Postdoc (f/m/d) CMS High Granularity Calorimeter

Organizational unit

Institute for Data Processing and Electronics (IPE)

Job description

You will strengthen the group’s activities, and will play a pivotal role in the development and testing of the read-out chain for the CMS HGCAL. You will be integrated into a growing team of physicists and electrical engineers and will be expected to coordinate student work, and to represent the group at other institutions such as CERN and DESY. Furthermore, you will support QC tests of front-end electronics for HGCAL.

Starting date

as soon as possible

Personal qualification

The required qualifications include the following:

• Experience with modern particle detectors and data analysis techniques
• Hands-on experience in detector testing both in beam tests and in laboratory settings
• Experience with FPGA firmware development or software development for detector applications.
• Previous involvement in large scientific collaboration, i.e.in CMS@CERN

Additional preferred qualifications include the following topics:

• Strong analytical skills as applied to solving problems
• Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team of physicists, electronics engineers, and students.
• Interest in low-latency machine learning implementation on embedded systems
• Knowledge of high-speed optical links
• Experience with CMSSW is welcome.

You must hold a Ph.D. in physics, electrical engineering, or in a related field such as applied computer science even without experience in high-energy physics.

Salary

Salary category 13 TV-L, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.