Java Software Engineer (BE-CSS-CPA-2024-114-GRAP)

Your responsibilities

Are you a passionate Software Engineer? Do you want to help making the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the other CERN accelerators even more efficient? Then you should join our team to work on UCAP, a platform that acquires, analyses and transforms massive streams of online controls data. UCAP enables physicists, equipment specialists, and the 24/7 operations teams to optimize and automate controls procedures, using both traditional and AI-driven methods. Watch the video in this blog post to see our LHC operations colleagues explain some of these procedures.

Take Part!

You will join:

• The Beams department (BE), responsible for the beam generation, acceleration, diagnostics, controls and performance optimization for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its injector accelerators.

• The Controls Software and Services (CSS) group, which provides solutions for the control and monitoring of all the CERN particle accelerators, their transfer lines, associated experimental areas and various supporting technical infrastructure services.

• The Communication, Processing and Archival (CPA) section, which delivers critical software services and frameworks related to communication, data processing, and archival of large quantities of accelerator device data.

You will be part of a passionate team of experienced software engineers, and take an important role in the development, evolution and operation of the Unified Controls Acquisition and Processing Framework (UCAP) platform. 

By joining the team, you will be involved in all aspects of the software life cycle, including user requirements gathering, design, development, testing, maintainance and operations, following our Agile development process. Furthermore, you will support the gradual migration of our systems to a new technological era using Kubernetes and related DevOps tools.

In particular, you will:

• Become part of an agile and quality-oriented team of skilled software engineers providing solutions essential for the CERN Controls System;
• Shape and contribute to the development and evolution of our software systems and frameworks for communication and data processing;
• Participate in the complete software development lifecycle (requirements, design, development, testing), following a modern agile approach; 
• Interact with our stakeholders, operators, physicists, and equipment specialists to understand their needs and help translate these into appropriate software solutions; 
• Collaborate and share knowledge and solutions with highly skilled software engineers both inside the CSS group and across the Accelerators & Technology Sector.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

If you are excited about this role but your past experience does not align perfectly with our tech-stack, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

• Experience working with the following Tech-stack: 
  • Java Core (with multithreading);
  • Spring Framework and Spring Boot ecosystem;
  • gRPC & REST-based APIs;
  • Python and its ecosystem;
  • DevOps and CI/CD with Gitlab, Ansible, Gradle and deployment on Kubernetes (K8s).
• 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 Java Software 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.

Job closing date: 01.08.2024 at 23:59h (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: BE-CSS-CPA-2024-114-GRAP

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

Target start date: 01-September-2024

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.

We are on a Quest. A Journey into discovery like no other. Bring your expertise to our unique work and develop your knowledge and skills at pace. Join world-class subject matter experts on unique projects, in a Quest for greater knowledge and deeper understanding.

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