Job Description

The Engineering Department's Information Management group is seeking a highly motivated full stack software engineer with strong technical skills and a passion for learning.

You will join an international team within the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) section, delivering engineering information management solutions for the entire accelerator complex and its detectors.

This ecosystem manages millions of engineering documents, product definitions, and CAD (Computer-Aided Design) models.

Currently, the group is leading a major modernisation effort focused on the Engineering Data Management System (EDMS), leveraging modern technologies to streamline and evolve the engineering landscape, improve data accessibility and workflows, and support the scale and complexity of future engineering projects.

Your responsibilities:

• Implement backend applications using Java.
• Build web applications using modern technologies (React, TypeScript).
• Analyse existing software packages, streamline them, and reimplement them following a new architecture.
• Take part in the complete modernisation of one of the group's flagship applications - Engineering Data Management System (EDMS).
• Define and implement AI-oriented software development pipelines (including data workflows, model integration, and deployment practices).
• Perform code reviews, testing, delivery, and support of the software.

Your profile:

• Experience and/or strong knowledge in developing and maintaining large software projects using Java.
• Experience and/or strong knowledge in full-stack development, including front-end applications built with React or Angular or TypeScript.
• Experience and/or strong knowledge with relational databases such as Oracle, PostgreSQL, or SQL Server as part of large-scale systems.
• Experience and/or strong knowledge in Agile and DevOps practices in a collaborative team environment.
• Experience or knowledge in setting up AI-augmented software development practices and pipelines is a plus.

Skills:

• Backend development using Java.
• Frontend development using React or Angular or TypeScript.
• Experience with SQL databases (i.e. Oracle, SQL Server).
• Git.
• CI/CD tools.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

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 Information Technology (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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 25.05.2026 at 23:59 CEST.

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job flexibility: Hybrid

Target start date: 01-July-2026

Job reference: EN-IM-PLM-2026-128-GRAE

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

Benchmark job: 200020 - Computing Engineer

Global Benefits

• A monthly stipend between 5266-5793 Swiss Francs per month (tax free) depending on your degree.
• 30 days of paid leave per year plus 2 weeks annual closure.
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health insurance scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Family, child and infant monthly allowances depending on your individual circumstances.
• A relocation package (installation grant and travel expenses) depending on your individual circumstances.
• Possibility to extend your contract up to 36 months.
• On-the-job and formal training including language classes.

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