Job Description

Your responsibilities

The BE-ICS group develops solutions and provides support for large and medium scale industrial control systems, promoting their use. Support covers the domains of CERN experiments, technical infrastructure and the accelerators. BE-ICS runs the CERN-wide OPC support service, which provides systems integration for a varied range of electronic devices, both commercial off-the-shelf and custom-made devices, for integration in large scale control systems using the OPC-UA industrial standard (IEC62541).

You will contribute to the goal of providing reliable and robust OPC-UA integration components to CERN’s user community. Primarily you will use, extend and support a python-based OPC-UA component validation tool for this.

As a Junior Systems Integration Engineer, you will:

• Create test scripts using this tool, and support other users in doing so.
• Extend the tool as required, whilst retaining the core design goal of providing as simple as possible user interface through carefully crafting the user facing API and ensuring clear user-orientated report pass/fail metrics with explanations;
• Support end-users of OPC-UA integration components, analysing and troubleshooting production issues;
• Gather, implement and validate new feature requests.
• Collaborate with the diverse set of users across CERN as well as a variety of commercial partners.

Your profile

Skills

Required:

• General software development (user requirements, analysis, version control, releasing etc.)
• Continuous Integration and Deployment experience (build and test automation)
• Python
• Unit/Integration testing

Desired:

• C++
• OPC-UA

Language requirements:

• 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.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Systems Integration Engineer (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 28.01.2025 at 23:59h (midnight) CET.

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

Target start date: 01-March-2025

Job reference: BE-ICS-TMA-2024-216-GRAE

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 Swiss Francs (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.

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