Job Description

Your responsibilities

Within the Beams department (BE), the Industrial Control Systems group (ICS) develops solutions and provides support for large and medium scale industrial control systems and promotes the use of industrial standard technologies. The group covers the domains of the experiments, the technical infrastructure and the accelerator chain.
Within this context the Tools and Middleware for Automation section (BE-ICS-TMA) provides critical utilities and services required for device and systems integration, verification and code generation.
We are looking for a talented and motivated engineer to join the team to help deliver high quality software and support to the CERN user community and beyond!

This position is dedicated to the UAB (UNICOS Application Builder) project, a tool used for automatic code generation of the control layer according to the UNICOS (UNified Industrial COntrol System) standard. UNICOS is a CERN-made framework used to develop industrial control applications, specifically focusing on the Supervision and Control layers of traditional control systems. UAB supports multiple PLC vendors (Schneider and Siemens), generates the object database for the supervision layer (WinCC OA), and integrates with the native applications of the PLC vendors.

As a Software Engineer in the UAB project, you will:

• Analyse the existing application and collaborate in the re-design and implementation of a new generation solution based on the most appropriate technologies;
• Gather requirements through discussions with expert users and develop the code to meet those requirements by extending and adapting the existing solution;
• Provide support to end-users addressing operational issues and feature requests.

Your profile

Skills

• Full lifecycle software engineering experience (analysis, design, development, documentation, testing, deployment, maintenance, support);
• Proficiency in application development using Java;
• Experience in Python programming language;
• Experience with CI/CD solutions to build, test and provision software.

Desirable skills:

• Familiarity with Industrial Control Systems;
• Experience in web front-end development using frameworks such as Angular, React or Vue;
• Knowledge of software quality assurance techniques and tools;
• Experience with model-based software engineering and code generation;
• 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 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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 09.01.2025 at 23:59h (midnight) CET.

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

Job reference: BE-ICS-TMA-2024-176-GRAP

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

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

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