Open Position Systems and Infrastructure Administrator (IT) in Technical Division Group

Opening Date: July 17, 2026

Closing Date: Until Filled

Ref:2026-34_Technical Division_IT

About IFAE

The Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) is a public consortium of Generalitat de Catalunya, the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, a public university) whose main goal is to carry out research and to contribute to the development of high energy physics from a theoretical, experimental and technological point of view. IFAE has the status of a “University Institute" attached to UAB and its premises are within the campus of the university.

About IFAE’s Technical Division

The Technical Division of IFAE is constituted by a multidisciplinary team with the mission to make the scientist’s projects a reality. We oversee the design and development of the mechanics, electronics, and software for the instrumentation required for each project.

IFAE-BIST is the Institute for High Energy Physics (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies)



inside the Barcelona Institute for Science and Technology. At IFAE we conduct experimental and theoretical research at the frontiers of fundamental physics, namely in Particle Physics, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Applied Medical Physics.

We are involved in the ATLAS project at the LHC at CERN, the T2K neutrino experiment in Japan, the MAGIC and the CTA-LST telescopes in La Palma, the Dark Energy Survey project in Chile, the ESA Euclid satellite, and the VIRGO Gravitational Waves experiment and Einstein Telescope, among others. We also work at the cutting edge of detector technology developing pixel detectors for High Energy Physics, telescope cameras, and detectors for medical imaging and other scientific and industrial fields.

Job Description

The selected candidate will participate in the administration and maintenance of the organization’s IT infrastructure, providing second- and third-level support for

📌 Systems and Infrastructure Administrator (Sardañola del Vallés)
🏢 IFAE
📍 Sardañola del Vallés