Detector Physicist

Vor 2 Tagen

Genf, Schweiz Beams Vollzeit
  • Full-time
Job Description

Your responsibilities

We are looking for a motivated candidate to help integrate new front-end electronics into advanced detector systems for future high-energy physics experiments. This role requires a mix of skills in both detector technology and analog electronics, with a focus on optimizing how detectors work with their electronics to improve performance. The work will primarily involve enhancing signal quality and reducing noise, both critical to ensuring high-performance detection in experimental environments.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Electronics Integration: Explore new methods for integrating pixel-based front-end electronics with detector systems, including:
    • Investigating the use of Timepix4 and other advanced technologies.
    • Exploring wafer-scale active silicon readout planes.
  • Enhancing Detector Systems: Work with advanced manufacturing processes to integrate electronics into specialized detector technologies (e.g., uRWELL and Micromegas detectors).
  • Prototype Development: Contribute to the development and integration of innovative front-end electronics for tracking, triggering, and timing applications in particle detectors.
  • Performance Testing: Participate in experiments and test beams to assess the performance of detectors under real-world conditions, which will be critical for future experiments.
  • DAQ System Support: Help develop and integrate Data Acquisition (DAQ) systems to effectively collect and analyze data from detectors, improving the group's ability to evaluate new technologies.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with a community of electronics experts, benefiting from shared developments and research tools that can support your work.

Your profile

Skills

  • Knowledge and experience with particle detectors, particularly gaseous detectors.
  • Knowledge of signal induction and coupling.
  • Expertise on analog electronics and integration in particle detectors.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
  • Fluent in English; the ability to work in French would be an advantage.
  • You have a professional background in Physical Sciences, Engineering, Technology (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

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week.

This position involves:

  • Participation in a regular stand-by duty, including nights, Sundays, and official holidays.
  • Work during nights, Sundays, and official holidays.
  • Work in Radiation Areas.
  • Interventions in underground installations.
  • Residence in the immediate vicinity of the Organization's installations.
  • Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job reference: EP-DT-DD-2024-205-GRAP

Field of work: Applied Physics

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 the 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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