Computing Engineer - Applied Physics

Big Science Sweden; Genf; On-site; CHF 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Science Sweden is seeking an Engineer specializing in software development to enhance software tools for CERN's EP irradiation facilities. You will play a crucial role in maintaining and optimizing these tools while exploring synergies and data model harmonization.

Eligible candidates should hold a master's degree with 2 to 6 years of experience or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of experience. This position focuses on improving software infrastructure and investigating innovations in ML/AI.

Qualifications

• 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation for Master's degree holders.
• Maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation for PhD holders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the maintenance and development of software tools.
• Explore opportunities for harmonising and consolidating individual tools.
• Investigate new opportunities in ML/AI for processing text, data, and language.

Education

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

As an Engineer with a specialisation in software development you will contribute to the maintenance, development, optimisation and upgrade of software tools used for the coordination of users, experiments and activities of the EP irradiation facilities (IRRAD/GIF++) at CERN. You will also contribute to explore opportunities to harmonise and consolidate the individual tools aiming to increase synergies, exploitation of communalities in the data model(s) and the reuse of programming code and software infrastructure, as well as investigate the new opportunities offered by ML/AL, in the field of the text, data and language (NLP) processing, for optimising them.

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• By the application deadline, you have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation. You are not eligible with only a bachelor’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.