Job Description

Your responsibilities

Join our multi-disciplinary “Configuration, Settings & Automation” team and work at the heart of CERN, re-engineering the critical software used to develop and evolve industrial controls applications CERN-wide.

This position is dedicated to extending the data models and APIs of the Controls Configuration Service (CCS) of the Accelerator Control System.

In this position, you will:

• work closely with experienced software engineers, physicists, and equipment specialists to evolve the CCS, while gaining valuable experience working with a modern technology stack, applying agile development practices, in a unique and exciting environment.

This role includes team supervision responsibilities.

Your profile

Skills

Required:

• Experience in Java application development using Spring;
• Experience applying software quality assurance techniques and practices (unit/integration testing, quality gates, code reviews, etc.).

Desired:

• Experience in delivering software products, from the analysis stage to operations;
• Experience working with Spring Boot, JPA;
• Experience in designing and evolving client-oriented APIs, ideally based on ReST;
• Experience using CI/CD solutions to build, test and provision software to operations;
• A general interest in building and evolving robust, secure software components and tools;
• 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: 09.02.2025 at 12:00 AM (midnight) CET.

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

Target start date: 01-April-2025

Job reference: BE-CSS-CSA-2024-216-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

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.

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