Job Description

Your responsibilities

The Controls Electronics and Mechatronics (CEM) group is in charge of a large palette of devices, going from LHC Collimators and other Beam-Intercepting Devices (BIDs), facilities such as CERN’s High Energy Accelerator Mixed field facility (CHARM) and robots such as the LHC Train Inspection Monorail (TIM).
You will join the Mechatronics, Robotics & Operation (MRO) section to take on the task to work on the Precision Motion control of Beam Intercepting Devices (BIDs).

In this role, you will:

• Test and commission motion control systems;
• Design firmware for microcontrollers, particularly the TEXAS instrument family, with knowledge of mechatronics systems including motor controls (steppers, DC brushed motors) and signal filtering;
• Program electronics components firmware and microcrontrollers for motion controls and signal acquisition.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

Required:

• Experience with motion control;
• Demonstrated experience programming in C with knowledge of good practises for architecture design;
• Experience with hardware functional testing and software unit testing;
• Experience in controlling complex mechatronic systems.

Advantageous:

• Experience with other testing (PTS, thermal) desirable;
• Knowledge of power electronics would be beneficial.

Language skills:

• 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 Mechatronics 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: 30.06.2024 at 23:59h (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: BE-CEM-MRO-2024-79-GRAP

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

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.

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