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Job description
The Controls Electronics and Mechatronics (CEM) group is in charge of a large palette of devices, going from LHC Collimators and other Beam-Intercepting Devices (BIDs), facilities such as CERN's High Energy Accelerator Mixed field facility (CHARM) and robots such as the LHC Train Inspection Monorail (TIM).
You will join the Mechatronics, Robotics & Operation (MRO) section to take on the task to work on the Precision Motion control of Beam Intercepting Devices (BIDs).
In this role, you will:
Test and commission motion control systems;
Design firmware for microcontrollers, particularly the TEXAS instrument family, with knowledge of mechatronics systems including motor controls (steppers, DC brushed motors) and signal filtering;
Program electronics components firmware and microcrontrollers for motion controls and signal acquisition.
Your profile
Skills and/or Knowledge:
Required:
Experience with motion control;
Demonstrated experience programming in C with knowledge of good practises for architecture design;
Experience with hardware functional testing and software unit testing;
Experience in controlling complex mechatronic systems.
Advantageous:
Experience with other testing (PTS, thermal) desirable;
Knowledge of power electronics would be beneficial.
Language skills:
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. A limited number of positions are also available to candidates from Non-Member States.
You have a professional background in Mechatronics Engineering (or a related field) and have either:
a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
What we offer
A monthly stipend ranging between 6,194 and 6,808 Swiss Francs per month (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.
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