Electronics Technician (EP-ESE-FE-2024-107-GRAE)

Your responsibilities

In this role, you will join the Front-End section of the Electronic Systems for Experiments group in the Experimental Physics department (EP-ESE-FE) to support the electronics developments for the physics experiments at CERN.

You will join the teams designing, producing, testing and installing the numerous electronics components to be installed in the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. This work will take place in the EP-ESE-FE laboratories and various experimental sites around CERN.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Preparation and commissioning of test systems (hardware/firmware/software);
• Testing and installation of data-transmission components (PCBs, flex-cables, data-cables);
• Verification of detector power-distribution infrastructure; Installation and testing of fibre-optics infrastructure.

More information here: https://ep-ese.web.cern.ch/

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Experience of testing analog and digital electronic circuits using laboratory equipment;
• Experience of assembling system components (soldering, cable/connector assemblies);
• Knowledge of Printed Circuit Board design, production and assembly;
• Basic mechanical workshop 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.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Electronic engineering (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is a general secondary education diploma.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants with a Bachelor, Master or PhD degree are not eligible.

Job closing date: 15.07.2024 at 12:00 AM (midnight) CET.

Job reference: EP-ESE-FE-2024-107-GRAE

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

Target start date: 01-August-2024

This position requires:

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

What we offer

• A monthly stipend of 4569 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.