As a highly motivated applied physicist with experience in advanced particle detectors for high-energy physics experiments, you will join the CERN CMS Tracker team to develop software and diagnostic tools spanning the integration, checkout, commissioning, and calibration chain of the Tracker detector for the High-Luminosity LHC. In this role, you will contribute to online and offline software, databases, and user interfaces that support the reception testing of detector substructures, validation of large detector sections, and the commissioning and calibration of the final detector once installed at Point 5.

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• You are a national of a CERN 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.