European Council for Nuclear Research
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Are you an experienced software developer, or a scientist with a masters degree or PhD interested in the challenges offered by computing for High Energy Physics? Do you want to contribute to the software R&D at the heart of LHC data processing?
Join the EP-SFT group at CERN, responsible for developing and maintaining core software packages used by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. You will become a core C++ software developer in the team developing the CernVM-FileSystem (CVMFS, https://cernvm.web.cern.ch/fs).
CVMFS is a global, read-only filesystem that specializes in delivering software and helps to enable distributed scientific computing across cloud- and supercomputing sites at a global scale.
In particular, you will:
- Improve the performance and usability of the CVMFS client and publisher
- Work with cloud- and supercomputing facilities to make CVMFS more accessible
- Contribute to the baseline support and maintenance tasks of the project.
Your profile
Skills
- Experience with software version control (e.g. git) and build tooling
- Good C++ knowledge. In particular: STL interfaces and algorithms, parallelism, thread-safety.
- Competencies in systems and network programming (e.g libcurl)
- UNIX knowledge, in particular familiarity with filesystem concepts.
Optional but a plus:
- Experience with container technologies (such as docker)
- Knowledge of the Go language
- Experience with HEP experiments code, their software lifecycle and build tooling.
Eligibility criteria:
- You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
- 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.
Source: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/744000030164911
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Source: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/744000030164911
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