A PhD student position in experimental ultra-high precision molecular spectroscopy is available at the LERMA, CNRS – Observatoire de Paris – Sorbonne Université, Paris. Title: “High-Precision laser spectroscopy of ozone in the UV for atmospheric applications”. If interested, please contact Christof JANSSEN christof.janssen@upmc.fr. For more details, see the Job description.

A 3-year Instrumentation engineer (M/W) position is available at the SYRTE (Observatoire de Paris) to work on the Horizon Europe project “Qu-Test”. Such a project aims to create an open infrastructure supporting the European industry for the characterization and testing of components, subsystems and instruments exploiting quantum technologies. 

Application Deadline : 15 June 2023. For more details, please see the job description here.

A 3-year Engineer or Physicist position in time & frequency, opto-electronics, laser physics or telecommunication is available at the Royal Observatory of Belgium. The Goal: development of time and frequency dissemination through the Belgium optical fiber networks. If interested, please send a cv and a motivation letter to Pascale Defraigne with a copy to Bruno Bertrand at the latest on May 31, 2023. For more details, see the job description here Job-offer_BOOSTED.

The BIPM (International Bureau of Weights and Measures) invites applications for a one-year secondment position for “Time and Frequency Capacity Building Coordinator”. Applications should be sent by 31st May 2023 (23:59 Paris time) to Patrizia Tavella. Starting date: Beginning September 2023. See more information here.

A PhD thesis offer is available at LAAS-CNRS, MOST team (Toulouse, France). Title : “Génération de paires de qubits intriqués à partir de résonateurs optiques fibrés”. The thesis will be co-directed by Olivier Llopis (LAAS-CNRS) and Benoit Chalopin (LCAR). Interested candidates should contact O. Llopis (llopis@laas.fr), B. Chalopin (benoit.chalopin@irsamc.ups-tlse.fr), A. Fernandez (afernand@laas.fr). For more information, please see the Job description and Apply here.

The BIPM seeks to recruit a Software Engineer with knowledge in scientific algorithms, software development, and data analysis to support the generation and publication of the timing products within the Time Department. Full-time 5 year fixed-term contract (with possibility of tenure). Application deadline is May 21st, 2023 (23h59 Paris time). If interested, applications should be sent to recruitment@bipm.org. For more information, please see the Job description here.

« Contrat d’alternance au CNES pour 1 ou 2 ans. La personne recrutée effectuera ses activités au sein du laboratoire Temps-Fréquence du CNES à Toulouse. Elle contribuera activement au développement d’un banc de test qui permettra de valider des concepts, des algorithmes et des méthodes de synchronisation dans un contexte d’essaim de satellites. Les personnes candidates doivent  postuler directement sur le site de l’annonce : ici.

Date de début : Septembre 2023

Here in France there is a new initiative called the Chaire Professeur Junior (CPJ). The CPJs are intended for researchers in the first part of their career, with a strong potential to manage and lead a research team, as well as to participate in national, European or international projects. Once hired, the person would be on a tenure-track-like system. After 3 to 6 years they would become a University Professor, or a CNRS Directeur de Recherche.

The Artemis Laboratory in Nice, France has a CPJ position for the development of high power and stabilizer laser systems for gravitational-wave detectors. The position comes with a start-up package of 350k€. See
https://artemis.oca.eu/images/Artemis/pdf_artemis/CPJ_2023_ARTEMIS-FR-EN.pdf
for a description of the position. For this position at Artemis, the hired person would become a CNRS Directeur de Recherche after tenure. The application procedure can be found at:
https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/rejoignez-le-cnrs-la-liste-des-37-postes-de-chaires-de-professeur-junior

The application deadline is April 14.

Please contact me (nelson.christensen@oca.eu) if you need more information or would like to discuss.