Job Description
Your responsibilities:
The Electronic Systems for Experiments (ESE) group of the Experimental Physics (EP) department designs and maintains electronic systems and components for the experiments at CERN. It provides a number of services for the electronics community. One of these services is the electronics pool service which evaluates, procures, rents, maintains and supports a wide range of electronics equipment, ranging from instrumentation to modular electronics and infrastructure devices such as crates and power supplies, for short to medium term use in physics experiments.
As an electronics technician, you will take part in ensuring the availability of this large range of equipment in operation in the High Energy Physics experiments and in the labs at CERN. You will test and qualify equipment, maintain test benches and procedures to test a large range of instruments. Occasionally, you will provide technical support to technician's colleagues in the evaluation of equipment as well as for the update of existing test benches.
Your main activities will consist of:
- Testing electronics equipment and instrumentation, identifying faults and carrying out firmware and hardware fixes.
- Creating and correcting test procedure documentation when required.
- Maintaining hardware and software of existing test benches in collaboration with the responsible technicians.
- Participating in the daily operations of the electronics pool service.
Your profile:
Skills:
- Knowledge and application of instrumentation and measurement techniques.
- Operation and maintenance of data-acquisition, monitoring and control systems.
- Application of modular low and high-voltage power supplies.
- 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.
- By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Electronics (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is a general secondary education diploma.
- You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
- Applicants with a Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree are not eligible.
Additional Information
Job closing date: 30.10.2025 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-February-2026
Job reference: EP-ESE-BE-2025-197-GRAE
Field of work: Electrical or Electronics Engineering
What we offer
- A monthly stipend of 4624 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.
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