The superconductor laboratory in CERN's Magnets, Superconductors and Cryostats Group is a leading test facility, having qualified thousands of kilometres of Nb3Sn, Nb Ti and MgB2 wire and cable for the High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC project) at 1.9-4.3 K. To equip the laboratory to characterise and qualify superconductors meeting the needs of accelerator magnets for proposed future circular colliders, significant upgrades are planned, including new critical current test stations for measurements at or above 18 T.

This project will play a key role in implementing these upgrades, including:

• Consolidating magnetization and inter-strand resistance measurement systems
• Commissioning new superconducting magnets and critical current test stations
• Coordination of cryogenic infrastructure upgrades

Skills and/or knowledge

• Electromagnetic testing of superconductors (e.g. critical current, magnetometry); design and production of test equipment; cryogenics; data acquisition development; scripting for data analysis;

You have a professional background in Electrical Engineering, Physics (or a related field) and have either:

• a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
• or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.