CAD – PLM Application Engineer

vor 4 Wochen

Genf, Genf, Schweiz European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) Vollzeit

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description

Your responsibilities

CERN's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system is used to manage CAD data and engineering documentation for the entire accelerator complex as well as experiments of the Organization. We are now in a challenging project to replace the CAD data management tool with a modern PLM platform, simplifying the existing landscape of heterogenous applications. You will be a member of the PLM Service team providing CERN's engineering community with a wide range of applications and in particular CAD support in an integrated engineering data management environment.

In the areas of Design data management with the PLM and mechanical CAD usage (mainly CATIA V5), you will:

  • Provide technical expertise and advice, disseminating best practices and resolving problems
  • Contribute to documentation and new working procedures
  • Continuously improve the contextual information for our own AI assistant chatPLM (based on a locally hosted Large Language Model) with new information coming from various sources like support tickets or updated release notes as we improve our platform
  • Exchange with key-users to analyse and formulate needs, develop design specifications with high-level data and process models
  • Perform validation testing of the systems and the developed features

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

  • Professional experience using one or several mechanical 3D CAD tools, such as CATIA V5 or similar (Creo, Siemens NX, etc.)
  • Knowledge of needs and requirements analysis, scripting and automation
  • Genuine interest in helping, sharing knowledge and training others
  • Excellent communication and problem solving 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.
  • You have a professional background in 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.


Additional Information

Job closing date: at 23:59 PM CET.

Job reference: EN-IM-PLM GRAP

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



Target start date: 01-February-2024

This position requires:

  • Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

What we offer

  • A monthly stipend ranging between 6194 and 6808 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

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