Job Description
Your responsibilities
As a Junior Electronics Engineer, you will join the Accelerator Systems Department (SY). Within this department, the Accelerator Beam Transfer (ABT) group is in charge of the design, development, construction, installation, exploitation and maintenance of injection and extraction related equipment and beam-transfer systems. Those systems include fast pulsed kicker magnets, high voltage pulse generators, triggering systems, as well as associated control systems and software.
The Beam Transfer Electronics (BTE) team is responsible for the design, development, production, exploitation, quality assurance, performance follow-up and maintenance of controls electronics for all equipment under the responsibility of the ABT group and associated R&D activities.
As a member of this team, you will:
Design, produce and test a digital VME based card (hardware and gateware). This card will be based on an AMD FPGA with fiber optics transmitters. It is part of a safety critical system for the beam transfer in two of our accelerators; Simulate full HDL and develop hardware test/validation testbenches;Perform other simulations of BETS cards gateware or modules.Your profile
Skills and/or knowledge
Knowledge of EDA boards design tools (schematics and PCB), preferably Altium or KiCad designer;Knowledge in digital electronics design; Knowledge in VHDL design for synthesis, in particular with AMD Vivad;Knowledge in HDL simulation and verification in VHDL, SystemVerilog, or otherKnowledge of Linux command line tools, e.g. git, make, docker, etc.Advantageous:
Routing skills would be an asset; A first experience with CI/CD would be an asset; Knowledge of Python and/or C/C++ would be an asset.Language:
Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.Eligibility criteria:
You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.You have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Electronics Engineering (or a related field) by the application deadline.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.Additional Information
Job closing date: 19.01.2024 at 23:59h (midnight) CET.
Job reference: SY-ABT-BTE-2023-41-GRAE
Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
Target start date: 01-April-2024
This position requires:
Work in Radiation Areas.Interventions in underground installations.A valid driving licence.What we offer
A monthly stipend ranging between 5119 and 5631 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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