Missions

The engineer insures the installation, the supervision and the maintenance of the data acquisition software of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector deployed offshore Toulon, in collaboration with the DAQ group of the experiment. The person also participates to the support and maintenance of the computing infrastructure of the control room of the Laboratoire Sous-marin Provence Méditerranée and KM3NeT/ORCA detector located in La Seyne-sur-Mer, in collaboration with the operation manager of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector. The engineer also participates to the development of online processing software of the detector data.

Activités

Installation and maintenance of the data acquisition software of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector,
Installation and maintenance of the computing infrastructure of the experiment control room located in La Seyne-sur-Mer,
Participation to the development of online processing and monitoring of the KM3NeT/ORCA detector data,
Insure the interface with experts in case of questions and problems,
Follow and participate to the working meetings of the KM3NeT/ORCA international Collaboration on the topics concerned by the missions of the position,
Apply and make apply the quality insurance plan as well as the health and security rools.

Compétences

Good knowledge of the computing environment as well as languages and software used in high energy physics (Linux, C++, Python, Java),
Mastering of software development methodologies (development, containers, installation, storage),
Mastering of the software life cycle,
Mastering of parallel computing,
Mastering of Database / WEB services architectures,
Enjoy working within an international team,
English level B2 (reference European framework for languages),
Mastering of written and oral presentation techniques,
The possession of a driving licence (permis B) is strongly recommended.

Contexte de travail

Located in the heart of Calanques National Park, on the Luminy campus, the Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM) is a research laboratory common to CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université, hosting about 180 researchers, engineers and PhD students. The laboratory studies subjects from particle physics to astroparticle physics and cosmology, with an important technological component in electronics, mechanics, instrumentation and computing, allowing the conception and construction of high-level detection systems, often used in extreme conditions: in the deep sea, in space or underground. Most of our researches are carried within scientific international collaborations and our contributions are recognized world-wide. The CPPM is engaged to carry ethical research and to promote diversity and inclusion in the working place, and to furnish an administrative and logistic support to new comers, in particular to PhD students (more details here: https://www.cppm.in2p3.fr/web/fr/index.html).

The CPPM plays a major role in the KM3NeT (Kilometre cube Neutrino Telescope) project, which aims to build a submarine neutrino detector at a depth of 2500 meters off Toulon. This detector called ORCA will offer vast scientific perspectives through two main aspects. On the one hand, it will allow to study the quantum properties of neutrinos, on the other hand, it will open a new window on the most violent phenomena of the universe (supernova etc...). The first 15 detection lines have been deployed and the scientific exploitation of the first data has started. The CPPM is in charge of the construction, the installation and the operation of the detector, as well as of the pluridisciplinary submarine infrastructure of the Laboratoire Sous-marin Provence Méditerranée (LSPM : https://www.cppm.in2p3.fr/web/fr/LSPM/). It also contributes to the data analysis and is responsible for the working group "real-time analysis" of KM3NeT. KM3NeT (https://www.km3net.org/) is an international Collaboration of 250 scientists and engineer from more than 50 laboratories in 14 countries.