Software Engineer

The CERN engineer maintains and develops real-time software for beam instrumentation while coordinating adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices. The role designs, tests and commissions reliable systems and deploys machine-learning solutions for diagnostics, predictive maintenance and signal analysis.

• Maintain and improve beam-instrumentation software systems
• Design, develop, test and commission real-time software
• Gather requirements with operators and multidisciplinary experts
• Coordinate adoption of AI-assisted software-development practices
• Develop machine-learning solutions for diagnostics and predictive maintenance
• Refactor and safely recommission existing systems
• Share knowledge and mentor students or early-career colleagues

• Master degree or doctorate in computer science, applied physics or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Experience developing deterministic software in a real-time environment
• Experience applying artificial intelligence or machine learning to engineering, scientific or software-development challenges
• Basic knowledge of electronics-based digital acquisition hardware
• Spoken and written English or French with commitment to learn the other language
• Nationality of an eligible CERN Member State or Associate Member State

• Familiarity with large language models, AI-assisted software engineering or agent-based systems

• Real-time software engineering
• Embedded systems development
• Machine learning
• Software refactoring
• System testing and diagnostics
• Requirements analysis
• Technical mentoring

• Python
• C++
• Large language models