Your responsibilities
CERN’s Radiation Protection (RP) group invites you to join a workplace like no other.
CERN designs, develops, and operates particle accelerators and experiments for scientific research to understand the fundamental laws of the universe. These activities may generate stray radiation due to the interaction between beams and matter. The radiation detectors installed close to the various beam lines and targets allow CERN to accurately monitor radiation levels. Within the Radiation Protection (RP) Group at CERN, the Instrumentation & Logistics (IL) Section is responsible for the design and the development of this specialised equipment, as well as its installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance.
Radiation monitoring is essential to enable CERN to operate its accelerator complex and related experiments while fulfilling its legal obligations to protect the public, people working on CERN site and the environment. In this stringent context, the RP-IL Section has developed a new generation of radiation monitoring system called CROME (CERN Radiation Monitoring Electronics https://crome.web.cern.ch) with very challenging performances and reliability requirements.
Within the framework of this development activity, the RP-IL Section has designed two complementary electronics:
1. A new generation of ASIC front-end with specific requirements linked to radiation protection detectors. This circuit is a ten-decade silicon CMOS current to frequency converter capable of measuring a current over a wide range from 2fA to 20 µA;
2. A modular and reconfigurable electronics based on a heterogeneous multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) for both real-time control and complex computation.
And this is your call for action!
Join our dynamic team of engineers and technicians to play an essential role in the further development of CROME, which will be the cornerstone of future RP monitoring systems across the CERN site. As such, you will be able to create and adapt the system for brand new applications.
After a period of training and familiarization, you will have the unique opportunity to characterize these newly designed systems, adapt their system-on-chip architecture, consolidate CROME firmware development ecosystem, and perform the typical functional and performance tests required for high-performance, safety-critical devices.
CROME, and your work, will be an indispensable part of CERN infrastructure for decades to come.
Find out more about the RP-IL team on https://hse.cern/content/join-rp-il-team.
Your profile
Skills and/or knowledge
If you are a keen electrical or electronics engineer with experience across physical and software domains, and can demonstrate experience in the following areas:
VHDL Coding, simulation and synthesisHDL Design including static timing analysis and logic equivalence checkingC/C++ CodingLinux Embedded OSGitLab CI/CDFluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantagethis may be the role for you!
Knowledge of MATLAB and/or verification frameworks for digital assets 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 (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.