Software Developer, Beam Optics

Join the Linear and Non-Linear Optics (LNO) Section within CERN’s Accelerator and Beam Physics (ABP) Group and help shape the future of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). As part of the Optics Measurement and Correction (OMC) team, you will develop advanced software and analysis tools that enable precise beam-optics measurements and corrections, as well as improve commissioning procedures. Your work will play a key role in ensuring the safe, reliable, and high-performance operation of the HL-LHC, contributing directly to the successful delivery of its novel physics programme.

• Maintain and extend the core OMC framework and toolset used during LHC commissioning and operation.
• Explore software solutions to improve the efficiency and capability of optics measurement and corrections in the LHC.
• Update accelerator model creation and correction algorithms to utilise new simulation tools.
• Explore the viability of automation for key measurement and analysis workflows, implementing solutions where possible.
• Develop new GUIs and analysis tools to be used in the CERN Control Centre during optics commissioning.
• Participate in, and contribute to the analysis of, optics measurements in the CERN accelerators.

• You are a national of aCERN Member State or Associate Member State. Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot and Croatian nationals, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
• By the Final date to receive applications, you have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation. You are not eligible with only a bachelor’s degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.