Software Engineer (SY-EPC-CCS-2025-181-GRAP)

Job Description

In this role, you will engage in the development, enhancement and maintenance of C++ based software solutions running on a System on Chip platform. You will also interact with the stakeholders to capture and implement their requirements.

Your responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain C++ software that controls and monitors power converters.
• Develop and integrate software for Linux and bare-metal cores on the AMD Zynq UltraScale+ SoC platform.
• Participate in software validation using hardware-in-the-loop digital twins, as well as in the commissioning of real power converters ranging from a few kilowatts to tens of megawatts.
• Contribute to our CI/CD and automated testing framework.
• Supervise students.

More information here: https://epc-ccs.web.cern.ch/

Your profile

• Proficiency in C++, ideally the latest standard C++20.
• Experience with Linux OS * Knowledgeable in git, gitlab and CI/CD.
• Ease communicating with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Basic understanding of System on Chips (SoC) and control theory is advantageous but not mandatory.

Skills:

• Modern C++
• Linux
• Git, gitlab, CI/CD
• Good communication skills
• 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 Software or electronics 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: 07.11.2025 at 23:59 CET.

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-March-2026

This position involves:

• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job reference: SY-EPC-CCS-2025-181-GRAP

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

Benchmark job: 200020 - Computing Engineer

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.

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