Junior Software Engineer - Tenders Global

Junior Software Engineer

European Council for Nuclear Research

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Your responsibilities

Are you a recently-graduated scientist interested in contributing to scientific software, or a software engineer keen on diving into the challenges of High Energy Physics data processing? Do you like intuitive, simple and powerful interfaces? Join the ROOT team (https://root.cern) and become a core contributor to the software R&D at the heart of LHC data processing.

In particular, you will:

  • Improve the usage and feel of ROOT as a Python package.
  • Improve the ergonomics of Python interfaces offered by ROOT statistics and analysis tools such as histograms, graphs or RDataFrame.
  • Contribute to the baseline support and maintenance tasks of the project.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

The following list of skills (in order of priority) characterises the ideal candidate: 

  • Experience with software version control (e.g. git)
  • Knowledge of the C++ language: how to write, compile and run programs; developing code for a package; concepts of thread-safety
  • Python knowledge and experience with writing code for a repository

Optional but a plus:

  • Basic knowledge of Python packages for distributed analysis (e.g. Dask, PySpark, Ray)
  • Experience with using ROOT
  • Experience with HEP experiments code, their data lifecycle and analysis workflows

Eligibility criteria:

  • You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
  • By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in STEM (or a related field) and 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.

Source: https://www.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/744000010033447

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