Software Engineer for the White Rabbit Project

Job Description

Introduction

• Are you a skilled Software Engineer with experience in the White Rabbit Technology? Join CERN’s Controls Electronics and Mechatronics group, to work on the White Rabbit technology, as part of the White Rabbit Collaboration (WRC) Bureau, and other software developments with an impact.
• White Rabbit (WR) is a CERN-born technology and now an industry standard providing sub-nanosecond synchronisation and deterministic data exchange over a distributed network to hundreds of users around the world. The WRC launched in January 2024 as a friendly community that brings together all stakeholders interested in the WR technology, to identify common interests and development needs, facilitate adoption of the technology and define its future in a collective way.
• As member of the WRC Bureau, you will support the WR user base and develop/maintain the WR technology in a fully open-source way.

Functions

As a Software Engineer in the BE-CEM-EDL section you will: 

• Take an active part in the maintenance and evolution of the WR Technology, defining its annual development plan and setting priorities on bug-fixes, new features and extensions;
• Develop software for the core components of the WR technology, i.e., WR Switch and Node;
• Participate in the development and deployment of WR-based solutions at CERN, including the new timing system for the accelerators;
• Maintain software repositories with dozens of contributors;
• Develop and maintain CI/CD routines;
• Prepare and deliver training material;
• Set up test routines and carry out compliance testing;
• Provide first and second-line support to users.

 Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Computer Science or Engineering. or a related field.

Experience:

Required experience: 

• A record of extensive successful contributions to the software running in the core components of White Rabbit technology: the WR switch and the WR PTP core;
• Hands-on experience with setting-up and diagnosing White Rabbit networks;
• Low-level C and Python programming, including interfacing with hardware modules;
• Development of Linux kernel device drivers, including mainstreamed drivers;
• User support.

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