CERN Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire

Embedded Software Engineer

📍 Geneva

Role and responsibilities

Develop and maintain software and firmware for the WR Switch and the WR PTP Core. Maintain GIT repos with dozens of developers. Develop and maintain tools to automate calibration and tests of WR devices, including hardware in Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines. Assist in the development of production tests to be conducted post-hardware manufacturing. Be part of outreach activities in conferences and events to promote WR Technology and the WR Collaboration. Support WR users world-wide. Collaborate with your colleagues in the hardware/software co-design process, where HDL, firmware, Linux device drivers and host applications are developed and reviewed together.

Team / description

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, we are pushing the frontiers of science and technology. Our groundbreaking work brings together not only physicists but also a diverse range of professionals from engineering, technical, scientific, and administrative fields. Together, we foster an environment where innovation and collaboration thrive. Every day, we face exciting new challenges and opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge research that shapes our understanding of the universe. We meet these challenges through the diverse perspectives within our teams, ensuring every contribution is valued and driving our shared sense of inclusion and purpose. Diversity is a core value of CERN since its foundation, and it remains central to our mission and continued success.

Qualifications and Skills

  • Development of embedded Linux software and bare-metal firmware.

  • Working with an embedded Linux distributions running on SoC of AMD/Xilinx FPGA.

  • Measurements with lab tools such as an oscilloscope.

  • Debugging of hardware.

  • Low-level programming in C, including bare-metal.

  • Embedded Linux and Linux Device drivers.

  • Git-based development, code reviews, merge requests and CI pipelines.

  • Python.

  • Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.