Optical Engineer (EN-MME-EDM-2025-67-GRAE)

Optical Engineer (EN-MME-EDM-2025-67-GRAE)

• Full-time

Your responsibilities

Are you intrigued by optical fiber based sensors in extreme conditions? Are you skilled in both measurements techniques and optics? This is an opportunity for you: you will be part of a multidisciplinary team testing and qualifying the large variety of materials and components used at CERN, in the framework of a wide range of research and development projects. CERN, take part!

You will join the Engineering Department (EN), which pushes back the limits of technology so that physicists can carry out their research. Within the Mechanical & Material Engineering Group (MME) of the EN department, you will join the Mechanical Measurement Lab that undertakes physical and mechanical measurements for a wide range of components and devices for present and future high-energy physics projects.

As an Optical Engineer, you will carry out the design, development and validation of optical measurement systems to be used in a large variety of extreme environments.

Your profile

Skills:

• Experience in measurements based on optical fibers;
• Demonstrated problem solving skills;
• Good organizational skills;
• Building relationships: showing courtesy and consideration in dealings with others;
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering (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.

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

This position involves:

• Work in Radiation Areas.
• Interventions in underground installations.
• A valid driving licence.

Job reference: EN-MME-EDM-2025-67-GRAE

Field of work: Mechanical Engineering

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5196 and 5716 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.

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.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.