Job Description

Your responsibilities

Are you a passionate and creative engineer looking to kickstart your career? Join our power converter control electronics team! Work with programmable (FPGA) and system-on-chip (SoC) technologies on existing and next-generation control systems, and make a direct impact on our mission to deliver beams to our users.

• Explore Electronics: Learn about, and contribute to, the application of programmable logic in converter controls.
• Collaborate: Team up with a diverse group of talented individuals to improve existing solutions, and design new ones.
• Learn Team and Deployment Tools: Gain hands-on experience with version control and continuous integration.
• Work on Optimisation: Help troubleshoot and improve system performance.
• Get Experience in Toolchains: Use a variety of platforms and languages, broadening your skills.
• Work on Test and Validation Skills: Participate in validation processes, proving our systems will be reliable and effective.

Your profile

Skills

• Understanding of digital logic design, simulation, and hardware description languages (like GHDL, VHDL, Vivado, Cocotb, VUNIT, …).
• Familiarity with code versioning systems (such as Git, …).
• An enthusiasm for learning new technologies and a collaborative spirit in problem solving.
• CERN provides support and training to help you succeed with the various languages and tools mentioned, particularly in areas where you may have less experience.
• Fluent in English

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 Electronics engineering (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: 21st November 2024 at 23:59AM (midnight) CET.

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

Target start date: 01-March-2025

Job reference: SY-EPC-CCE-2024-186-GRAE

Field of work: Electrical or Electronics Engineering

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.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN’s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.