CERN - Junior software engineer

Deadline: January 13, 2025

Graduates

International Organizations

Location(s)

Switzerland

Geneva

Overview

Are you a recently-graduated scientist interested in contributing to scientific software, or a software engineer interested in the challenges offered by computing for High Energy Physics? Do you want to contribute to the software R&D at the heart of LHC data processing?

Details

Join the EP-SFT group at CERN, responsible for developing and maintaining core software packages used by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator. You will become a core C++ software developer in the team developing the CernVM-FileSystem (CVMFS, https://cernvm.web.cern.ch/fs).

CVMFS is a global, read-only filesystem that specializes in delivering software and helps to enable distributed scientific computing across cloud- and supercomputing sites at a global scale.

In particular, you will:

Improve the performance and usability of the CVMFS client and publisher
Work with cloud- and supercomputing facilities to make CVMFS more accessible
Contribute to the baseline support and maintenance tasks of the project.

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Eligibility

Candidates should be from:

Austria Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary India Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Netherlands Norway Pakistan Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom

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Description of Ideal Candidate

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Skills

Experience with software version control (e.g. git) and build tooling
Knowledge of the C++ language: how to write, compile and run programs; developing code for a package;
Knowledge of UNIX, in particular of the file API and filesystem concepts

Optional but a plus:

Experience with container technologies (e.g. kubernetes, docker)
Knowledge of the Go language
Experience with writing networking code in C++
Experience with HEP experiments code, their software lifecycle and build tools

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 STEM (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.

Dates

Deadline: January 13, 2025

Cost/funding for participants

Fully Funded

What we offer

A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 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.

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