Job Description

Your responsibilities

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is CERN's flagship proposal for the next generation of energy-frontier particle accelerators.

Three times the size of the LHC, the FCC will push the boundaries of physics, engineering, and systems design, requiring levels of reliability and maintainability never before achieved in the accelerator field.

As a Reliability Engineer, you will work at the intersection of operations research, systems engineering, and reliability analysis, contributing directly to how future accelerators are designed, operated, and maintained.

In this role, you will:

• Map and analyse intervention and maintenance response processes across CERN's current accelerator complex.
• Identify where time is lost and propose ways for future interventions to be faster, smarter, and safer.
• Investigate and adapt best-practice methodologies from high-dependability industries, evaluating their applicability to the unique FCC environment.
• Explore and propose emerging practices such as advanced diagnostics, automated maintenance scheduling, design for maintainability, and robotic maintenance.

This position is open to candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, including engineering, industrial systems, and operations management.

More information here.

Your profile

Skills:

• Experience in reliability engineering.
• Ability to analyse, manipulate, and visualise data.
• Experience in optimising maintenance processes during both the design and operation of highly dependable systems.
• Knowledge and application of reliability and quality assurance techniques.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to conduct surveys and interviews in a cross-disciplinary, international technical context.
• Flexibility to adapt to shifting requirements in a rapidly changing research environment.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Mechanical, Electrical or Electronic Engineering (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: 07.10.2025 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-January-2026

Job reference: TE-MPE-CB-2025-145-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.

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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