Software Engineer for CERNBox (IT-SD-GSS-2026-174-GRAP), CERN QUEST graduate programme

CERN is hiring a Software Engineer for CERNBox, the cloud storage used by the whole CERN community. It is a graduate position in the QUEST programme, funded by the EOSC4ALL project of the European Commission, and sits in the Storage and Data Management Group. You will help make CERNBox interoperable with research infrastructures across Europe through the Open Cloud Mesh standard, make it easy to deploy with Kubernetes, and prototype AI features to help users find their data. Prior AI/ML experience is welcome but not required. It suits recent graduates in computer science, engineering or a related field who are nationals of a CERN Member or Associate Member State. You need a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of professional experience, or a PhD with up to 3 years, and you must never have held a CERN fellow or graduate contract. Experience with Go, Linux and a frontend framework such as Vue.js helps. CERN says you don't need to tick every box if you are motivated to learn. The net stipend is CHF 6372 or 7004 a month, depending on your degree. You also get 30 days of paid leave, health insurance, a relocation package and training including language classes. The contract lasts 24 months, extendable to 36, with a target start of 1 February 2027. The work is fully onsite. Applications close on 29 November 2026 at 23:59 CET. Use the "I'm interested" button on the CERN job page to apply.