Junior Software Engineer

Job Description

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/744000002106838