JOB DESCRIPTION

CERN Position: IT Technician (BE-CEM-EPR-2025-147-GRAE)

Location: Geneva, ch

Job Description:

Your responsibilities

Are you a Technician qualified in the field of Software Engineering or IT and eager to apply your skills to real-world challenges? Are you passionate about science and technology?

We’re looking for early career professionals to join the Electronics Production & Radiation Tolerant Section (EPR) within the Controls Electronics and Mechatronics (CEM) under the Beams Department (BE), and contribute to the world’s greatest scientific institution.

In this role, your main tasks will be related to EPR’s digital systems integration and validation. You’ll spend around 70% of your time working in electronics-related tasks and 30% in radiation effects-related tasks, including:

• Integrating Access Database “Chouette” into Job Management Systems (JMS) and validating functionalities;
• Tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);
• Maintenance of Power BI Dashboards;
• Overseeing the section’s websites;
• Ensuring effective ticketing system integration with section’s services.

Your profile

Skills

Required:

• PowerBI;
• Python;
• SQL and/or Data Management.

Desired:

• Experience with invoicing;
• Experience with procurement workflow;
• Experience with Web Content Management;
• Experience writing technical documentation;

Language:

• Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the basics of the other language.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computing (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is a general secondary education diploma.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants with a Bachelor”s, Master”s or PhD degree are not eligible.

Additional Information:

Job closing date: 01.10.2025 at 23:59 CEST.

Contract duration: 12 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-October-2025

Job reference: BE-CEM-EPR-2025-147-GRAE

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

What we offer

• A monthly stipend of 4624 Swiss Francs (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.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world”s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN”s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.

Level of Education: Master Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Master Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Organization: European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)