with other ATLAS sub-systems. Act as one of the on-call experts.
• Supervise fellows and students.

The Performance Assessment and Electrical QA section (PE) is a dynamic team of physicists, electrical engineers, and technicians specialized in the operation and electrical qualification of superconducting accelerator magnets and circuits and their protection systems. The upgrade to high luminosity of the LHC machine will require the installation of tens of new superconducting magnets. You will join the STEAM team (http://cern.ch/steam), which assists the design and testing of these magnets with multiphysics simulations.

As an Applied Physicist / Electrical Engineer working at CERN, you will:

• Perform electro-magnetic and thermal simulations of transients occurring in the magnet circuits;
• Validate and improve the existing multiphysics models of the STEAM library;
• assess failure cases and worst-case scenarios that can occur during circuit testing;
• Analyze powering and protection tests;
• Understand any unexpected event that may occur during the magnet test campaigns.

More information here: http://cern.ch/steam

Who we are looking for

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Physics (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.

Skills and/or knowledge

• Electromagnetic and circuit simulations;
• Python;
• Thermodynamics;
• Ability to work in a team;
• Knowledge of data analysis, Matlab, PSPICE, quench, superconducting magnets, and circuits are an asset;
• You should have a working knowledge of English or French.

Your responsibilities

The candidate will oversee the procurement of small pitch, thin column 3D silicon pixel sensors and follow up the production with the company. They will characterise the timing performance and radiation hardness of a range of samples. The characterisation will be carried out with a dedicated electronic board, both in testbeam and the lab, and studies will be done bonded to Timepix4 ASICs. The candidate will contribute to the Timepix4 telescope test-beam campaign and participate in the project to design a future radiation hard sensor with internal gain.

More information here: https://lhcb.web.cern.ch

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Skills and/or knowledge

• Experience of characterisation of silicon sensors.
• Experience of handling and characterisation of irradiated silicon sensors.
• Knowledge of simulation and design of sensors and/or electronics is an advantage.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data and summarise the results of measurements and document results.
• 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 Applied Physics (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.

Take part in CERN’s Doctoral Student Programme! 

This is a chance to work on your thesis while spending up to 36 months at the forefront of science. Whether you’ve already chosen a subject or are still making your decision, if your specialism is Applied Physics, Engineering or Computing, this is an invitation to further your knowledge in a truly unique organisation. In fact, it’s an invitation to get involved in world-famous experiments of unprecedented scale and scope. An invitation to join an environment like nowhere else on Earth.

You will have the opportunity to work in a diversity of fields at the cutting edge of technology: applied physics, IT, mathematics, electricity, electronics, mechanical or civil engineering, instrumentation for accelerators and particle physics experiments, materials science, radiation protection, safety and environmental protection, science communication, surveying, ultra-high vacuum are but a few of the examples of the many domains in which successful applicants will learn and contribute their knowledge.

The following link provides few examples of doctoral student projects currently available. If any of these are of specific interest for you, please mention when completing your application on the "note to hiring manager" text field. Please note this is not mandatory nor a guarantee that these projects will be the ones for which you are selected: you may be selected on another project that matches your profile. 

Note: students specialising in theoretical or experimental particle physics are not eligible to apply for this programme.

Introduction

The Engineering Department (EN) pushes forward the limits of technology so that physicists can carry out their research. Within the Electrical Engineering (EL) group of the EN department, you will join the Maintenance and Operation (MO) section, which is in charge for the maintenance and operation of CERN electrical transmission and distribution network, the commissioning of new electrical installations, and the execution of small works.

Are you a qualified and proactive electrical engineer, specialized in Power System Protection for medium and high voltage networks?

Contribute your skills and experience to the operation, maintenance, consolidation and expansion of CERN's electrical transmission and distribution network, at the heart of one of the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider. Join the CERN electrical engineering team. Take part!

Functions

As a Power System Protection Engineer in the Maintenance and Operation (MO) section, you will be responsible for the management of the overall lifecycle of protection relays, part of CERN's electrical transmission and distribution network, from design and procurement to commissioning and maintenance.

You will:

• Update and maintain the whole protection plan for CERN transmission and distribution network.
• Draw up technical specifications and all tendering documents for the implementation of the protection plan, in particular the purchase of protection relays, and manage related contract(s).
• Program and test protection relays configurations (logics).
• Assist the design office in preparing installation plans and calculating protection settings, through fault simulations in the network model.
• Lead the commissioning of protection relays on site (functional testing, current injections, troubleshooting) by preparing dedicated procedures and supervising commissioning operator(s).
• Elaborate a comprehensive preventive and corrective maintenance plan, including spare parts management and lead its implementation.
• Define the methodology to integrate the protection relays and the associated maintenance activities, in CERN Computerized Maintenance Management System.
• Manage and deliver specific refurbishment projects for the replacement of obsolete protection relays.
• Participate to the standby team, in charge of corrective interventions when fault occurs.

The development and production of superconducting magnets, a key enabling technology for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its successors, relies on robust characterization of superconducting wire and cable. The superconductor laboratory in CERN's Magnets, Superconductors and Cryostats Group is a leading test facility, having qualified thousands of kilometres of Nb3Sn, Nb Ti and MgB2 wire and cable for the High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC project) at 1.9-4.3 K. To equip the laboratory to characterise and qualify superconductors meeting the needs of accelerator magnets for proposed future circular colliders, significant upgrades are planned, including new critical current test stations for measurements at or above 18 T.

This project will play a key role in implementing these upgrades, including:

• Consolidating magnetization and inter-strand resistance measurement systems

• Commissioning new superconducting magnets and critical current test stations

• Coordination of cryogenic infrastructure upgrades

• Test station and sample-holder design and implementation

• Data acquisition development

• Contribution to potential additional test facilities

Who we are looking for

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Electrical Engineering, Physics (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.

Skills and/or knowledge

• Electromagnetic testing of superconductors (e.g. critical current, magnetometry); design and production of test equipment; cryogenics; data acquisition development; scripting for data analysis;
• You should have a working knowledge of English or French.

Introduction

The Engineering Department (EN) pushes back the limits of technology so that physicists can carry out their research. Within the Electrical Engineering (EL) group of the EN department, you will join the Cabling Services Section which is responsible to install copper signal cables, standardised racks and DC power cables for magnets in the accelerators and experimental areas. The section provides engineering installation support to the CERN users, centralises their cabling requests.

Are you an experienced electrical technician looking to take part in the deployment, maintenance and extension of critical signal, racks and DC-power cabling installations in a large industrial setting? Contribute your skills to the magnet-powering infrastructures that constitute CERN's accelerator complex. Take part!

Functions

As an Electricial Technician in the Cabling Section, you will actively contribute to the continuous extension, consolidation and maintenance of CERN's cabling installations, in particular signal, racks and DC cabling, constituting the infrastructure for the various systems of the CERN accelerators (e.g. vacuum system, alarms systems, magnet powering system).

You will:

• Participate in studies including the definition of the cable types, the connectors assembly, the wire conventions, the routing and the mechanical supports, in collaboration with users and considering the constraints of the work environment.

• Draft the necessary computer-based work files (e.g. schematics, written instructions) for the contractors and users.

• Organise cabling and de-cabling campaigns with external and internal coordination stakeholders (contractors)

• Organize and manage worksite meetings.

• Monitor the progress, the safety and the quality of the works.

• Conduct performance and acceptance tests.

• Organize maintenance activities, fault-finding, elaborate and perform critical repairs or installation modifications when required.

• Prepare and update technical documentation, procedures, and specifications.

• Technical supervisory functions (i.e. contractors and graduates) will be required.

Introduction

Experimental Physicist

You will be part of the Experimental Physics (EP) Department, which carries out basic research. This Department aims at providing a stimulating scientific atmosphere and remains an important reference centre for the European physics community.

Functions

The selected candidate will play an important role in one or more projects of particle physics experiments at CERN, involving the conception and design of experiments, the development and operation of detectors and the analysis of data.

Your responsibilities

In the Legal Section of the HR department, you will drive a major revision of CERN's internal legislation. At CERN, the Staff Rules and Regulations ("SRR") are regularly revised to adapt to the Organization's changing requirements. The current edition of the SRR dates from 2007 and has undergone more than twenty series of amendments. The aim of this project is to oversee the publication of a new edition and to reflect the changes in CERN's subsidiary legislation (administrative and operational circulars, and other administrative documents). Beyond the editorial aspect, the publication of a new edition will be an opportunity to improve CERN's internal legislation from the point of view of coherence and clarity.

Under the supervision of senior HR Legal advisors, you will also contribute to other HR Legal projects and activities such as:

- Drafting and/or revising existing legislation to reflect important policy changes

- Providing legal advice to HR services

- Drafting official submissions and communication in appeals and disciplinary procedures

- Performing legal research (ILOAT case-law) and benchmarking exercises with other IGOs and analysis on HR-related legal issues

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Knowledge of international administrative law (relevant experience in an intergovernmental organization represents an advantage)
• Excellent drafting skills
• Excellent oral communication skills
• Pro-active attitude and team spirit
• Fluent in both English and French.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in International administrative law (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.

Your responsibilities:

As a member of the project team of the "CNGS Target Area Dismantling" project, within the AWAKE project, you will support the team both with your technical engineering skills and communication and organisational skills. First of all, you will familiarise yourself with the environment and processes of the AWAKE dismantling and the subsequent CNGS target area dismantling, together with the different work package leaders.

Planning & coordination:

You will take all the inputs from CNGS dismantling and AWAKE stakeholders to develop, follow up and document the planning. Furthermore, you will follow up on the on-site activities in line with the planning and address coactivity where necessary, all while ensuring CERN's general and radiological safety rules are respected.

Engineering & safety support:

You will assist the project leader with integration, installation and infrastructure studies, with the help of a dedicated design office. You will participate, with the work package leaders and the Safety correspondent, in compiling the general safety and radiation safety documentation of the CNGS dismantling. After collecting information from AWAKE regarding their future installation in the dismantled CNGS target area (laser, electron source, magnets, plasma cells, etc.), you will define and ensure execution/installation of what is needed to prepare the emptied CNGS target area for the AWAKE installation (shielding, basic services).

Within the AWAKE project and the CNGS dismantling project, you will be part of a dynamic team of young, competent and enthusiastic scientists and engineers.

More information here: https://awake.web.cern.ch/

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Skills and/or knowledge

• Communicating effectively
• Demonstrating accountability
• Solving problems
• Managing self
• Organisational management: organisation, planning and control
• Experience with MS Project or similar software would be an asset
• Fluent in English. A basic knowledge of French would be an asset or have an undertaking to acquire it rapidly

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State
• You have a professional background in 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.

The Beam Interlock System (BIS) is a critical machine protection system of CERN's accelerator chain, from the first linear accelerator to the Large Hadron Collider. A new version of the BIS hardware system is under development.

You will join the software engineering team (https://mpe-cb.web.cern.ch/) of the TE-MPE group and work together to provide new supervision software for the BIS:

• A data service exposing a clear API for users;
• High level supervision and monitoring applications to present the system and its data - Data analysis, to understand the performance of the system;
• Alarms and notifications to operation crews and system experts.

As a Java Software Engineer working at CERN, your key responsibilities include:

• Collect and analyse the requirements from the diverse stakeholders of the BIS;
• Design and develop the software solutions following the CERN quality standards;
• Regularly present the solutions to users and to collect feedback.

More information here: https://mpe-cb.web.cern.ch/

Who we are looking for

Eligibility criteria

(please note, meeting all eligibility conditions are essential for your application to be considered for this role. Candidates who don't meet the mandatory eligibility criteria, listed below, will not be considered for the position).

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Computer Science (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.

Skills and/or knowledge

• Knowledge of Java, Spring Framework, API design, Spark, Git. C++ and/or Python3 would be an asset;
• Ability to work in a team and to participate in design discussions;
• Knowledge of Scrum/Kanban would be an asset;
• You should have a working knowledge of English or French.

Introduction

Do you have proven skills and experience in public international law and the law applicable to intergovernmental organisations or in practising commercial/contract law? Are you keen to work in the Legal Service of one of the world’s leading scientific intergovernmental organisations? Then, come and join a unique environment whose core value is excellence, and whose defining characteristic is teamwork. CERN, take part!

You will join the Legal Service, which, reporting to the Director-General provides legal support for the execution of CERN’s mission within its applicable legal framework.

Functions

The Legal Service is recruiting two additional Legal Advisers.

You will perform your duties at CERN’s headquarters outside Geneva, under the overall supervision of the Legal Counsel.

Working within the Legal Service team and with colleagues across the Organization, you will:

• Provide legal advice on CERN’s governance and international status, as well as its internal functioning;
• Contribute to the drafting and implementation of internal legislation, policies and frameworks;
• Practise either
  • in the area of institutional and administrative law, including investigations and internal justice matters, and/or
  • in the area of commercial law, in particular in respect of procurement activities, including for major civil engineering works, and significant financial transactions;
• Advise and, as needed, defend the Organization in employment and Pension Fund cases, including before the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILOAT) and/or in commercial and contractual disputes, including in adjudication and arbitration proceedings;
• Interact with a broad range of interlocutors, both internally and externally.

In addition to your core functions, you may be assigned work in other legal domains.

Introduction

Do you have proven skills and experience in public international law and the law applicable to intergovernmental organisations? Are you keen to work in the Legal Service of one of the world’s leading scientific intergovernmental organisations? Then, come and join a unique environment whose core value is excellence, and whose defining characteristic is teamwork. CERN, take part!

You will join the Legal Service, which, reporting to the Director-General provides legal support for the execution of CERN’s mission within its applicable legal framework.

Functions

As a Legal Adviser in the Legal Service, you will perform your duties at CERN’s headquarters outside Geneva, under the overall supervision of the Legal Counsel.

Working within the Legal Service team and with colleagues across the Organization, you will:

• Provide legal advice on CERN’s governance and international status, as well as its internal functioning, in particular with respect to institutional matters;
• Interact with a broad range of interlocutors, both internally and externally, in particular the authorities of CERN’s Host States, France and Switzerland, at both local and national levels;
• Contribute to the drafting and implementation of internal legislation;
• Advise and, as needed, defend the Organization in litigation matters, including before the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILOAT).

In addition to your core functions, you may be assigned work in related legal domains.

Introduction

Are you a talented technical engineer, passionate about activities coordination and maintenance? Do you have experience with electrical installations? Are you comfortable in a collaborative environment aiming to improve quality and processes? Then join the Electrical Power Converter group for a unique challenge as the next step in your career. CERN, take part!

You will join the Accelerator Systems Department (SY), which is responsible for the beam-related technical systems of the CERN accelerators. The SY teams design, build and operate equipment systems in all CERN accelerators, and are engaged in ambitious forward-looking R&D programmes.

You will be working within the Electrical Power Converter Group (SY-EPC), responsible for the power converters installed in the whole CERN accelerator complex, and the Operation Maintenance Support Section (EPC-OMS), a section transversal to the group, whose members participate in the production, operation and maintenance of all the electrical power converters.

Functions

As Maintenance and Support Technical Engineer, you will coordinate activities related to electrical power converters and participate to the quality assurance development of SY-EPC Group.

As responsible for the infrastructure installation of Power Converters Control Systems, you will:

• Participate in the definition of Power Converters Control Systems architecture;
• Collaborate with the dedicated services for:
• The supply and installation of the different Power Converters Control System components;
• The integration and connection of Power Converters Control Systems to electrical and communication networks;
• Follow up and report of the progress of activities and major milestones with all the stakeholders;
• Testing and validation of the Power Converters Control Systems;
• The proper documentation of all activities as listed above.

As part of the Quality Assurance team of the group, you will:

• Develop harmonized processes, procedures, instructions and document management for the electrical power systems of the group;
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of stand-by service and maintenance activities.

Introduction

With a total of 130 km of vacuum vessel, CERN operates one of the largest vacuum systems in the world. Are you ready to operate such systems and develop innovative surface treatments to improve their performance? Are you interested in pursuing an intense R&D programme preparing the future of this unique accelerator infrastructure? Then come and join the Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings Group! Take part!

The Vacuum, Surfaces and Coatings Group is responsible for all high and ultra-high vacuum systems for the CERN accelerators. Its mandate covers all activities from development to operation, including design, production and procurement, surface engineering and analysis, acceptance tests, control and monitoring. The Insulation & Injector Vacuum Operation section (IVO) takes care of the operation and upgrade of vacuum systems that are essential for CERN accelerators, including those of cryostats of superconducting magnets and those of the Large-Hadron-Collider (LHC) injection chain. The IVO section is also active in knowledge transfer programmes involving industries and other laboratories.

Functions

Within the VSC Group of the TE Department, you will:

• Develop, implement, and operate innovative processes for the production, surface treatments and testing of vacuum components.

• Operating, maintaining and consolidating complex and highly specialised ultrahigh vacuum equipment, instruments and prototypes for particle accelerators, including those for thermal insulation of cryogenic magnets.
• Carry out research as part of studies of materials and surfaces optimisation for accelerator beampipes, propose test programmes and present results in technical and scientific meetings.
• Play an active role in multidisciplinary projects, maintaining close collaboration and cooperation with teams in charge of other engineering, materials or chemical facilities CERN-wide.
• Manage procurement and industrial services contracts, including the follow up of production in CERN workshops and in the industry.

As a Mechanical Engineer in the Technology Department (TE), Cryogenics Group (CRG), Mechanical and Engineering support section (ME), you will participate in the Hi-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC working on tasks relating to the dismantling and modification of the vacuum insulated cryogenic line in the LHC tunnel (QRL):

• Dismantling of the QRL in Point 1 and Point 5:
  • Support the project engineer to complete the definition of the project:
    • Collect, coordinate and document technical information;
    • Perform technical studies and investigations to define the requirements and constraints;
    • Develop the specialized tools and techniques required to complete complex dismantling tasks accounting for the constrains imposed by the LHC tunnel environment.
  • Produce the technical specifications required to place contracts with industry for the work;
  • Collaborate with the HL-LHC project office to integrate the work into the schedule for Long shut down 3 (LS3);
  • Collaborate with CERN radiation protection group to coordinate the radiation protection aspects, relating to dismantling techniques and the management and recycling of QRL components classified as radioactive waste;
  • Develop the strategy for the disposal and storage of cryogenic equipment removed from the LHC tunnel;
  • Coordinate the project documentation;
  • Participate to the Design Reviews and project status meetings.

• Rework of existing QRL components for reuse with the HL-LHC cryogenic distribution system (QXL):
  • Direct Current Super Conducting Link (DSL):
    • Complete the definition of the modifications.;
    • Support the design and manufacture of new equipment, specifically the cryogenic splice box and mechanical supports.
  • Q5 Service Module and related pipe elements:
    • Define the requirements, plan the upgrade and organize the supply of components.

• Production of new cryogenic systems for the QRL:
  • Q4 Magnet Cryogenic Service Module:
    • Support the project engineer to complete the specification and follow the production with the supplier.
  • Special Step and Pipe elements:
    • Support the project engineer to define the requirement and sourcing;
    • Complete the specification and follow the production with the supplier.

More information here: https://hilumilhc.web.cern.ch/

Your profile

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in MSc in field of mechanics, thermodynamic (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.

Skills and/or knowledge

• Knowledge of mechanical design of systems and structures;
• Knowledge of thermodynamics and fluid dynamics;
• Experience with engineering documentation and projects;
• Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be a plus.

Your responsibilities

We are looking for a mixed-signal IC design engineer. The candidate will join our team of analog, digital, mixed-signal and verification engineers working on a stitched wafer scale monolithic particle detector ASICs implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process. These innovative sensors, severely constrained by yield considerations, have to meet very challenging requirements in terms of power, noise, circuit density and data rate.

The holder of this position will be self-motivated, willing to learn exciting technologies, and develop innovative designs. The person will be responsible of the design, implementation and verification of analog and mixed-signal low-power circuits, from study through definition and final implementation.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Essential skills and experience:
  • Schematic entry, simulation and layout of CMOS integrated circuits
  • Design experience of at least one analog block, e.g., CDR/PLL, DLL, bandgap, amplifiers, line driver
  • Good understanding of analog design flow and methodology
  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Capacity to easily integrate a multi-disciplinary team

• Desired skills and experience:
  • Process-Voltage-Temperature (PVT) corners, Layout Parameter Extraction (LPE) simulations
  • Analog behavioural modelling (Verilog-A/Verilog-AMS)
  • IRdrop/EM analysis
  • Scripting language (Python, TCL, Shell)
  • Hardware description language (Verilog, SystemVerilog)
  • Laboratory silicon bring-up evaluation and test experience

• 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 Electronics 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.

Introduction

As a member of the network and telecommunications support team of the Communications Systems Group (IT-CS), you will be responsible for the smooth and efficient operation of network and telecom services at CERN. The Communication Systems group supports network infrastructure that includes a campus network (fixed and Wi-Fi) with over 20,000 actives devices, two datacentres housing over 10,000 servers with high-speed connections to other research centres, as well as fixed and mobile telephony, TETRA digital radio services and a LORA based IoT service.

We use software developed in-house to manage and configure the network, as well as the Spectrum NMS for real-time monitoring. Developing a good working knowledge and understanding of these systems will be an important aspect of the role.

Functions

As a Network and Telecom Operations Technical Engineer, your main tasks will include:

• Monitoring incidents on the network infrastructure, follow-up with experts of the affected services;
• Advanced user support for complex requests and incidents reported by users;
• In-depth investigation and resolution of highly technical networking and telecom issues affecting various types of systems at CERN (industrial controllers, high performance computing applications etc.), in collaboration with experts from IT or other departments;
• Preparation and improvement of operational processes and procedures and liaison with the contractors responsible for following these procedures;
• Management of hardware devices including the testing of possibly faulty units and their return to the manufacturer;
• Coordination and announcement of incidents and planned interventions affecting the communications infrastructure.

Welcome to the Non-Member State Postdoc Fellowship Programme (Theoretical Physics)

Two postdoctoral fellowships are awarded each year by the Non-Member State Fellowship Programme in Theoretical Physics. The Fellowship is granted for two years and can exceptionally be extended to a third year.

Your responsibilities

As an Open Science community manager, you will join the Scientific Information Service at CERN.
Working in a small team, you will be responsible for co-designing, building and evolving our Open Science Office, which supports Open Science implementation at CERN. Together with colleagues outside the Open Science Office, you'll help to foster and grow the community's Open Science practices and to support the implementation of the Open Science Policy.

More specifically, you will take on the following responsibilities:

• Co-design the mandate, procedures and operation of the new Open Science office at CERN;
• Develop a monitoring framework for Open Science together with the community and implement respective monitoring tools and procedures;
• Design and support concrete implementation projects of the Open Science Policy, e.g. the development and handling of data management plans (DMPs) at CERN;
• Convene the community to advance Open Science practices, e.g. through workshops or seminars;
• Develop projects, e.g. updates on DMPs and training courses;
• Participate in and lead cross-team and cross-CERN initiatives to advance Open Science;
• Provide user and community support
   

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

Mandatory: 

• Experience with Open Science, preferably with a deep understanding of Open Science practices in a science domain;
• Experience with Open Science services and user support;
• Experience with community engagement;
• Fluent in English

Advantageous: 

• ​​Experience with modern monitoring tools
• Experience with Open Source
• Experience with presenting at events
•  Ability to work in French 

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Information Science or equivalent (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.

Introduction

As a valued member of our shift crew, the role of a Technical Infrastructure (TI) Operator holds significant importance at CERN.

This position involves closely monitoring key technical systems such as electrical power distribution, which spans from smaller 48V safety systems to the robust 400kV high voltage network. Additionally, you'll oversee critical installations like cooling, ventilation, IT systems and safety protocols for the entire facility and accelerators.

The responsibility of the TI Operator is to proactively identify any issues that may arise and promptly implement necessary corrective actions. By doing so, you play an essential role in ensuring uninterrupted particle beam production and smooth running of the physics experiments.

In the event of a major technical incident, such as a widespread power disruption, you'll take charge of coordinating response efforts, adhering to CERN's overarching priorities.

Join our team and contribute to the seamless functioning of ground-breaking scientific endeavours at CERN. Your expertise will be essential in maintaining the momentum of discovery and innovation.

Functions

Role Overview:

As a Technical Infrastructure Operator, you will be stationed in the CERN control room (CCC), operating on a rotational schedule that runs 24/7, 365 days a year. Your main responsibilities include monitoring systems, conducting remote diagnostics, and executing interventions. During off-shift periods, you'll leverage your expertise to contribute to system enhancements.

Responsibilities:

You will :

• Monitor and manage diverse systems through an integrated control system that consolidates crucial alerts related to cooling, ventilation, electricity, access control, IT, safety systems, and other technical domains at CERN.
• Utilize specialized and general Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems for remote diagnostics and operation of infrastructure systems.
• Generate and modify work orders, logbook entries, and event reports, documenting ongoing incidents for distribution to maintenance teams.
• Collaborate with users, physicists, and maintenance personnel via phone or in-person interactions to exchange information about system incidents and coordinate interventions as needed.
• Play a role in the implementation of new procedures, tools, and process enhancements alongside the team.

Are you an engineer willing to gain hands-on experience in a multicultural environment? Would you like to work in a place like nowhere else on Earth, which pushes the boundaries of knowledge with cutting edge technology, engineering, and science? We are looking for a Project Engineer to join CERN's Site Asset Management group to contribute to the ISO 50001 implementation process and energy management follow-up for our tertiary buildings.

CERN. Take part!

Our Site Asset Management group vision is to create an inspiring and welcoming environment for CERN's scientific community now and in the future, and our main responsibilities are:

• Monitoring the condition of current buildings and infrastructure on campus, and conducting relevant renovation and consolidation projects which include all phases from feasibility study and preliminary design to construction management and hand-over of complete structures and infrastructures;
• Providing drawing office support (design, drafting, calculations) to the department's activities, keeping up to date and maintain the CERN GIS system, providing geographical information and topography services, and managing administrative processes related to our site;
• Planning and implementation of maintenance measures and the study and early support of user-initiated construction projects, and often supervising the execution of mid-size construction projects, fully managed within the department. 

As a Project Engineer your main duties will be:

• Analysing documents/reports from external consultants on ISO 50001 and energy management (tertiary buildings);
• Developing of calculation methods for estimating energy consumption in unmetered buildings;
• Recording and organizing data from site energy meters (existing + new) in internal CERN tools (e.g. GRAFANA/TIMS);
• Contributing to the use and management of data with external tools (e.g. WebEnergy/OPERAT-ADEME)
• Analyzing data and draft reports to implement CERN's energy action plan for tertiary buildings;
• Interacting with the CERN "consolidation plan" project leader to update CONSO priorities according to possible energy savings;
• Analysing of energy saving results according to short (within a year)/ medium (5/10 years)/ long term (10-20 years) action plan.

Who we are looking for

(please note, meeting all eligibility conditions are essential for your application to be considered for this role. Candidates who don't meet the mandatory eligibility criteria, listed below, will not be considered for the position).

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in mechanical/electrical 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.

Technical knowledge and experience for this role:

• Experience in project management;
• Experience of managing budgeting and cost estimation;
• Knowledge of HVAC/electricity calculation;
• Knowledge of cost, quality, and schedule control;
• Health and Safety Awareness;
• Fluent in both English and French.

Introduction

Are you a Project Quality Officer, ready to define and carry out the quality control and assurance procedures as part of the Future Circular Collider study in CERN’s Accelerator and Technology sector? Take part!

Functions

As a Project Quality Officer, your main responsibility is project controlling including, but not limited to:

• Information quality management across all pillars and domains of the FCC feasibility study;
• Procurement management across all pillars and domains of the FCC feasibility study;
• Schedule and performance monitoring for host-state related activities;
• Project management of EU co-funded projects that are associated to the FCC feasibility study.

More specifically, you will focus on the following areas:

• Environmental aspect analysis of FCC surface sites based on particle accelerator, experiment, and technical infrastructure concept developments;
• EU co-funded projects;
• Subsurface investigation campaign;
• Sustainability enabling technology projects such as the excavation materials re-use, waste heat recovery and supply, renewable energy supply and storage, environmental information system establishment and operation;
• Technical/administrative support for FCC cost estimate;
• Organisation and coordination of working meetings with participants from the FCC collaboration and with companies.

Are you passionate about International Relations?

Would you like to contribute to the Protocol activities at the world's leading particle-physics laboratory?

Come and join the Protocol Office in the International Relations sector at CERN!

The Protocol Office leads the organisation of high-level visits and events at CERN. Every year, CERN receives close to high-level 150 delegations, representing more than 50 nationalities, led by heads of state and government, ministers, secretaries of state, ambassadors, members of parliament, and university rectors or representatives of scientific establishments and industries.

CERN will celebrate its 70th anniversary in 2024, which will bring an unprecedented number of delegations and involves planning and execution of a series of visits and events.

As a Protocol Officer, you will join the small, multi-tasking team of the Protocol Office and will contribute to the development of its work and support its mission.

The successful candidate will be an active member of the Protocol Office, mandated by CERN Director-General to organise the high-level components of the CERN 70th anniversary programme throughout 2024.

Your main duties will include:

• Develop content for high-level events and visits, including the main ceremony;

• Lead defined work packages on logistics, specific protocol requirements, and related budget;

• Coordinate with national delegations, develop national programmes and follow-up (with permanent missions, CERN delegates and national ministries, train advisers, and management liaisons);

• Participate in the daily activities of the Protocol Office, including leading the organisation of technical visits and management of projects.

More information here: https://international-relations.web.cern.ch/protocol-office

Who we are looking for

Mandatory eligibility criteria:

(please note, meeting all eligibility conditions are essential for your application to be considered for this role. Candidates who don't meet the mandatory eligibility criteria, listed below, will not be considered for the position).

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Social or Political Sciences (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.

Skills and/or knowledge

• You are service-oriented and fully aware of your obligations as a protocol officer;
• Excellent level of spoken and written English and fluent French are essential;
• Another CERN Member State language would be most welcome;
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills;
• Excellent organisational skills;
• Able to manage delicate situations tactfully and adapt to constantly changing requirements;
• Knowledge (end user level) of common office software tools;
• Rigour, desire to set high standards and speed of execution of tasks are important;
• Desire and ability to work in a team.

Training

In close collaboration with the Chief of Protocol, you will undergo training on protocol and its international standards, as well as the complete organisation of technical visits in a complex scientific environment, whose facilities underground are the special feature.

Your responsibilities

A high-intensity facility has been proposed for the underground experimental cavern ECN3 of the CERN SPS North Area. The facility provides worldwide unique opportunities in terms of intensity, energy and infrastructure for potential high-impact particle physics programmes that are complementary to the energy frontier. The implementation of a high-intensity facility in ECN3 requires a detailed radiation protection assessment to ensure safety of the personnel, public and environment, as well as to optimize the facility.

You will become a member of the Accelerators and Sites section, which is part of the Radiation Protection Group (RP) within the Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental Protection Unit (HSE). This section (AS) has the mandate to, amongst other things, assess the hazards of ionizing radiation from CERN installations and activities and their associated risks and define the appropriate protective measures.

In particular, you will:

• Perform extensive simulations with the FLUKA Monte Carlo particle transport code combined with ActiWiz and possibly writing analysis code.
• Help to optimize the facility design taking into account the prompt and residual radiation, soil activation and transfer of activation products to groundwater, air/He activation and environmental impact.

You will also have a unique opportunity to:

• Apply your skills to a concrete, challenging project;
• Develop new competences by collaborating with CERN physicists and engineers from diverse disciplines;
• Benefit from an extensive package of training;
• Present your work in conferences and workshops, seminars and/or articles.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Monte Carlo simulation codes for radiation transport
• Radiation protection concepts
• Programming skills (Python, C++, Fortran)
• Data analysis
• Good interpersonal and communication skills

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Physics or Nuclear 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.

Your responsibilities

As a Radio Frequency Engineer, you will join the Accelerators Systems Department (SY), which is responsible for the accelerator beam-related technical systems. This position is located in the Radio Frequency Group where you would join the team which is responsible for all superconducting cavities and cryomodules in the CERN accelerator complex.

In this role, you will work on the fabrication and testing of crab cavities to be installed in the future HL-LHC. More specifically, you will:

• Follow up on the fabrication of SRF Crab cavities in the industry; 
• Review and approve fabrication reports;
• Follow up on Radio Frequency measurements during fabrication of SRF Crab cavities;  
• Gradual takeover of responsibility for multiphysics simulations and data analysis to validate measurements and None-conformance reports related to crab cavities manufacturing and testing;
• Perform warm and cold (2 K) Radio Frequency measurements of Crab cavities and cryomodules at CERN;
• Coordinate activities inside CERN with different departments for the qualification and or preparation of SRF cavities.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Demonstrated knowledge of SRF cavity fabrication techniques with a primary focus on deflecting/crab cavities;
• Experience with Multiphysics simulations tools (CST, HFSS, etc.);
• Experience with RF measurements at 2K of SRF cavities;
• Knowledge of cost, quality, and schedule control
• Knowledge of Python is an asset;
• 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 electrical engineering or RF engineer (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.

Introduction

Are you an enthusiastic technical engineer looking to acquire experience in a high-tech environment, working on cutting edge superconducting RF problems? Take Part!

You will join the Accelerator Systems Department (SY), which is responsible for the beam-related technical systems of the CERN accelerators. The SY teams design, build and operate equipment systems in all CERN accelerators, and are engaged in ambitious forward-looking R&D programmes. You will be working within the RF Group, in the SRF Section.

As an RF technical engineer, you will be part of a team working on superconducting RF devices with the aim of assembling, maintaining and testing high-performance superconducting radio-frequency components and infrastructure for CERN’s accelerators, including present and future projects.

Functions

You will:

• Maintain and operate special facilities such as the ultrapure water production plant, high pressure rinsing systems, clean room technical systems;
• Design and realise special instrumentation and test setups, both for RF measurements and for slow controls and interlocks;
• Prepare and carry out warm and cold tests and measurements of superconducting RF devices (cavities, ancillaries, and cryomodules);
• Support operation of the superconducting RF accelerating structures installed in CERN accelerators: LHC, and HIE ISOLDE;
• Follow up procurements, qualification and acceptance of SRF cavities and cryomodules;
• Produce quality control procedures and document test results.

Introduction

You will join the software development for experiments (SFT) group (http://ep-dep-sft.web.cern.ch) which develops and provides support for scientific software for the High Energy Physics experiment collaborations at CERN and worldwide. The group is hosting the team supporting and developing ROOT (https://root.cern), used to store, statistically analyse, and visualise scientific data in High Energy Physics.

This position will ensure the development and maintenance of the statistical and mathematical packages of ROOT, such as RooFit, the ROOT component used heavily by physicists in the LHC experiments for modeling the observed physics event distribution and performing statistical analysis to measure physics parameters. A major reengineering of the existing C++ software code is ongoing in order to be ready for the analysis of the High-Luminosity LHC data. These improvements involve developing new interfaces for easier usability in both C++ and Python, implementing some of the workflows to run on GPU and better making use of new machine learning techniques such as automatic differentiation and probabilistic programming. The position requires regular interaction with physicists, experiments' physics groups, and attendance of related conferences and workshops to disseminate development news and solicit feedback on released and planned features.

Functions

• Drive the support, maintenance, and enhancement of RooFit and the ROOT statistical libraries according to the needs of the stakeholders community, including exploring, validating, and harnessing new technologies which could improve efficiency and ergonomics.
• Improve the usability of ROOT's features from Python.
• Organize the development agenda of the statistical libraries of ROOT, including constant coordination with ROOT's data analytic experts and with the external RooFit developers and with the physicists maintaining the LHC experiment statistical software tools.
• Organize technical meetings within and outside the ROOT project.
• Take part in the overall project organization, such as the plan of work, arranging for workshops, and representing the project and its vision.
• Engage with ROOT’s worldwide user community, foster collaboration and external contributions, and organize support channels.
• Supervise and coordinate tasks relevant to the ROOT project.

One of CERN’s key missions is education. Our experts enjoy sharing their knowledge with committed and passionate students.

If you are an undergraduate student in a technical or administrative field, and you’re looking to spend a few months training on-the-job, imagine doing your internship at CERN in Geneva. An impressive addition to your CV!

We offer a limited number of placements in our practical training programme.

Duration 1 – 6 months.

** Version française de ce poste disponible sur https://careers.cern/SESH **

One of CERN’s key missions is education. Our professionals very much enjoy sharing their knowledge and expertise with students who are committed and passionate about their chosen field.

Are you a student in a technical or scientific field, looking for an internship to apply your knowledge and get practical experience? Join us in the collaborative, knowledge-sharing and international environment of CERN, for a period up to 6 months.

Whilst CERN Jobs are open to all eligible candidates, as part of CERN’s commitment to advance inclusiveness and accessibility in the workplace this particular opportunity is reserved for students with disabilities.

Introduction

You will join the software development for experiments (SFT) group (http://ep-dep-sft.web.cern.ch) which develops and provides support for scientific software for the High Energy Physics experiment collaborations at CERN and worldwide. The group is hosting the team supporting and developing ROOT (https://root.cern), used to store, statistically analyse, and visualize scientific data in High Energy Physics.

This position will ensure maintenance and evolution of RDataFrame, the ROOT component used by physicists to define their analysis with a high level of abstraction, in its multi-threaded and multi-process versions, with interfaces and implementation in C++ and Python. The position requires regular interaction with physicists, experiments' physics groups, and attendance of related conferences and workshops to disseminate development news and solicit feedback on released and planned features.

Functions

• Drive the support, maintenance, and enhancement of RDataFrame according to the needs of the stakeholders community, including exploring, validating, and harnessing new technologies which could improve efficiency and ergonomics
• Organize the development agenda of the data analytics part of ROOT, including constant coordination with ROOT's I/O and statistics experts.
• Organize technical meetings within and outside the ROOT project
• Take part in the overall project organization, such as the plan of work, arranging for workshops, and representing the project and its vision.
• Engage with ROOT’s worldwide user community, foster collaboration and external contributions, and organize support channels.
• Supervise and coordinate tasks relevant to the ROOT project.

Introduction

Are you a skilled software engineer with experience in data acquisition systems and/or control systems? Do you have experience in C++ and Go software development? Do you wish to contribute to the brand-new computing systems of the ALICE experiment? This could be the opportunity for you! Take part! 

ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a dedicated heavy ion experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The ALICE Collaboration is studying the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities and temperatures. In Run 3+4 (2022-2029) ALICE will operate at a peak Pb-Pb collision rate of 50 kHz, with the data of all collision events read out, calibrated, reconstructed and compressed synchronously with the data taking. To achieve the physics goals, it is essential that the computing and control systems of the experiment operate reliably and deliver an operational performance compatible with the data taking efficiency goals of the experiment. 

The selected candidate will join the Experimental Physics (EP) Department which carries out basic research in the field of experimental particle physics in a stimulating scientific atmosphere, standing as an important reference for the European physics community. Within the EP Department you will be part of the ALICE O2/FLP team of the ALICE Detectors & Systems group (EP-AID). The ALICE O2/FLP team is in charge of the First Level Processor (FLP) computing farm, the detector readout chain, the data Quality Control software, the Experiment Control System and a portfolio of operational tools such as monitoring, logging, configuration and bookkeeping.

Functions

As a Software Engineer on the ALICE O2/FLP team, you functions will include:

1. Lead the design and development of the Experiment Control System (Go), which orchestrates data-taking operations across 2 computing farms, 5 central systems, and 15 detectors:

• Deliver innovative features to enhance data-taking efficiency and automate experiment operations.
• Engage with various ALICE stakeholders, prioritize tasks, and provide progress updates during meetings.

2. Contribute to the design and development of the Data Quality Control System (C++):

• You will actively participate in creating a robust system to assess the quality of physics data, both online and offline.
• Introduce new features to establish a highly accurate and automated data quality control feedback loop.
• Offer technical support to ALICE detector teams to ensure smooth system functioning.

3. Take part in overall ALICE Experiment Operations:

• Serve as the O2/FLP on-call expert, providing technical assistance to ALICE shift crews.
• Ensure the seamless operation of the ECS and QC systems.

Take part in CERN’s Technical Student Programme! 

If your university or institute requires or encourages you to acquire work experience through an internship, imagine doing this at CERN in Geneva. It’s more than work experience. In fact, it’s a student programme like nowhere else on Earth and an impressive addition to your CV!

If you are a student looking to complete practical training in domains related to Applied Physics, you will have the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of technology, contribute and broaden your knowledge in disciplines as varied as particle detector physics and their applications, analysis and simulation, data processing, radiation studies, beam instrumentation, optics, lasers, cryogenics, vacuum or thermodynamics to name a few.

Please note that students specialising in theoretical or experimental particle physics are not eligible to apply for this programme.

A panel of CERN experts meets three times a year in February, June and October, to review all applications, and on each occasion, typically 80 students are selected to join the programme.

Take part in CERN’s Technical Student Programme! 

If your university or institute requires or encourages you to acquire work experience through an internship, imagine doing this at CERN in Geneva. It’s more than work experience. In fact, it’s a student programme like nowhere else on Earth and an impressive addition to your CV!

If you are a student looking for practical training in domains related to Electrical or Electronics Engineering, you will have the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of technology, contribute and broaden your knowledge in areas as varied as high or low voltage electrical engineering, energy distribution, communication networks, computer systems, signal processing, microelectronics or radiofrequency to name a few.

Please note that students specialising in theoretical or experimental particle physics are not eligible to apply for this programme.

A panel of CERN experts meets three times a year in February, June and October, to review all applications, and on each occasion, typically 80 students are selected to join the programme.

Take part in CERN’s Technical Student Programme! 

If your university or institute requires or encourages you to acquire work experience through an internship, imagine doing this at CERN in Geneva. It’s more than work experience. In fact, it’s a student programme like nowhere else on Earth and an impressive addition to your CV!

If you are a student looking to complete practical training in domains related to general or civil engineering, surveying or safety, you will have the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of technology, contribute and broaden your knowledge in areas as varied as industrial and tertiary building structures, design and drafting, underground structures, roads, drainage, geotechnical engineering, safety risk management to name a few.

Please note that students specialising in theoretical or experimental particle physics are not eligible to apply for this programme.

A panel of CERN experts meets three times a year in February, June and October, to review all applications, and on each occasion, typically 80 students are selected to join the programme.

If your university or institute requires or encourages you to acquire work experience through an internship, imagine doing this at CERN in Geneva. It’s more than work experience. In fact, it’s a student programme like nowhere else on Earth and an impressive addition to your CV!

If you are a student looking for practical training in domains related to Information Technologies, Mathematics or Robotics, you will have the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of technology, contribute and broaden your knowledge in areas such as web applications, virtualised infrastructure development, distributed computing, databases, software development or system administration, using the most common programming and scripting languages.

Please note that students specialising in theoretical or experimental particle physics are not eligible to apply for this programme.

A panel of CERN experts meets three times a year in February, June and October, to review all applications, and on each occasion, typically 80 students are selected to join the programme.

Take part in CERN’s Technical Student Programme! 

If your university or institute requires or encourages you to acquire work experience through an internship, imagine doing this at CERN in Geneva. It’s more than work experience. In fact, it’s a student programme like nowhere else on Earth and an impressive addition to your CV!

If you are a student looking to complete practical training in domains related to Material and Surface Science or Chemical Engineering, you will have the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of technology, contribute and broaden your knowledge in areas as varied as mechanical testing of materials, magnetic measurements, metallography, surface treatment, optical and electronic microscopy, X-ray diffraction or radiochemistry to name a few.

Please note that students specialising in theoretical or experimental particle physics are not eligible to apply for this programme.

A panel of CERN experts meets three times a year in February, June and October, to review all applications, and on each occasion, typically 80 students are selected to join the programme.

Take part in CERN’s Technical Student Programme! 

If your university or institute requires or encourages you to acquire work experience through an internship, imagine doing this at CERN in Geneva. It’s more than work experience. In fact, it’s a student programme like nowhere else on Earth and an impressive addition to your CV!

If you are a student looking to complete practical training in domains related to Mechanical Engineering, you will have the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of technology, contribute and broaden your knowledge in disciplines as varied as structural mechanics and machine development, magnets, fluids or heating systems, mechatronics, computer aided design or metrology to name a few.

Please note that students specialising in theoretical or experimental particle physics are not eligible to apply for this programme.

A panel of CERN experts meets three times a year in February, June and October, to review all applications, and on each occasion, typically 80 students are selected to join the programme.

Introduction

The Engineering Department (EN) pushes forward the limits of technology so that physicists can carry out their research. Within the cooling and ventilation (CV) group of the EN department, you will join the LHC Section, which is in charge of the operation and maintenance of the cooling and ventilation systems of CERN’s experimental areas, including the ones dedicated to detectors. The activity includes the work site supervision for installation work and commissioning of new systems, upgrade of existing systems and consolidation of old systems.

Are you a qualified technician, specialised in industrial cooling and refrigeration installations? Contribute your skill and experience to the operation and maintenance of highly complex cooling plants in a unique environment hosting some of the world’s most complex technical installations. Join CERN’s Cooling and Ventilation operation team. Take part!

Functions

As a Technician, you will take part in the operation, maintenance and modification works of cooling systems that are essential for the operation of CERN scientific facilities.

You will:

• Plan (by using the CMMS system), coordinate, supervise, check and perform preventive and corrective maintenance activities on the cooling and ventilation plant, in particular on EN-CV`s technical infrastructure including water-cooling stations and distribution networks; HVAC systems; compressed air, refrigeration systems and demineralized water production and distribution plants.
• Perform operation activities to ensure appropriate running of these systems.
• Ensure regular liaison with users for all matters related to these systems.
• Propose and define the most appropriate solution to meet user needs in case of modification or renovation works.
• Technically coordinate contractors’ maintenance and installation work in compliance with contractual clauses and technical standards.
• Contribute to projects from the design phase until test and commissioning of new detector cooling systems.
• Write technical reports and notes.
• Ensuring that the technical documentation is kept up-to-date and compliant with the quality standards.
• Ensure the respect of safety rules for all interventions.
• Participate to the stand-by service.

Introduction

The CERN Theoretical Physics Department (CERN-TH) has launched a talent pool recruitment exercise for Limited Duration (LD) research staff positions. This 
pool aims at defining a list of pre-assessed and endorsed candidates that can be hired for future opportunities, determined by the needs of the organisation. We 
are looking for outstanding researchers in any of the areas of theoretical particle physics traditionally covered at CERN. 

The objectives of the Theoretical Physics Department are: 
• Develop new theoretical ideas aimed at understanding the fundamental constituents and forces of nature. 
• Develop their relevance for the experimental programme of CERN and to take full advantage of the stimulating environment of a large laboratory. 
• Contribute to the general scientific culture at CERN through active participation in the various training programmes and promotion of scientific events on site. 

Functions

Your main functions will include: 

• Making significant contributions to theoretical research related to elementary particle physics. 
• Participating in and initiating a large variety of activities within the Theoretical Physics Department and possibly in collaboration with the experimental physicists working at CERN.
• Taking part in CERN committees and study groups
• Helping maintain continued contacts with the outside scientific community. 

• Work on an advanced technical project in an experimental physics or engineering team;
• A project duration is up to 13 weeks;
• Project to be done in Ukraine, no visit or stay at CERN is required;
• A comprehensive and CERN approved report on your work and project will be expected at the end of the project and is required for payment of the grant;

The full list of available projects is here.