Converter Controls Architecture Engineer (SY-EPC-CCE-2025-259-GRAE)

Study converter digital control architectures for the next generation particle accelerator (the Future Circular Collider – FCC), creating a model, and a parameterised scenario building tool to compare architectures.

Your results will be used to select the most suitable control philosophy for power converters for the FCC, optimising dependability, versus capital investment (CAPEX) and ongoing operational costs (OPEX)

Your responsibilities

Key Tasks:

• Work with power converter experts, build a picture for the total number, and types of converters in the FCC.
• Work with today's operations information, derive the reliability metrics for the converter control systems.
• Build a parameterised model, deriving CAPEX, OPEX and dependability.
• Use the model to expand upon architectures, and to extract scenarios.
• Work with others, across the organisation, to create an exhaustive model of the FCC control system and major equipment elements.

Your profile

Experience:

• Basic understanding of dependability: Methods to quantify availability, perform sensitivity analysis, and identify weaknesses.
• Experience in programming: e.g. Python for building the tool.
• Familiarity with analysis & statistics: Carry out sensitivity analyses and interpret parameter spaces.

Skills:

• Writing test reports;
• Presenting results;
• Working as part of a team;
• Knowledge of Python;
• Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the basics of the other language.

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Electronic/Systems/Electrical Engineer (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
• Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.