Computing Engineer (EN-ACE-2025-130-GRAP)

Your responsibilities

Our Engineering Department (EN) is looking for a Computing Engineer to join our Accelerators, Coordination, and Engineering Group (ACE). The ACE Group is in charge of the coordination of the activities for the interventions and changes to the LHC and its injectors.

As part of the EN-ACE group, you will:

• Maintain and develop EN-ACE applications (database, back-end, front-end) to add new features for users. Example: https://panoramas-outreach.cern.ch/.
• Progressively supervise junior developers on a technical level.
• Ensure the coordination, the scheduling and the deviation control of several software packages.
• Be encouraged to use your knowledge and experience to suggest new ideas and novel features (e.g. virtual reality, AI).
• Ensure the integration of EN-ACE applications with other CERN tools.
• Participate in testing and reviewing code, prepare technical and end-user documentation.
• Visit the CERN accelerators (PS-Complex, SPS-Complex, LHC) for in-site works, e.g. to capture panoramas (immersive pictures).
• Provide users support when required.

Your profile

Skills

• Knowledge and experience of Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and relational databases (i.e. Oracle).
• Knowledge and experience with the React and the Spring Boot would be an advantage.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Computing/Computer Science (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.

Job closing date: 17.09.2025 at 23:59 CEST.

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-November-2025

This position involves:

• Work in Radiation Areas.
• Interventions in underground installations.

Job reference: EN-ACE-2025-130-GRAP

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6287 and 6911 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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