Job Description

Your obligations

Are you a passionate developer who likes to deal with difficult issues that assist advance fundamental science? Do you get pleasure from working with trendy applied sciences? Then come be part of us to develop new firmware and software program for the real-time knowledge processing system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, one of many main detectors on the LHC.

At CMS, we face the duty of processing collisions between proton bunches at as much as 40 MHz, which might generate an immense knowledge price. Our level-1 (L1) set off, using customized firmware logic in lots of of FPGAs, selects promising occasions in microseconds for additional detailed evaluation. We’re at the moment upgrading this method for the long run high-luminosity part of the LHC.

Considered one of our R&D actions is exploring the potential of a complementary system referred to as L1 Information Scouting, which might analyze an information stream containing all occasions however with simply the coarse grain L1 set off data. Such a system includes FPGA-equipped knowledge acquisition boards receiving knowledge from the L1 set off, performing real-time processing, and transferring it to a pc cluster for additional evaluation.

This R&D is within the broader context of the NextGen Triggers undertaking, a 5-year collaboration between the LHC experiments and the CERN Analysis and Computing Departments to push ahead the use and affect of revolutionary Synthetic Intelligence applied sciences and high-performance computing architectures for the LHC experiments’ set off choice, knowledge processing, and theoretical interpretation.

Duties:

• Growth of firmware for knowledge acquisition boards and software program for real-time processing on a pc cluster.
• Supporting the implementation of prototype physics evaluation on the demonstration system.
• Offering day-to-day supervision of undertaking college students.
• Collaborating with personnel and college students from the CERN CMS L1 set off and knowledge scouting teams.
• Presenting work at conferences and workshops at CERN and past.

Your profile

Abilities and/or information

• Expertise with FPGA firmware growth (Vivado/Vitis HLS, VHDL) and software program growth (C++, python) are desired.
• Familiarity with set off and knowledge acquisition programs and their {hardware}, e.g. excessive pace optical hyperlinks, can be extremely useful.
• Expertise with the next particular software program can be useful: Vivado Design Suite, Vivado/Vitis Excessive Degree Synthesis (HLS), Intel oneAPI / TBB, ROOT, git, gitlab and steady integration processes.
• Primary information of machine studying strategies and instruments can be a plus.
• Sturdy crew collaboration abilities and efficient communication of labor, together with in displays.

Eligibility standards:

• You’re a nationwide of a CERN Member or Associate Member State. A restricted variety of positions are additionally accessible to candidates from Non-Member States.
• You have got an expert background in Physics / Electronics / Laptop Science (or a associated discipline) and have both:
  • a Grasp’s diploma with 2 to six years of post-graduation skilled expertise;
  • or a PhD with not more than 3 years of post-graduation skilled expertise.
• You have got by no means had a CERN fellow or graduate contract earlier than.

Extra Data

Job deadline: 30.04.2024 at 12:00 AM (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: EP-CMG-OS-2024-61-GRAP

Contract period: 24 months, with a doable extension as much as 36 months most.

Goal begin date: 01-June-2024

What we provide

• A month-to-month stipend ranging between 6194 and 6808 Swiss Francs monthly (web of tax).
• Protection by CERN’s complete well being scheme (for your self, your partner and kids), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Relying in your particular person circumstances: set up grant; household, little one and toddler allowances; fee of journey bills firstly and finish of contract.
• 30 days of paid depart per yr.
• On-the-job and formal coaching at CERN in addition to in-house language programs for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Group for Nuclear Analysis, physicists and engineers are probing the elemental construction of the universe. Utilizing the world’s largest and most complicated scientific devices, they examine the essential constituents of matter – basic particles which can be made to collide collectively at near the pace of sunshine. The method offers physicists clues about how particles work together, and offers insights into the elemental legal guidelines of nature. Discover out extra on http://home.cern.

We’re on a Quest. A Journey into discovery like no different. Carry your experience to our distinctive work and develop your information and abilities at tempo. Be part of world-class subject material specialists on distinctive tasks, in a Quest for better information and deeper understanding.

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