Mechanical Engineering

Job Description

CERN is an engineering lab that produces physics research, so engineers of all types and with all qualifications are the life blood. We are a facility: building and maintaining the particle accelerators that are the tools of our trade.

Mechanical engineers are key to most parts of an accelerator, from the exotic such as the materials and fluids inside superconducting magnets operating at -270C, to impressive structures that support physics detectors weighing 14’000 tones with micron precision as well as the essential services to build and maintain all of our machines operating 24/7.

Many of the engineering skills you need here can’t be taught at college or university, so you don’t need to be an expert. Early career engineers here will always have projects to call their own, but with specialised training and support to make sure you develop and succeed in the fascinating, high-tech, multi-national world that is CERN.