Job Description

Your responsibilities

Join CERN’s Electronics Production and Radiation Tolerance (EPR) section and take part in the end-to-end process of radiation effects testing — from experimental preparation to data reporting — supporting the development of robust electronics for the accelerator complex.

In this role, you will contribute to the design, execution, and optimization of radiation test campaigns at the CHARM and CC60 facilities, ensuring accurate reliable qualification of electronics for the CERN accelerator complex.

Specifically, you will:

• Be responsible for designing and operating test setups in harsh radiation environments.
• Develop and test electronics for measurement and device qualification
• Conduct and supervise irradiation campaigns with accurate dosimetry monitoring.
• Use instruments covering DC to RF and Python for data handling and reporting.
• Work with long cable runs, high voltage, high current, high frequency, and fast digital electronics.
• Support other users through all test phases, from setup to data analysis in CERN facilities

Your profile

Skills:

• Experience with Electronic circuit design (analog and digital);
• Knowledge of High-speed digital and RF signal handling;
• Experience with high voltage and high current systems;
• Knowledge of radiation effects and radiation testing of electronics;
• Knowledge of dosimetry and radiation monitoring techniques;
• Test setup development in complex environments;
• Use of electronic measurement instruments (DC to RF);
• Experience with Technical reporting and documentation;
• Experience with Python programming for data analysis and automation would be an advantage;
• 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.
• You have a professional background in Electronic 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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 16.07.2025, at 23:59 CEST.

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-September-2025

Job reference: BE-CEM-EPR-2025-77-GRAP

Field of work: Electrical or Electronics Engineering

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6287 and 6911 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.

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