As successful candidate you will work on Rucio, which is an open source data management platform that has been adopted by two major LHC experiments at CERN (ATLAS and CMS) and also by a handful of Small and Medium Experiments (SHiP, AMS02).

Specifically, you will work on a project that allows better integration between Rucio and the services provided by the CERN IT department, in particular, you will work on the implementation and operation of the Rucio Open Data interfaces. Open Data is part of CERN’s Open Science mission to make research data publicly available and to empower citizens around the world to explore data produced by the LHC.

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.