Job Description

Your responsibilities

In this position, you will have the opportunity to join a joint collaborative team from the Technologies department and the Beam department. This will enable you work together with the Operation Crews of the accelerators as well as Equipment Experts.

AccTesting is the software framework used at CERN to perform the commissioning of the LHC superconducting magnets, electrical circuits and their protection equipments. It implements the automation, scheduling and systematization of the commissioning procedures. As the experiences with it were positive, the use of AccTesting will be expanded other accelerator systems and to the entire accelerator injection chain, spreading to all accelerators at CERN.

Your tasks will be:

• Extend the AccTesting framework to support all accelerator systems for automated test execution and analysis;
• Renovate the way the services are deployed to scale it to the entire accelerator complex;
• Define requirements with operators and equipment experts.

Your profile

Skills

• Very good knowledge of Java (11+) and its ecosystem;
  • Experience with Spring Framework (e.g. IoC, Web) and Spring Boot;
  • Experience with maintenance and evolution of existing software products, refactoring and testing;
  • Experience using CI/CD for automated testing, validation and deployments (e.g. Gitlab);
  • Experience with containerized software (e.g. Docker);
• Basic knowledge, or willingness to acquire, of Java Swing for occasional improvement of operational GUIs;
• Curious and quality-oriented mindset;
• Experience with gRPC is a strong 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 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: 09.12.2024 at 23:59h (midnight) CET.

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

Job reference: BE-OP-LHC-2024-174-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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