Your responsibilities

Passionate about technology and interested in being part of the team building the next generation machine learning platforms serving our scientific communities? Join the team responsible to define and run the systems that will serve physicists and data scientists in the next decade.

You will:

• Participate in collecting and prioritizing the use cases from the data science and machine learning communities at CERN.
• Together with those communities, design and implement our next generation platform including functionality for all steps in the machine learning lifecycle, optimal usage of accelerators (GPUs and others), integration with public cloud services, hybrid deployments.
• Work closely with upstream projects such as Kubernetes, Kserve, Kubeflow and many others to ensure the long term sustainability of our systems. You will be expected to participate in regular project meetings and present our work at large conferences such as Kubecon.
• Ensure operations and end user support for the multiple components in the system.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Good knowledge of cloud native technologies, particularly Kubernetes.
• Experience with Linux system administration.
• Experience with machine learning libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, ...) and platforms (Kubeflow, MLFlow, ...) would be an advantage.
• 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 maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computing Engineering, Computer Science (or a related field) by the application deadline.
• Your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.

Job closing date: 19 January at 23:59 PM (midnight) CET.

Job reference: IT-PW-PI-2023-45-GRAE

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

Target start date: 01-May-2024

Documents required to complete your application:

• A CV
• A scanned PDF of your most recent relevant qualification

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5119 and 5631 Swiss Francs (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.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.