Power Electronics Engineer (SY-EPC-LPC-2025-74-GRAE)

Your responsibilities

As a Power Electronics Engineer, you'll be joining the Low Power Converters (LPC) Section of the Electrical Power Converter (EPC) Group, within the Accelerator Systems (SY) Department. You will integrate the Electrical Power Converter (EPC) Group in charge of the design of converters for the High Luminosity LHC Project (HL-LHC). In this position you will focus on the management of the production, reception and test of the series units (mainly power modules and power racks), in cooperation with another engineer. Part of the work will also be on the implementation and validation of the digital controls code for the 14 kA and 18 kA power converters, which are necessary for the final converter test at CERN and the future operation in HL-LHC. Your tasks: Participate in and manage internal resources for the final assembly and testing. Follow the development project of the power electronics Contribute to developing control libraries using C++ based programming on a DSP with integrated PWMs. Contribute to the testing and validating of the digital control of the power converters.

Your profile

Skills

• Knowledge of power electronics and digital control.
• Experience with DSP and FPGA programming.
• Experience with C and C++ programming.
• Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the basics of the other language.

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 Electrical/Electronics/Energy 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.

Job closing date: 19.05.2025 at 23:59 CEST.

Contract duration: 16 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-September-2025

Job reference: SY-EPC-LPC-2025-74-GRAE

Field of work: Electrical or Electronics Engineering

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5196 and 5716 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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