Are you a motivated computing graduate interested in global scientific infrastructure? Join CERN and contribute to the Computing Resource Information Catalogue (CRIC), a topology service describing computing and storage resources across the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), which connects over 150 computing centres in 40+ countries supporting particle physics research. CRIC is a key component of the WLCG ecosystem. Built as a modular Django web platform with a plugin-based architecture, it aggregates resource information from multiple sources and provides REST APIs and a web interface used in daily LHC computing operations.
You will join the CERN IT Computing for Experiments group and help evolve CRIC by improving its maintainability, extensibility, and operational efficiency. This is a unique opportunity to work on distributed systems supporting one of the world’s largest scientific computing infrastructures.
Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria You are a national of aCERN Member State or Associate Member State. Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani and Lithuanian nationals for positions with a 2026 start date, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
By the application deadline, you have a master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience since graduation or a PhD with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience since graduation. You are not eligible with only a bachelor’s degree.
You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.
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