Electronics Engineer

Electronics Engineer

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research

Geneva, Switzerland

Your responsibilities

You will be responsible for the acceptance and calibration of the electronic cards and will assist in the debugging and repair of cards that fail the reception tests. At a later stage, you will work in the installation and commissioning of the full instrumentation chains in the new HL-LHC caverns.

Key tasks for of this position include:

• Inspection of electronic card productions for defects.
• Performing electrical measurements on productions.
• Validating electronic cards in automated testbenches.
• Developing and following quality assurance documents.
• Preparing electronic racks for installation in the field.
• Validating the full instrumentation chain.

Depending on your skills and motivation, you'll also have the opportunity to work on further tasks such as:

• PCB analog/digital design.
• Proposing improvements and performing updates of FPGA software.
• Research and manage the procurement of electronic components and spare parts.
• Upgrading automatic testbenches.

Your profile

Skills:

• Experience with PCB design (Altium Designer), using electronic components in mixed analogue/digital/FPGA designs including sensors.
• Design and prototyping of analogue and digital electronic circuits including FPGA programming (VHDL).
• Experience with design of automated test equipment based on LABVIEW would be an advantage.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Electronics Engineering or Computer Sc. (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.

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