About the company
At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, we are pushing the frontiers of science and technology. Join our team that is building services for open data and reproducible computational data analyses.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the development of the REANA reproducible analysis platform allowing to run containerised declarative analysis workflows
- Participate in the development of the LHCb Ntupling service allowing researchers to request custom open data from the LHCb experiment
- Collaborate closely with LHC experimental physics teams working on open data and reproducible research
- Collaborate with external institutes and partners working on open data, open science and reproducible analysis infrastructures
Requirements
- Experience in full-stack software development and with frontend and backend software engineering technologies
- Experience with container technologies and application deployment, monitoring and security
- Some familiarity with basic principles of computational research data analyses would be a plus
- Frontend technologies: React
- Backend technologies: Python, Go
- Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French
- You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State
- Maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computer Science or equivalent
- 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
Conditions
- A monthly net stipend of either 5266 or 5793 Swiss Francs per month depending on your degree
- 30 days of paid leave per year plus 2 weeks annual closure
- Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health insurance scheme
- Membership of the CERN Pension Fund
- Family, child and infant monthly allowances
- A relocation package
- Possibility to extend your contract up to 36 months
- On-the-job and formal training including language classes
- 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-December-2026