Job Description

Your responsibilities

The successful candidate will join the software development for experiments (SFT) group, which develops and provides support for scientific software for the High Energy Physics experiment collaborations at CERN.

The candidate will work in the context of the Next Generation Trigger (NGT) project on developing a software library to train neural network models on multi-GPU clusters with support for hardware-aware training and parameter optimization. The library will be built from a pipeline of existing software developed at CERN and from external parties, and it will support the development of neural network models as part of NGT.

As part of this project, the candidate is expected to supervise master students and to work in an international team of researchers from CERN partner institutes, in the context of the FastML community.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

The candidate is expected to have:

• A solid background in professional programming (C++, Python, etc.).
• Knowledge of existing machine learning tools and techniques, including network compression. 
• Fluent in English.

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 STEM (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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 20 May at 23:59 PM CEST.

Job reference: EP-SFT-2024-48-GRAP

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-July-2024

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6212 and 6828 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.

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.

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