Technician in microelectronics (EP-ESE-ME-2024-90-GRAE)

Your responsibilities

The Medipix3 Collaboration is made up of 22 academic and research institutes whose aim is the development of new pixel detector readout ASICs for applications relating to particle imaging and detection.

The Collaboration has developed 2 world-leading pixel detector readout chips (ASICs), Medipix3 and Timepix3, which are now widely used. The Medipix team, which is hosted within the Microelectronics Section of the ESE group at CERN, leads the ASIC development and provides logistical and technical support to Collaboration members and our commercial licensees.

After a period of training you will be assigned to work in the technical support team for the Collaboration within the PH-ESE-ME section and will perform the following functions :

• Technical and logistical support to collaboration partners across the world and at CERN
• Organisation of the production and assembly of electronic test cards for ASICs
• Probing of ASIC wafers and selection of known good die
• Maintenance of a database of components
• Procurement of electronics components
• Printed circuit board design

More information here: https://medipix.web.cern.ch

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Up to 2 years of experience in the field of electronics.
• Basic knowledge of design, test and production of electronics boards and systems.
• Basic knowledge of use of CAD tools for schematic and layout of printed circuit boards.
• 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 Electronics (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: 20.07.2024 at 12:00 AM (midnight) CET.

Job reference: EP-ESE-ME-2024-90-GRAE

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 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.

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