22 hours ago
Geneva, SwitzerlandEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Design and develop the platform and support activities for CERN’s Next Generation Triggers project.
- Design and develop CERN’s central machine-learning platform for experiments, campus services, and user communities.
- Identify, prototype, and benchmark AI use cases across heterogeneous computing infrastructures.
- Build and maintain an open-source AI/MLOps ecosystem covering model and agent lifecycle management, evaluation, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with open-source communities, industry partners, and CERN teams.
- Operate machine-learning services and support GPU- or accelerator-based training and inference workloads.
Requirements
- Maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in computing engineering or a related field.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree as the highest educational qualification; applicants without a university degree or with a PhD are not eligible.
- Experience with machine-learning systems and platforms, including practical operation of ML services.
- Strong knowledge of MLOps and cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes, containers, observability, and model lifecycle management.
- Experience with GPU or accelerator-based workloads and performance optimization for training and inference.
- Familiarity with open-source ecosystems and interest in evaluating or contributing to community projects.
- Comfort with Linux-based systems and knowledge of system configuration tools.
- Ability to identify and select relevant emerging ICT technologies and apply software life-cycle tools and procedures.
- Spoken and written English and commitment to learn French.
- Must be a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State and must not previously have held a CERN fellow or graduate contract.
Benefits
- 24-month contract with a possible extension up to 36 months.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- 40-hour work week, with stand-by duty and possible work during nights, Sundays, and official holidays when required.
- 30 days of paid leave per year plus two weeks of annual closure.
- CERN comprehensive health insurance for the employee, spouse, and children, plus membership in the CERN Pension Fund.
- Family, child, and infant monthly allowances depending on individual circumstances.
- Relocation package including an installation grant and travel expenses depending on individual circumstances.
- On-the-job and formal training, including language classes.
- Target start date of 1 December 2026; application deadline is 30 October 2026 at 23:59 CET.
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About CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, an intergovernmental, nonprofit laboratory headquartered in Meyrin, Switzerland (founded 1954). It designs, builds, and operates particle accelerators and detectors—most notably the Large Hadron Collider—and provides large-scale computing and data services for a worldwide physics community. Funded by its European Member States, CERN hosts thousands of visiting researchers and engineers and develops technologies ranging from control systems to identity and access management used across its experiments.