Company Description
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.
CERN’s computing fellowships are designed for recent graduates offering career development in a unique, international environment.
Job Description
Are you talented in designing intuitive web interfaces? Do you feel confident in writing efficient, well-documented, and modular JavaScript code? Do you keep yourself up to date with new technologies in your field? Then join CERN’s Electrical Power Converters Group! We are seeking a frontend developer to work on web applications used by power converter experts, to work with a large distributed control system consisting of more than five thousand power converter controllers. These are used to precisely control the current delivered to the magnets in CERN’s accelerator complex in order to guide and focus particle beams.
You will join the Converter Controls Software Section and enjoy creating and extending the user interfaces of the group’s expert tools in close collaboration with users and other team members.
As part of an agile team, you will collaborate closely with four developers who are working on the full stack of the group’s expert tools.
You will contribute to the design, development, deployment, maintenance, and support of existing and new web applications and services.
You will become the main responsible for a selected subset of existing web applications such as the signal visualisation and inspection tool PowerSpy. This role mainly comes with frontend related tasks but it will also require you to become familiar with and work on the Python backends.
On the frontend, we use mostly:
On the backend, we use:
Section wide, we use:
Additionally, you will be part of a support team that is responsible for tasks such as helping power converter experts to insert definition and configuration data into our system. Approximately every three months, you will be on stand-by duty for one week including nights, weekends and public holidays.
Qualifications
Eligibility criteria
Essential skills and experience
Desired skills and experience
Please note that CERN Staff members are not eligible to apply for a Fellowship.
Additional Information
CERN would very much like to benefit from your expertise, commitment and passion.
In return, CERN will provide you with:
Your Life @CERN
Get a glimpse of what it’s like to work at CERN: https://careers.cern/benefits and https://careers.cern/our-people
How to Apply:
You will need the following documents to complete your application:
We recommend to add two recent letters of recommendation, giving an overview of your academic and/or professional achievements. You can upload these letters at the time of application if you have them to hand. You will also be provided with a link as soon as you have submitted your application to forward to your referees to upload their letters confidentially.
All applications should reach us no later than 31 March 2022 at noon.